Clayton Road & Short Avenue

Clayton Road and Short Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in The Battery-Governors Island-Ellis Island-Liberty Island, Manhattan. The corner lies inside the Governors Island Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Medical & Dental Clinic stands 130 feet away. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, three of them parks. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along one of the streets meeting here.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Within a walk
4 places
3 parks and 1 listed historic place, within five minutes

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Clayton Road & Short Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Clayton Road and Short Avenue.

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Soissons Landing 29 docks in all
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10004
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 1
City Council district
1
Police precinct
1
Elevation
10 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Governors Island Historic District.

Seventeen buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Georgian, and mostly built between 1910 and 1964.

  1. Medical & Dental Clinic Designated landmark
    130 feet
  2. Post Hospital Designated landmark
    180 feet
  3. Detachment Barracks, First Army Designated landmark
    210 feet

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 parks
  • 1 listed historic place

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Governors Island Park
    440 feet
  2. Colonels Row Park
    520 feet
  3. Liggett Terrace Park
    1,090 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Castle Williams Listed historic place
    820 feet

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bus stop within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • Homes within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Clayton Road or Short Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYPD, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks and NYC Health, retrieved September 18 – October 3, 2026.