East 8th Street & Avenue B

East 8th Street and Avenue B meet at a three-way junction in the East Village, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Tompkins Square Park is 30 feet away, and De Colores Community Yard & Cultural Center is 280 feet away. The nearest subway, 1 Av, is about nine minutes on foot, for the L. Within a five-minute walk are 51 public places, 21 of them gardens, and 105 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
1 Av
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
580 feet
E 10 St/Avenue B · M8
Within a walk
51 places
21 gardens, 11 religious buildings and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 8th Street & Avenue B Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 1 Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. 1 Av L
    0.4 miles
    L

Next trains at this station

West Side
1 line
  1. L …
Brooklyn
1 line
  1. 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 10 St/Avenue B, 580 feet away, for the M8.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 10 St/Avenue B M8
    580 feet
    M8

Next buses at this stop

  1. M8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 99 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 7 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 7 St & Ave B 69 docks in all
    290 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
    1.8 miles
  2. 169 Ludlow Street Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2022.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2023
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10009
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 3
City Council district
2
Police precinct
9
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Village
Elevation
14 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,900 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 1925.

Since 2014 at least 14 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 177 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the cherry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 20 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2019 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Avenue B

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-2PM

North side of East 8th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of East 8th Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are four Individual Landmarks, and 27 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate. They were mostly built between 1847 and 1879.

  1. Tompkins Square Lodging House Designated landmark
    100 feet
  2. Public School 64 Designated landmark
    410 feet
  3. East 11th Street Bath Designated landmark
    700 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists three works near this corner, the nearest in Tompkins Square Park.

  1. Slocum Disaster Memorial Stele by Bruno Louis Zimm, 1906
    480 feet
  2. Temperance Fountain Fountain by Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1891
    530 feet
  3. Samuel Sullivan Cox Statue by Louise Lawson, 1891
    700 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 51 public places.

  • 21 gardens
  • 11 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 3 parks
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. New Amsterdam School
    830 feet
  2. Earth School
    840 feet
  3. P.S. 064 Robert Simon School
    840 feet
Show all 7
  1. Tompkins Square Middle School
    840 feet
  2. Bank Street College of Education Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,200 feet
  3. The Children's Workshop School
    1,310 feet
  4. Connelly Ctr Education/Holy Child MS School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Tompkins Square Park
    30 feet
  2. Tompkins Square Park Playground
    60 feet
  3. De Colores Community Yard & Cultural Center Garden
    280 feet
Show all 26
  1. Clyde Romero Memorial Garden
    480 feet
  2. La Plaza Cultural-Armando Perez Garden
    480 feet
  3. 6th Street & Avenue B Garden
    530 feet
  4. Earth People Garden
    590 feet
  5. La Casita Garden
    650 feet
  6. Carmen Pabon Del Amanecer Jardin Garden
    710 feet
  7. Creative Little Garden
    770 feet
  8. 6BC Botanical Garden
    810 feet
  9. Flower Door Garden
    820 feet
  10. Toyota Childrens Learning Garden (Coradan Evaeden) Garden
    850 feet
  11. Joseph C. Sauer Park
    920 feet
  12. 11 BC Serenity Garden
    990 feet
  13. Firemen's Memorial Garden
    990 feet
  14. Down to Earth Garden
    990 feet
  15. Sam & Sadie Koenig Garden
    1,010 feet
  16. 9th St Community Garden Park
    1,040 feet
  17. Francisco “Pancho” Ramos Community Garden
    1,040 feet
  18. Joseph C. Sauer Park Playground
    1,060 feet
  19. Vamos A Sembrar Garden
    1,070 feet
  20. Green Oasis Community Garden / Gilbert's Garden
    1,070 feet
  21. Community Garden Association Garden
    1,080 feet
  22. El Sol Brillante Jr. Garden
    1,240 feet
  23. Yu Suen Garden
    1,240 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Christodora House Listed historic place
    390 feet
  2. Charlie Parker Residence Listed historic place
    430 feet
  3. Tompkins Square Library Landmark
    770 feet
Show all 5
  1. Eleventh Street Methodist-Episcopal Chapel Listed historic place
    920 feet
  2. Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space Museum
    1,230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Brigid Church St Emeric House of worship
    90 feet
  2. Graffiti E 7 St Baptist Church House of worship
    450 feet
  3. Christian Missionary Church House of worship
    1,050 feet
Show all 6
  1. Emmanuel Spanish Baptist Church House of worship
    1,120 feet
  2. St Nicholas of Myra Orthodox Church House of worship
    1,210 feet
  3. Citylight Church House of worship
    1,250 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Tompkins Square Park Mini Pool Swimming pool
    440 feet

Fire and police

  1. Police Service Area #4 Police station
    1,060 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. 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 105 places to eat and 18 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Avenue B or East 8th Street.

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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.