FDR Drive & South Street

FDR Drive and South Street meet at a six-way junction in Chinatown-Two Bridges, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 43 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. In 2025, 161 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Lillian D Wald Playground is 430 feet away, and Orchard Collegiate Academy is 1,260 feet away. The nearest subway, East Broadway, is about nine minutes on foot, for the F. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, five of them parks.

Safety record
18 hurt
43 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
East Broadway
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
970 feet
Madison St/Montgomery St · M22
Within a walk
21 places
5 parks, 5 schools and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
FDR Drive & South 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, 970 feet away, for the M22.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. M22 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Montgomery Street.

  • 14 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
    890 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive northbound, 820 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
    160 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 43 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 18 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2023

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 161 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,676th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 251 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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)
Chinatown-Two Bridges
Elevation
11 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • One of the streets is 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 27 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the pitch pine and the swamp white oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 14 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2016 and November 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Montgomery Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Montgomery Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of South Street

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 184m Shuang Wen School
    460 feet
  2. University Neighborhood High School
    910 feet
  3. Manhattan Charter School II School
    1,260 feet
Show all 5
  1. Orchard Collegiate Academy School
    1,260 feet
  2. University Neighborhood Middle School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. East River Waterfront Esplanade Park
    under 10 feet
  2. Pier 42 Park
    130 feet
  3. John V. Lindsay East River Park
    180 feet
Show all 10
  1. Lillian D Wald Playground
    430 feet
  2. Pier 42 Playground
    590 feet
  3. Vladeck Houses Community Garden - Vladeck Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    730 feet
  4. Cherry Clinton Playground
    730 feet
  5. Vladeck Park
    970 feet
  6. Corlears Hook Park
    1,190 feet
  7. Vladeck Park Playground
    1,280 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Basketball City Public space
    140 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 4 Ambulance station
    850 feet

Libraries, museums and history

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

Community centers and public services

  1. Two Bridges Community Center
    520 feet
  2. Older adult center at 334 Madison Street Older adult center
    1,300 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 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, Montgomery Street or South Street.

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