East 17th Street & Rutherford Place

East 17th Street and Rutherford Place meet at a four-way crossing in Gramercy, Manhattan. The corner lies inside the Stuyvesant Square Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. St. John the Baptist House stands 100 feet away, and Manhattan Korean Presbyterian Church is 120 feet away. The nearest subway, 3 Av, is about five minutes on foot, and eight subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 39 public places, 14 of them schools, and 44 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
3 Av
1,270 feet · 5 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
360 feet
2 Av/E 17 St · M15
Within a walk
39 places
14 schools, 10 religious buildings and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 17th Street & Rutherford Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 3 Av, 1,270 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 8 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 3 Av L
    1,270 feet
    L

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 1 Av L
    0.3 miles
    L
  2. 14 St-Union Sq 4, 5, 6, L, N, Q, R, W
    0.4 miles
    4 5 6 L N Q R W

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 2 Av/E 17 St, 360 feet away, for the M15.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. M15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at Avenue C, 1 mile by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 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
25 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 5,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 137 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 14 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

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

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on East 17th Street (north side).

South side of East 17th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Rutherford Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Rutherford Place

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 103758.

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 85 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. St. John the Baptist House Designated landmark
    100 feet
  2. The St. George Memorial House Designated landmark
    320 feet

Monuments and public art

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

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 39 public places.

  • 14 schools
  • 10 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 2 hospitals
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Friends Seminary School · landmark
    390 feet
  2. The Jack and Jill School at St. George's Church Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · landmark
    600 feet
  3. Vivvi 16 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    880 feet
Show all 18
  1. Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day High School
    890 feet
  2. Academy for Software Engineering School
    920 feet
  3. Gramercy Arts High School
    920 feet
  4. International High School at Union Square School
    920 feet
  5. Success Academy Charter School - Union Square School
    920 feet
  6. The High School for Language and Diplomacy School
    920 feet
  7. Union Square Academy for Health Sciences School
    920 feet
  8. Beth Israel Medical Center College
    970 feet
  9. Beginnings Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,090 feet
  10. M.S. 255 Salk School of Science School
    1,100 feet
  11. P.S. 040 Augustus Saint-Gaudens School
    1,100 feet
  12. Learningspring School
    1,100 feet
  13. High School for Health Professions and Human Services School
    1,140 feet
  14. Institute for Collaborative Education School
    1,140 feet
  15. P.S. M226 School
    1,140 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Stuyvesant Square Park
    40 feet
  2. Augustus St. Gaudens Playground
    800 feet
  3. Peter's Field
    1,050 feet

Plazas and public spaces

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

Health care

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

Libraries, museums and history

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

Houses of worship

  1. Manhattan Korean Presbyterian Church Landmark
    120 feet
  2. East End Temple House of worship
    130 feet
  3. St George Episc Church Landmark · listed historic place
    180 feet
Show all 8
  1. St Marys Byzantine Church House of worship
    610 feet
  2. St John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church House of worship
    620 feet
  3. Christ Lutheran Church House of worship
    1,170 feet
  4. Holy Trinity Slovak Lutheran Church House of worship
    1,210 feet
  5. Brotherhood Synagogue Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,240 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,050 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Westside Market Supermarket
    570 feet
  2. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. D'Agostino Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,130 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,240 feet
  3. CVS 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 44 places to eat and ten food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 17th Street or Rutherford 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.