East Houston Street & Orchard Street

East Houston Street and Orchard Street meet at a three-way junction in the East Village, Manhattan. The corner is also named Peretz Square by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. First Park is 320 feet away, and Anshe Slonim Synagogue stands 800 feet away. The nearest subway, 2 Av, is about a minute on foot, and seven subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 30 public places, five of them gardens, and 181 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
2 Av
340 feet · 1 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
360 feet
East Houston St/1 Av · M21
Within a walk
30 places
5 gardens, 5 religious buildings and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East Houston Street & Orchard Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 2 Av, 340 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 7 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 2 Av F
    340 feet
    F

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. F …
Downtown
1 line
  1. F …

Also within a walk

  1. Delancey St-Essex St F, J, M, Z
    0.3 miles
    F J M Z
  2. Broadway-Lafayette St/Bleecker St 6, B, D, F, M
    0.4 miles
    6 B D F M

Bus

The nearest bus stop is East Houston St/1 Av, 360 feet away, for the M21.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. East Houston St/1 Av M21 · Shelter
    360 feet
    M21
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M21 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 69 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 1 St & 1 Ave 75 docks in all
    430 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, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    1.7 miles
  2. 169 Ludlow Street Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    1,160 feet
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10002
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 3
City Council district
1 and 2 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
7 and 9 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Village
Elevation
33 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Peretz Square, a co-naming enacted on June 3, 1952 (Local Law 64 of 1952).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 4,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 60 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the green ash and the Japanese zelkova.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Peretz Square.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 21 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2019 and May 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

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

South side of East Houston Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING FRI-SUN MIDNIGHT-6AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

East side of Orchard Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING 7PM-7AM ALL DAYS
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Orchard Street

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-MIDNIGHT EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING MIDNIGHT-6AM ALL DAYS

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 101077, 104025 and 107607.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 24 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Art Deco. They were mostly built between 1869 and 1936.

  1. First Houses Designated landmark
    590 feet
  2. Anshe Slonim Synagogue Designated landmark
    800 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Large Coqui Sculpture by Tom Otterness, 2007
    520 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 30 public places.

  • 5 gardens
  • 5 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 4 playgrounds
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 8 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 020 Anna Silver School
    920 feet
  2. Cascades High School
    1,170 feet
  3. Forsyth Satellite Academy School
    1,170 feet
Show all 6
  1. Pathways Children's Services School
    1,210 feet
  2. Escuela Hispana Montessori Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,220 feet
  3. Nord Anglia International School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Peretz Square
    70 feet
  2. First Park
    320 feet
  3. First Park Playground
    370 feet
Show all 12
  1. ABC Playground
    540 feet
  2. Sara D. Roosevelt Park
    790 feet
  3. First Street Garden
    810 feet
  4. Children's Magical Garden
    1,060 feet
  5. Hope Garden
    1,080 feet
  6. Liz Christy Garden
    1,080 feet
  7. Houston St Playground
    1,180 feet
  8. McKinley Playground
    1,230 feet
  9. Dorothy Strelsin Memorial Garden (Suffolk St. - Committee of Poor People) Garden
    1,260 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Substation #409 (IND) Listed historic place
    710 feet
  2. New York City Marble Cemetery Listed historic place
    1,040 feet
  3. First Roumanian-American Congregation Synagogue Listed historic place
    1,070 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Anthology Film Archives Arts or cultural center
    1,130 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Orthodox Cathedral Holy Virgin Protection Church Landmark
    900 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at Meltzer Towers Older adult center
    440 feet
  2. Older adult center at 189 Allen Street Older adult center
    710 feet
  3. YMCA Chinatown Houston Street Center Recreation center
    1,230 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,280 feet
  2. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    80 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 181 places to eat and 20 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East Houston Street or Orchard 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, NYC Records, NYCHA, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.