East 4th Street & Bowery

East 4th Street and Bowery meet at a four-way crossing in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. The corner is also named Frances Goldin Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 19 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Beethoven Maennerchor Hall stands 260 feet away, and the Ukrainian Museum is 790 feet away. The nearest subway, Astor Pl, is about five minutes on foot, and eight subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 40 public places, ten of them listed historic places, and 138 places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
19 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Astor Pl
1,260 feet · 5 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Bowery/E 4 St · M103
Within a walk
40 places
10 listed historic places, 6 religious buildings and 12 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 4th Street & Bowery Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 8 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Astor Pl 6
    1,260 feet
    6

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. 6 …
Downtown
1 line
  1. 6 …

Also within a walk

  1. Broadway-Lafayette St/Bleecker St 6, B, D, F, M
    0.3 miles
    6 B D F M
  2. 8 St-NYU R, W
    0.3 miles
    R W

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Untitled” (1986) by Milton Glaser at the Astor Pl station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bowery/E 4 St, 100 feet away, for the M103.

  • 25 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bowery/E 4 St M103
    100 feet
    M103

Next buses at this stop

  1. M103 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on East 4th Street.

  • 150 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 8 of them on-street corrals
  • 7 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 5 St & Cooper Sq 50 docks in all
    310 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive northbound at FDR Drive & East Houston Street at E Houston Street Pedestrian Overpass, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    1.3 miles
  2. 284 Mott Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 19 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, July 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10003
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 2
City Council district
2
Police precinct
9
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Greenwich Village
Elevation
41 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Frances Goldin Way, a co-naming enacted on July 23, 2023 (Local Law 110 of 2023).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is 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 1889 and 1929.

Trees

NYC Parks records 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 53 signs on these blocks
  • 22 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2020 and August 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on East 4th Street (south side).

East side of Bowery

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of Bowery

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 7:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 7AM-7:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

East side of Cooper Square

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 7:30AM-8AM

West side of Cooper Square

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of East 4th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 6PM-MIDNIGHT EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-MIDNIGHT EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 104107, 105051, 106519 and 116346.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are four Individual Landmarks, and 265 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1844 and 1897.

  1. Beethoven Maennerchor Hall Designated landmark
    260 feet
  2. Seabury Tredwell House Designated landmark
    300 feet
  3. Metropolitan Assembly Rooms Designated landmark
    330 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Cooper Square.

  1. Peter Cooper Statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1897
    680 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 40 public places.

  • 10 listed historic places
  • 6 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 3 theaters or concert halls
  • 2 colleges
  • 14 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Blake Business School Trade or language school
    350 feet
  2. Cooper Union College · listed historic place
    490 feet
  3. Grace Church High School
    740 feet
Show all 10
  1. Learning and Fun Preschool
    810 feet
  2. La Salle Academy School
    820 feet
  3. St George Academy School
    820 feet
  4. Bright Horizons at Noho Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,000 feet
  5. Hebrew Union Coll - Jewish Inst College
    1,100 feet
  6. Manhattan School for Career Development School
    1,150 feet
  7. Nord Anglia International School
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Manuel Plaza Park
    240 feet
  2. Cooper Triangle
    560 feet
  3. Albert's Garden
    820 feet
Show all 4
  1. Liz Christy Garden
    1,070 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Cooper Square Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    430 feet
  2. Public space at Astor Place Public space
    1,100 feet
  3. Astor Place Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,240 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. House at 37 East 4th St. Listed historic place
    270 feet
  2. Merchant's House Museum
    310 feet
  3. Old Merchant's House (Seabury-Tredwell House) Listed historic place
    390 feet
Show all 12
  1. Devinne Press Building Listed historic place
    510 feet
  2. Bouwerie Lane Theater Listed historic place
    580 feet
  3. New York Marble Cemetery Listed historic place
    740 feet
  4. Building at 376-380 Lafayette Street Listed historic place
    770 feet
  5. The Ukrainian Museum
    790 feet
  6. Lagrange Terrace Listed historic place
    1,140 feet
  7. Daniel Leroy House Listed historic place
    1,260 feet
  8. Astor Place Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    1,280 feet
  9. Robbins & Appleton Building Listed historic place
    1,290 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. New York Theatre Workshop Theater or concert hall
    450 feet
  2. Public Theater Theater or concert hall · listed historic place
    880 feet
  3. Astor Pl Theatre Theater or concert hall
    970 feet
Show all 4
  1. Anthology Film Archives Arts or cultural center
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St George Ukrainian Catholic Church House of worship
    740 feet
  2. Cityvine Church Listed historic place
    810 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 33/Ladder 9 Fire station · landmark · listed historic place
    380 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    850 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,230 feet
  3. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    1,250 feet
  2. H Mart Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Wegmans Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,190 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 138 places to eat and 13 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Bowery, Cooper Square or East 4th 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 Records, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.