East 14th Street & Avenue A

East 14th Street and Avenue A meet at a four-way crossing in Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Grace Chapel Clergy Houses, one of two Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 480 feet away, and the Engine 5 firehouse is 1,000 feet away. The nearest subway, 1 Av, is about a minute on foot, for the L. Within a five-minute walk are 27 public places, eight of them gardens, and 93 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
1 Av
70 feet · 1 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
20 feet
E 14 St/Avenue A · M14A SBS, M14D SBS
Within a walk
27 places
8 gardens, 8 religious buildings and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 14th Street & Avenue A Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 1 Av, 70 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  1. 1 Av L
    70 feet
    L

Next trains at this station

West Side
1 line
  1. L …
Brooklyn
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. 3 Av L
    0.4 miles
    L

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Queens of the Night; Superhero Responds” (2021) by Katherine Bradford at the 1 Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 14 St/Avenue A, 20 feet away, for the M14A SBS and M14D SBS.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 14 St/Avenue A M14A SBS, M14D SBS
    20 feet
    M14A SBS M14D SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. M14A SBS …
  2. M14D SBS …

Live arrivals

East 14th Street carries a lane DOT records as a shared lane, not a bus-only lane, 6am to 10pm, every day.

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Ave A & E 14 St 41 docks in all
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at Avenue C, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    1.6 miles
  2. 100 East 15th Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2020
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, September 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10009
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 3
City Council district
2 and 4 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
9 and 13 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village
Elevation
17 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,900 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 1900 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 124 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 74 signs on these blocks
  • 18 different rules
  • 5 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2024 and August 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Avenue A

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY

West side of Avenue A

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of East 14th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 7AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 12 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of East 14th Street

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 103397, 103899 and 106689.

Landmarks and historic districts

Two buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as French Gothic, and built between 1894 and 1896.

  1. Grace Chapel Clergy Houses Designated landmark
    480 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 public places.

  • 8 gardens
  • 8 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Bright Horizons at East Village Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    450 feet
  2. The Eductional Alliance Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    870 feet
  3. East Side Community School
    990 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dias Y Flores Garden
    610 feet
  2. El Sol Brillante Jr. Garden
    940 feet
  3. Lower East Side Playground
    970 feet
Show all 12
  1. Yu Suen Garden
    1,070 feet
  2. Tompkins Square Park
    1,130 feet
  3. East Side Outside Community Garden
    1,130 feet
  4. 11th Street Community Garden
    1,190 feet
  5. Joseph C. Sauer Park
    1,230 feet
  6. Community Garden Association Garden
    1,240 feet
  7. Joseph C. Sauer Park Playground
    1,250 feet
  8. Vamos A Sembrar Garden
    1,250 feet
  9. Down to Earth Garden
    1,300 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Church of the Immaculate Conception and Clergy Houses Listed historic place
    590 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Immaculate Conception Church Landmark
    570 feet
  2. Town & Village Synagogue House of worship
    1,010 feet
  3. St Nicholas of Myra Orthodox Church House of worship
    1,150 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. 14 Street Y Recreation center
    900 feet
  2. Peter Stuyvesant Post Office
    930 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 5 Fire station
    1,000 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,040 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    280 feet
  2. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    420 feet
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    920 feet
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  3. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    90 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 93 places to eat and 16 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 14th Street Loop, Avenue A or East 14th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, 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.