Chambers Street & River Terrace

Chambers Street and River Terrace meet at a four-way crossing in Financial District-Battery Park City, Manhattan. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Hudson River Park is 120 feet away, and P.S. 234 Independence School is 1,220 feet away. The nearest subway, Chambers St, is about seven minutes on foot, and eight subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, four of them parks, and three places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Chambers St
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 1, 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
610 feet
North End Av/Warren St · M20, M22
Within a walk
14 places
4 parks, 4 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Chambers Street & River Terrace Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Chambers St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  • 8 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Chambers St 1, 2, 3
    0.3 miles
    1 2 3

Next trains at this station

Uptown
3 lines
  1. 1 …
  2. 2 …
  3. 3 …
Downtown
3 lines
  1. 1 …
  2. 2 …
  3. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Chambers St/WTC/Park Place/Cortlandt St 2, 3, A, C, E, R, W
    0.4 miles
    2 3 A C E R W

Bus

The nearest bus stop is North End Av/Warren St, 610 feet away, for the M20 and M22.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. North End Av/Warren St M20, M22
    610 feet
    M20 M22

Next buses at this stop

  1. M20 …
  2. M22 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. River Ter & Warren St 69 docks in all
    310 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge at Rose Street, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    1.9 miles
  2. 325 North End Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    730 feet
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2019.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10282
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 1
City Council district
1
Police precinct
1
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Financial District-Battery Park City
Elevation
17 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 2,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1998 and 2006.

Trees

NYC Parks records 53 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the willow oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 25 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2016 and April 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Chambers Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Chambers Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of River Terrace

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of River Terrace

  • No standing 11 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 parks
  • 4 schools
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 dog run
  • 1 library

Schools and child care

  1. Stuyvesant High School
    430 feet
  2. I.S. 289 School
    700 feet
  3. P.S. 89 School
    700 feet
Show all 5
  1. BMCC Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    930 feet
  2. P.S. 234 Independence School
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hudson River Park
    120 feet
  2. Battery Park City Park
    150 feet
  3. Nelson Rockefeller Playground
    610 feet
Show all 8
  1. Washington Market Park
    790 feet
  2. Nelson Rockefeller Park Playground South Playground
    890 feet
  3. Tribeca Dog Run Warren Street Dog run
    1,100 feet
  4. Washington Market Park Playground
    1,180 feet
  5. Tribeca Dog Run Park
    1,230 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Battery Park City Library
    1,150 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    780 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Westfield World Trade Center Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and two food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Chambers Street or River Terrace.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.