Essex Street & Rivington Street

Essex Street and Rivington Street meet at a four-way crossing in the Lower East Side, Manhattan. The corner is also named Morris “Moishe” Cohen Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 51 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Children's Magical Garden is 530 feet away, and Seward Park Community Center is 1,200 feet away. The nearest subway, Delancey St-Essex St, is about a minute on foot, for the F, J, M and Z. Within a five-minute walk are 43 public places, 11 of them schools, and 217 places to eat.

Safety record
30 hurt
51 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Delancey St-Essex St
370 feet · 1 min on foot · F, J, M, Z
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Essex St/Rivington St · M9
Within a walk
43 places
11 schools, 6 religious buildings and 10 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Essex Street & Rivington Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Delancey St-Essex St, 370 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  • 6 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Delancey St-Essex St F, J, M, Z
    370 feet
    F J M Z

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. F …
Brooklyn
4 lines
  1. F …
  2. J …
  3. M …
  4. Z …
Inbound
3 lines
  1. J …
  2. M …
  3. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. 2 Av F
    0.3 miles
    F
  2. Bowery J, Z
    0.4 miles
    J Z

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Shad Crossing, Delancey Orchard” (2004) by Ming Fay at the Delancey St-Essex St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Essex St/Rivington St, 110 feet away, for the M9.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Essex St/Rivington St M9
    110 feet
    M9

Next buses at this stop

  1. M9 …

Live arrivals

Essex Street carries a bus lane, 6am to 3pm, every day.

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Rivington Street.

  • 48 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral
  • 7 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Stanton St & Norfolk St 49 docks in all
    670 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, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2 miles
  2. 107 Essex Street Charging for electric cars, nine Level 2 chargers and four fast chargers
    340 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 51 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 30 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 10 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10002
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 3
City Council district
1
Police precinct
7
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Lower East Side
Elevation
31 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Morris “Moishe” Cohen Way, a co-naming enacted on March 19, 2023 (Local Law 44 of 2023).

The streets

  • Up to four 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. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1900 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 200 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Morris “Moishe” Cohen Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 52 signs on these blocks
  • 16 different rules
  • 5 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2017 and September 2024; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Essex Street

  • Metered parking 6 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Essex Street

  • Metered parking 6 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING FRI-SUN MIDNIGHT-6AM

North side of Rivington Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING W/ MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 103433, 103486 and 104294.

Landmarks and historic districts

Two buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Federal and Gothic, one each, and built between 1830 and 1850.

  1. Anshe Slonim Synagogue Designated landmark
    700 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 43 public places.

  • 11 schools
  • 6 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 5 gardens
  • 5 listed historic places
  • 11 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Lower East Side Preparatory High School
    640 feet
  2. School for Global Leaders School
    640 feet
  3. Elements Nursery Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    730 feet
Show all 17
  1. P.S. 020 Anna Silver School
    710 feet
  2. Elements Preschool Pre-K
    800 feet
  3. University Settlement Society of New York Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K · listed historic place
    960 feet
  4. Cambridge Business Institute Trade or language school
    1,010 feet
  5. Grand St. Settlement Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,110 feet
  6. Essex Street Academy School
    1,120 feet
  7. High School for Dual Language and Asian Studies School
    1,120 feet
  8. Lower Manhattan Arts Academy School
    1,120 feet
  9. New Design High School
    1,120 feet
  10. Urban Assembly Academy of Government and Law, The School
    1,120 feet
  11. Escuela Hispana Montessori Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,160 feet
  12. Manhattan Charter School
    1,200 feet
  13. P.S. 142 Amalia Castro School
    1,200 feet
  14. P.S. 140 Nathan Straus School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Children's Magical Garden
    530 feet
  2. Nathan Straus Playground
    910 feet
  3. ABC Playground
    910 feet
Show all 9
  1. Dorothy Strelsin Memorial Garden (Suffolk St. - Committee of Poor People) Garden
    1,160 feet
  2. Clinton Community Garden (LES) Garden
    1,190 feet
  3. Siempre Verde Garden
    1,210 feet
  4. Sara D. Roosevelt Park
    1,220 feet
  5. M'finda Kalunga Garden
    1,220 feet
  6. Rivington St Playground
    1,230 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Delancey Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,010 feet

Health care

  1. Mount Sinai - Behavioral Health Center Hospital
    1,140 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. First Roumanian-American Congregation Synagogue Listed historic place
    430 feet
  2. Substation #409 (IND) Listed historic place
    670 feet
  3. International Center of Photography Museum
    840 feet
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  1. Lower East Side Tenement Museum
    1,030 feet
  2. Lower East Side Historic District Listed historic place
    1,080 feet
  3. Beth Hamedrash Hagodol Synagogue Listed historic place
    1,230 feet
  4. Tenement Building at 97 Orchard Street Listed historic place
    1,250 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Community center at Lower East Side I Infill Community center
    1,150 feet
  2. Seward Park Community Center
    1,200 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    600 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    740 feet
  3. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    760 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Lidl Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    680 feet
  2. 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 217 places to eat and 32 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Essex Street or Rivington Street.

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