FDR Drive & Montgomery Street

FDR Drive and Montgomery Street meet at a four-way crossing in the Lower East Side, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. John V. Lindsay East River Park is 130 feet away. The nearest subway, East Broadway, is about nine 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
10 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
East Broadway
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
1,020 feet
Madison St/Montgomery St · M22
Within a walk
19 places
5 parks, 5 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
FDR Drive & Montgomery Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  1. East Broadway F
    0.4 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/Montgomery St, 1,020 feet away, for the M22.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Madison St/Montgomery St M22 · Shelter
    1,020 feet
    M22
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M22 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Montgomery Street.

  • 11 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
    940 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive northbound, 760 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
    110 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 10 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

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

The streets

  • One travel lane

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 29 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pitch pine.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 184m Shuang Wen School
    520 feet
  2. University Neighborhood High School
    950 feet
  3. Manhattan Charter School II School
    1,310 feet
Show all 5
  1. Orchard Collegiate Academy School
    1,310 feet
  2. University Neighborhood Middle School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. East River Waterfront Esplanade Park
    under 10 feet
  2. Pier 42 Park
    80 feet
  3. John V. Lindsay East River Park
    130 feet
Show all 9
  1. Lillian D Wald Playground
    480 feet
  2. Pier 42 Playground
    540 feet
  3. Vladeck Houses Community Garden - Vladeck Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    780 feet
  4. Cherry Clinton Playground
    780 feet
  5. Vladeck Park
    1,020 feet
  6. Corlears Hook Park
    1,240 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Basketball City Public space
    90 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 4 Ambulance station
    800 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Gouverneur Hospital Listed historic place
    470 feet
  2. Lower East Side Historic District (Boundary Increase) Listed historic place
    970 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Two Bridges Community Center
    570 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Metro Acres Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.5 miles

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 Montgomery Street.

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