Delancey Street & Essex Street

Delancey Street and Essex Street meet at a four-way crossing in the Lower East Side, Manhattan. The corner is also named Jack Kirby Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 100 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection. In 2026, 127 red-light camera tickets were recorded here through July 26. International Center of Photography Museum is 350 feet away. The nearest subway, Delancey St-Essex St, is about a minute on foot, for the F, J, M and Z.

Safety record
55 hurt
100 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Delancey St-Essex St
90 feet · 1 min on foot · F, J, M, Z
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Delancey St/Essex St · B39, B106, T432
Within a walk
36 places
8 schools, 7 religious buildings and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Delancey Street & Essex Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Delancey St-Essex St, 90 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  • 6 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Delancey St-Essex St F, J, M, Z
    90 feet
    F J M Z

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. F …
Brooklyn
4 lines
  1. F …
  2. J …
  3. M …
  4. Z …
Inbound
3 lines
  1. J …
  2. M …
  3. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. Bowery J, Z
    0.3 miles
    J Z
  2. East Broadway F
    0.3 miles
    F

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Shad Crossing, Delancey Orchard” (2004) by Ming Fay at the Delancey St-Essex St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Delancey St/Essex St, 60 feet away, for the B39, B106 and T432.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Delancey St/Essex St B39, B106, T432
    60 feet
    B39 B106 T432

Next buses at this stop

  1. B39 …
  2. B106 …
  3. T432 …

Live arrivals

Essex Street carries a bus lane, 6am to 3pm, every day.

Cycling

  • 58 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 10 of them on-street corrals
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Suffolk St & Delancey St 62 docks in all
    570 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at FDR Drive & Grand Street, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2.1 miles
  2. 107 Essex Street Charging for electric cars, nine Level 2 chargers and four fast chargers
    350 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 100 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 55 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 20 of those hurt, on foot
  • 7 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection, a designation it applies to corners selected for attention on their injury record. It is not a record of work done.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2008
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, June 2019

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2026 so far, through July 26, 127 red-light camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner.

Every corner with red-light camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10002
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 3
City Council district
1
Police precinct
7
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Lower East Side
Elevation
31 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Jack Kirby Way, a co-naming enacted on January 17, 2026 (Local Law 48 of 2026).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 4,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 542 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Jack Kirby Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 27 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2020 and October 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Delancey Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING W/ MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Delancey Street

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Essex Street

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Essex Street

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING FRI-SUN MIDNIGHT-6AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 103433, 103434 and 103486.

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Classical, and built between 1926 and 1927.

  1. Kehila Kadosha Janina Synagogue Designated landmark
    820 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 36 public places.

  • 8 schools
  • 7 religious buildings
  • 6 day care or pre-K sites
  • 5 listed historic places
  • 2 community centers
  • 8 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Grand St. Settlement Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    610 feet
  2. Essex Street Academy School
    620 feet
  3. High School for Dual Language and Asian Studies School
    620 feet
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  1. Lower Manhattan Arts Academy School
    620 feet
  2. New Design High School
    620 feet
  3. Urban Assembly Academy of Government and Law, The School
    620 feet
  4. Elements Nursery Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    770 feet
  5. Elements Preschool Pre-K
    820 feet
  6. Chinese - American Planning Council Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    970 feet
  7. Lower East Side Preparatory High School
    1,140 feet
  8. School for Global Leaders School
    1,140 feet
  9. Victoria Children's Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,150 feet
  10. P.S. 020 Anna Silver School
    1,200 feet
  11. Bright Horizons at Essex Crossings Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Children's Magical Garden
    1,030 feet
  2. Seward Park
    1,220 feet
  3. Sara D. Roosevelt Park
    1,270 feet
Show all 4
  1. Seward Park Playground
    1,310 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Delancey Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    510 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. International Center of Photography Museum
    350 feet
  2. Lower East Side Tenement Museum
    530 feet
  3. Lower East Side Historic District Listed historic place
    580 feet
Show all 7
  1. Beth Hamedrash Hagodol Synagogue Listed historic place
    730 feet
  2. Tenement Building at 97 Orchard Street Listed historic place
    750 feet
  3. First Roumanian-American Congregation Synagogue Listed historic place
    790 feet
  4. Substation #409 (IND) Listed historic place
    1,160 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Seward Park Community Center
    700 feet
  2. Older adult center at 175 Delancey Street Older adult center
    990 feet
  3. Community center at Lower East Side I Infill Community center
    1,290 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    100 feet
  2. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    260 feet
  3. Bank of America Bank branch
    360 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Lidl Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Metro Acres Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    310 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 194 places to eat and 30 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Delancey Street or Essex Street.

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