FDR Drive & East 4th Walk

FDR Drive and East 4th Walk meet at a four-way crossing in the East Village, Manhattan, at the edge of NYCHA's Wald development. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Wald Playground is 600 feet away. The nearest bus stop, East Houston St/Mangin St, is 590 feet away for the M14D SBS and M21, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, two of them community centers, and one place to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
FDR Drive
560 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
590 feet
East Houston St/Mangin St · M14D SBS, M21
Within a walk
8 places
2 community centers, 2 playgrounds and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
FDR Drive & East 4th Walk Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is East Houston St/Mangin St, 590 feet away, for the M14D SBS and M21.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. East Houston St/Mangin St M14D SBS, M21
    590 feet
    M14D SBS M21

Next buses at this stop

  1. M14D SBS …
  2. M21 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Stanton St & Mangin St 19 docks in all
    1,030 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, 560 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2.5 miles
  2. 169 Ludlow Street Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2019.

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
11 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,900 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 in 1950.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Wald development.

Trees

NYC Parks records 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the holly.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 community centers
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Bard High School Early College School
    830 feet
  2. P.S. 188 the Island School
    910 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. John V. Lindsay East River Park
    580 feet
  2. Wald Playground
    600 feet
  3. Baruch Playground
    1,000 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Baruch Community Center
    770 feet
  2. Riis II Community Center
    1,140 feet
  3. Older adult center at 12 Avenue D Older adult center
    1,160 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and six food stores.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along FDR Drive.

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, NYCHA, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.