FDR Drive & R F Wagner Sr Place

FDR Drive and R F Wagner Sr Place meet at a three-way junction in Chinatown-Two Bridges, Manhattan, at the edge of NYCHA's Smith development. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Fishbridge Garden Dog Run is 530 feet away. The nearest subway, Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St, is about six minutes on foot, and 11 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, five of them schools, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 4, 5, 6, J, Z
Nearest bus stop
370 feet
Saint James Pl/Robert F Wagner Sr Pl · M15, M22
Within a walk
17 places
5 schools, 2 parks and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
FDR Drive & R F Wagner Sr Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines at the nearest station
  • 11 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St 4, 5, 6, J, Z
    0.3 miles
    4 5 6 J Z

Next trains at this station

Uptown
3 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. 5 …
  3. 6 …
Downtown
5 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. 5 …
  3. 6 …
  4. J …
  5. Z …
Brooklyn
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. Fulton St 2, 3, 4, 5, A, C, J, Z
    0.4 miles
    2 3 4 5 A C J Z
  2. City Hall R, W
    0.5 miles
    R W

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Cable Crossing” (1996) by Mark Gibian at the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint James Pl/Robert F Wagner Sr Pl, 370 feet away, for the M15 and M22.

  • 24 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint James Pl/Robert F Wagner Sr Pl M15, M22
    370 feet
    M15 M22

Next buses at this stop

  1. M15 …
  2. M22 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. St James Pl & Pearl St 27 docks in all
    640 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge northbound at Pearl Street & R F Wagner Sr Place, 180 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2.3 miles
  2. 123 Leonard Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 299 South Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

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 2017.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10038
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 3
City Council district
1
Police precinct
5
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Chinatown-Two Bridges

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,200 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 Smith development.

Trees

NYC Parks records 31 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 42 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival, and built between 1792 and 1974.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 schools
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 dog run
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Manhattan Early College School for Marketing and Media Arts School
    730 feet
  2. Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers School
    730 feet
  3. The Urban Assembly Early College High School of Emergency Medicine School
    730 feet
Show all 5
  1. Urban Assembly Maker Academy School
    730 feet
  2. The Peck Slip School Landmark
    1,040 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. FishBridge Park Garden
    530 feet
  2. Fishbridge Garden Dog Run
    530 feet
  3. James Madison Plaza
    610 feet
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  1. East River Waterfront Esplanade Park
    640 feet
  2. Alfred E. Smith Playground
    840 feet
  3. Pearl St Playground
    1,220 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Verizon Building Public space
    520 feet
  2. Brooklyn Bridge Arches Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    810 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Alfred E Smith Recreation Center
    990 feet
  2. Older adult center at 100 Gold Street Older adult center
    1,090 feet

Supermarkets

  1. 55 Fulton Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and two food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along FDR Drive or R F Wagner Sr Place.

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