East 5th Street & Cooper Square

East 5th Street and Cooper Square meet at a three-way junction in the East Village, Manhattan. The corner lies on the edge of the NoHo Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Cooper Square Plaza is 180 feet away, and Cooper Union is 240 feet away. The nearest subway, Astor Pl, is about four minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are 40 public places, ten of them listed historic places, and 150 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Astor Pl
1,010 feet · 4 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
310 feet
Cooper Sq/E 6 St · M103
Within a walk
40 places
10 listed historic places, 7 religious buildings and 12 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 5th Street & Cooper Square Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Astor Pl, 1,010 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 12 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Astor Pl 6
    1,010 feet
    6

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

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

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Cooper Sq/E 6 St, 310 feet away, for the M103.

  • 26 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cooper Sq/E 6 St M103
    310 feet
    M103

Next buses at this stop

  1. M103 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 153 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 10 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
    70 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
    0.4 miles
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10003
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 3
City Council district
2
Police precinct
9
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Village
Elevation
42 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • 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 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese pagoda tree and the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2020 and March 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on Cooper Square (west side).

East side of Cooper Square

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING HOTEL LOADING ZONE

South side of East 5th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 116346.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the NoHo Historic District.

Within 820 feet are eight Individual Landmarks, and 237 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1851 and 1897.

  1. Beethoven Maennerchor Hall Designated landmark
    240 feet
  2. Village Voice Designated landmark
    260 feet
  3. Seabury Tredwell House Designated landmark
    310 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Peter Cooper Statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1897
    430 feet
  2. Alamo Sculpture by Tony Rosenthal, 1967
    790 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
  • 7 religious buildings
  • 4 theaters or concert halls
  • 3 schools
  • 2 colleges
  • 14 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Blake Business School Trade or language school
    170 feet
  2. Cooper Union College · listed historic place
    240 feet
  3. Grace Church High School
    490 feet
Show all 8
  1. Learning and Fun Preschool
    560 feet
  2. La Salle Academy School
    570 feet
  3. St George Academy School
    570 feet
  4. St. John's University Manhattan College
    1,120 feet
  5. Bright Horizons at Noho Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Manuel Plaza Park
    250 feet
  2. Cooper Triangle
    310 feet
  3. Albert's Garden
    1,070 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Cooper Square Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    180 feet
  2. Public space at Astor Place Public space
    850 feet
  3. Astor Place Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    990 feet
Show all 4
  1. Public space at 51 Astor Place Public space
    1,120 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. House at 37 East 4th St. Listed historic place
    260 feet
  2. Merchant's House Museum
    340 feet
  3. Old Merchant's House (Seabury-Tredwell House) Listed historic place
    390 feet
Show all 12
  1. Devinne Press Building Listed historic place
    470 feet
  2. The Ukrainian Museum
    550 feet
  3. Bouwerie Lane Theater Listed historic place
    830 feet
  4. New York Marble Cemetery Listed historic place
    990 feet
  5. Daniel Leroy House Listed historic place
    1,010 feet
  6. Building at 376-380 Lafayette Street Listed historic place
    1,020 feet
  7. Astor Place Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    1,030 feet
  8. Isaac T. Hopper House Listed historic place
    1,200 feet
  9. Hamilton Fish House (Stuyvesant-Fish House) Listed historic place
    1,260 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. New York Theatre Workshop Theater or concert hall
    560 feet
  2. Public Theater Theater or concert hall · landmark · listed historic place
    630 feet
  3. Astor Pl Theatre Theater or concert hall
    790 feet
Show all 4
  1. Orpheum Theatre Theater or concert hall
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St George Ukrainian Catholic Church House of worship
    500 feet
  2. Cityvine Church Listed historic place
    560 feet
  3. Sixth Street Community Synagogue Listed historic place
    1,200 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 33/Ladder 9 Fire station · landmark · listed historic place
    630 feet
  2. 9th Precinct Police station
    1,120 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,000 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,200 feet

Supermarkets

  1. H Mart Supermarket
    1,110 feet
  2. Wegmans Supermarket
    1,180 feet
  3. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    950 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 150 places to eat and 16 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Cooper Square or East 5th Street.

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