FDR Drive & Gouverneur Slip West

FDR Drive and Gouverneur Slip West meet at a three-way junction in the Lower East Side, Manhattan. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. East River Waterfront Esplanade is 220 feet away. The nearest subway, East Broadway, is about ten minutes on foot, for the F. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, five of them parks. About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1940 and 1964, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
East Broadway
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
1,060 feet
Madison St/Gouverneur St · M22
Within a walk
19 places
5 parks, 5 playgrounds and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
FDR Drive & Gouverneur Slip West Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is East Broadway, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  1. East Broadway F
    0.5 miles
    F

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. F …
Brooklyn
1 line
  1. F …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Madison St/Gouverneur St, 1,060 feet away, for the M22.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Madison St/Gouverneur St M22
    1,060 feet
    M22

Next buses at this stop

  1. M22 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 18 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Clinton St & Cherry St 49 docks in all
    1,140 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive northbound, 1,060 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2.8 miles
  2. 299 South Street Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    400 feet

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 August 2019.

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
8 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,300 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 1940 and 1964.

Trees

NYC Parks records 36 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the pitch pine and the swamp white oak.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 parks
  • 5 playgrounds
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 schools
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 184m Shuang Wen School
    710 feet
  2. University Neighborhood High School
    730 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. East River Waterfront Esplanade Park
    220 feet
  2. Pier 42 Park
    370 feet
  3. John V. Lindsay East River Park
    420 feet
Show all 11
  1. Vladeck Houses Community Garden - Vladeck Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    490 feet
  2. Lillian D Wald Playground
    520 feet
  3. Vladeck Park
    730 feet
  4. Pier 42 Playground
    840 feet
  5. Corlears Hook Park
    950 feet
  6. Cherry Clinton Playground
    960 feet
  7. Vladeck Park Playground
    1,040 feet
  8. Sol Lain Plgd Playground
    1,270 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Basketball City Public space
    380 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 4 Ambulance station
    1,090 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Gouverneur Hospital Listed historic place
    180 feet
  2. Lower East Side Historic District (Boundary Increase) Listed historic place
    1,160 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Two Bridges Community Center
    760 feet
  2. Older adult center at 334 Madison Street Older adult center
    1,060 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change, a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along FDR Drive or Gouverneur Slip West.

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.