East 17th Street & Nathan D Perlman Place

East 17th Street and Nathan D Perlman Place meet at a four-way crossing in Gramercy, Manhattan. The corner lies inside the Stuyvesant Square Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The statue “Antonin Dvorak” is 40 feet away, and 14 Street Y is 1,000 feet away. The nearest subway, 1 Av, is about five minutes on foot, and eight subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 34 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 40 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
1 Av
1,260 feet · 5 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
350 feet
2 Av/E 17 St · M15
Within a walk
34 places
10 religious buildings, 8 schools and 11 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 17th Street & Nathan D Perlman Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 1 Av, 1,260 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 8 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 1 Av L
    1,260 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
    0.3 miles
    L
  2. 14 St-Union Sq 4, 5, 6, L, N, Q, R, W
    0.5 miles
    4 5 6 L N Q R W

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 2 Av/E 17 St, 350 feet away, for the M15.

  • 30 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 2 Av/E 17 St M15
    350 feet
    M15

Next buses at this stop

  1. M15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 17 St & 2 Ave 47 docks in all
    300 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at Avenue C, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    1.5 miles
  2. 130 East 18th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Enhanced crossing, May 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10003
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 6
City Council district
2
Police precinct
13
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gramercy
Elevation
20 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 101 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 1 sign on these blocks
  • 1 rule
  • 2 active meters
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in April 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on East 17th Street (north side).

South side of East 17th Street

  • Doctor plates only 1 sign DOCTOR LICENSE PLATES ONLY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 106265.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Stuyvesant Square Historic District.

Within 820 feet are four Individual Landmarks, and 65 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Anglo-Italianate. They were mostly built between 1850 and 1861.

  1. (former) Stuyvesant High School Designated landmark
    440 feet
  2. St. John the Baptist House Designated landmark
    540 feet
  3. Friends' Meeting House Designated landmark
    730 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Stuyvesant Square.

  1. Antonin Dvorak Statue by Ivan Mestrovic, 1997
    40 feet
  2. Peter Stuyvesant Statue by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1941
    420 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 34 public places.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 8 schools
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 hospitals
  • 9 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Beth Israel Medical Center College
    470 feet
  2. High School for Health Professions and Human Services School
    640 feet
  3. Institute for Collaborative Education School
    640 feet
Show all 12
  1. P.S. M226 School
    640 feet
  2. Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day High School
    760 feet
  3. Vivvi 16 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    860 feet
  4. Friends Seminary School · landmark
    890 feet
  5. M.S. 255 Salk School of Science School
    1,080 feet
  6. P.S. 040 Augustus Saint-Gaudens School
    1,080 feet
  7. Learningspring School
    1,090 feet
  8. The Jack and Jill School at St. George's Church Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,110 feet
  9. Philip Xavier Center Trade or language school
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Stuyvesant Square Park
    30 feet
  2. Augustus St. Gaudens Playground
    780 feet
  3. Peter's Field
    1,030 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Gilman Hall Public space
    470 feet
  2. Public space at Park Towers Medical Plaza Public space
    970 feet

Health care

  1. NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital
    250 feet
  2. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai Hospital
    1,230 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Houses at 326, 328 and 330 East 18th Street Listed historic place
    340 feet
  2. Society for the Lying-In Hospital Listed historic place
    500 feet
  3. Stuyvesant Square Historic District Listed historic place
    760 feet

Houses of worship

  1. East End Temple House of worship
    390 feet
  2. Manhattan Korean Presbyterian Church Landmark
    570 feet
  3. St George Episc Church Landmark · listed historic place
    610 feet
Show all 7
  1. St Marys Byzantine Church House of worship
    720 feet
  2. Town & Village Synagogue House of worship
    920 feet
  3. St John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church House of worship
    1,120 feet
  4. Holy Trinity Slovak Lutheran Church House of worship
    1,190 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Peter Stuyvesant Post Office
    850 feet
  2. 14 Street Y Recreation center
    1,000 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    990 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,010 feet
  3. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,140 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Westside Market Supermarket
    1,070 feet
  2. D'Agostino Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    630 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    1,050 feet
  3. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 40 places to eat and ten food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 17th Street or Nathan D Perlman Place.

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