Comfort Road & Owasco Road

Comfort Road and Owasco Road meet at a three-way junction 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. Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church stands 120 feet away. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, five 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
6 places
5 parks and 1 listed historic place, within five minutes

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Comfort Road & Owasco Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Comfort Road and Owasco Road.

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Yankee Ferry Terminal 42 docks in all
    630 feet

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

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Governors Island Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 33 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Georgian, and mostly built between 1878 and 1933.

  1. Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church Designated landmark
    120 feet
  2. Army Young Men's Christian Association (Fort Jay) Designated landmark
    210 feet
  3. Detachment Barracks, First Army Designated landmark
    250 feet

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 parks
  • 1 listed historic place

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. South Battery Park
    380 feet
  2. Parade Ground Park
    490 feet
  3. Governors Island Park · listed historic place
    710 feet
Show all 5
  1. Liggett Terrace Park
    1,110 feet
  2. Colonels Row Park
    1,170 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Block House, The Listed historic place
    1,110 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one food store.

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 18 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Comfort Road or Owasco Road.

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