Duane Street & Staple Street

Duane Street and Staple Street meet at a four-way crossing in Tribeca-Civic Center, Manhattan. The corner lies inside the Tribeca West Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Duane Park is 20 feet away, and Manhattan Borough Command/Battalion 1/Engine 7/Ladder 1 is 1,280 feet away. The nearest subway, Chambers St, is about three minutes on foot, and 13 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, eight of them day care or pre-K sites, and 87 places to eat.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Chambers St
710 feet · 3 min on foot · 1, 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
530 feet
Harrison St/Hudson St · M20
Within a walk
23 places
8 day care or pre-K sites, 3 parks and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Duane Street & Staple Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Chambers St, 710 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  • 13 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Chambers St 1, 2, 3
    710 feet
    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
    1,220 feet
    2 3 A C E R W
  2. Franklin St 1
    0.3 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Harrison St/Hudson St, 530 feet away, for the M20.

  • 29 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Harrison St/Hudson St M20
    530 feet
    M20

Next buses at this stop

  1. M20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 76 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 4 of them on-street corrals
  • 6 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Duane St & Hudson St 44 docks in all
    290 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
    1.6 miles
  2. 123 Leonard Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 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
10013
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 1
City Council district
1
Police precinct
1
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Tribeca-Civic Center
Elevation
14 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 3,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 26 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2016 and April 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Duane Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Duane Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

East side of Staple Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Staple Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Tribeca West Historic District.

Within 820 feet are 14 Individual Landmarks, and 191 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate. They were mostly built between 1860 and 1891.

  1. Schepp Building Designated landmark
    110 feet
  2. American Express Building Designated landmark
    180 feet
  3. (former) New York Hospital Designated landmark
    320 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

  • 8 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 parks
  • 2 colleges
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 schools
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Washington Market School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    300 feet
  2. P.S. 234 Independence School
    960 feet
  3. German School Manhattan School
    1,080 feet
Show all 12
  1. Kindercare Education at Work Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    570 feet
  2. The Jewish Community Project of Lower Manhattan Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    670 feet
  3. Buckle My Shoe Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,000 feet
  4. BMCC Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,100 feet
  5. New York Law School College
    1,150 feet
  6. Tribeca Community School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,190 feet
  7. Borough Manhattan Comm College
    1,260 feet
  8. Bright Horizons at Tribeca Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,280 feet
  9. Reade Street Prep Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Duane Park
    20 feet
  2. Washington Market Park Playground
    340 feet
  3. Washington Market Park
    350 feet
Show all 5
  1. Tribeca Dog Run Warren Street Dog run
    1,040 feet
  2. Tribeca Dog Run Park
    1,100 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Bogardus Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    660 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Chambers Street Subway Station (Dual System IRT) Listed historic place
    810 feet
  2. Cary Building Listed historic place
    1,120 feet
  3. Archive of Contempory Music Research library
    1,200 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 310 Greenwich Street Older adult center
    520 feet

Fire and police

  1. Manhattan Borough Command/Battalion 1/Engine 7/Ladder 1 Fire station
    1,280 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    520 feet
  2. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    690 feet
  3. TD Bank Bank branch
    810 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    1,190 feet
  2. Gourmet Garage Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

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

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 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 87 places to eat and seven food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 18 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Duane Street or Staple Street.

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