Greenwich Street & Battery Place

Greenwich Street and Battery Place meet at a three-way junction in Financial District-Battery Park City, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. International Mercantile Marine Company Building, one of ten Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 170 feet away, and Interborough Rapid Transit System, Battery Park Control House stands 270 feet away. The nearest subway, Bowling Green, is about a minute on foot, for the 4 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 46 public places, seven of them schools, and 59 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bowling Green
110 feet · 1 min on foot · 4, 5
Nearest bus stop
80 feet
Greenwich St/Battery Pl · BxM18
Within a walk
46 places
9 public spaces, 7 schools and 14 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Greenwich Street & Battery Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bowling Green, 110 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 12 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bowling Green 4, 5
    110 feet
    4 5

Next trains at this station

Uptown
2 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. 5 …
Downtown
2 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. 5 …

Also within a walk

  1. Whitehall St-South Ferry 1, R, W
    620 feet
    1 R W
  2. Rector St R, W
    670 feet
    R W

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Greenwich St/Battery Pl, 80 feet away, for the BxM18.

  • 29 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Greenwich St/Battery Pl BxM18
    80 feet
    BxM18

Next buses at this stop

  1. BxM18 …

Live arrivals

Battery Place carries a lane DOT records as a shared lane, not a bus-only lane, all day, every day.

Cycling

  • 23 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Broadway & Battery Pl 52 docks in all
    420 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel at Hugh L Carey Tunnel Entrance, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2.6 miles
  2. 1 West Street Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    640 feet
  3. 299 South Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2024
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10004
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 1
City Council district
1
Police precinct
1
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Financial District-Battery Park City
Elevation
11 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,400 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 1902 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 91 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 20 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2025 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Battery Place

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Greenwich Street

  • Metered parking 4 signs 3 HOUR METERED PARKING BUSES ONLY 10AM-3PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Bus layover only 4 signs BUS LAYOVER ONLY 3PM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY NO ENGINE IDLING MAX FINE $2000
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING 10AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 6AM-10AM 3PM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 100504.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Ten buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Art Deco, Beaux-Arts and neo-Renaissance, and built between 1808 and 1931.

  1. International Mercantile Marine Company Building Designated landmark
    170 feet
  2. Interborough Rapid Transit System, Battery Park Control House Designated landmark
    270 feet
  3. Bowling Green Offices Building Designated landmark
    280 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists three works near this corner, the nearest in Battery Park.

  1. Salvation Army Monument Stele, 1952
    110 feet
  2. Walloon Settlers Memorial Stele, 1924
    200 feet
  3. Bowling Green Fountain Fountain, 1992
    270 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 46 public places.

  • 9 public spaces
  • 7 schools
  • 4 colleges
  • 4 trade or language schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 19 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Flatiron School Trade or language school
    380 feet
  2. John V. Lindsay Wildcat Academy Charter School
    460 feet
  3. Nyfa College
    460 feet
Show all 18
  1. Institute of Career Continuity Trade or language school
    460 feet
  2. Mildred Elley-Nyc College
    570 feet
  3. Relay School of Education College
    570 feet
  4. District 2 Pre-K Center at 2-26 Washington Street Pre-K center
    590 feet
  5. Lang School
    790 feet
  6. New York City Charter School of the Arts School
    820 feet
  7. Manhattan Language Trade or language school
    870 feet
  8. Lower Manhattan Community Middle School
    870 feet
  9. Richard R. Green High School of Teaching School
    870 feet
  10. Urban Assembly School of Business for Young Women, The School
    870 feet
  11. The Learning Experience Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,080 feet
  12. P.S. 150 School
    1,110 feet
  13. Center for Hearing and Communication Preschool
    1,130 feet
  14. The King's College
    1,220 feet
  15. NY Inst of Security & Polygraph Sci Trade or language school
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. The Battery Park
    80 feet
  2. Bowling Green Listed historic place
    240 feet
  3. Battery Park City Park
    740 feet
Show all 5
  1. Peter Minuit Plaza in The Battery Park feature
    1,120 feet
  2. Battery Park Playground
    1,160 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 17 Battery Place Public space
    460 feet
  2. Public space at 1 Battery Park Plaza Public space
    740 feet
  3. Pier A Public space
    760 feet
Show all 9
  1. Public space at 17 State Street Public space
    870 feet
  2. Public space at 45 Broadway Atrium Public space
    950 feet
  3. Public space at 1 Exchange Plaza Public space
    1,050 feet
  4. Public space at 1 State Street Plaza Public space
    1,150 feet
  5. Public space at 52 Broadway Public space
    1,220 feet
  6. Public space at Goldman Sachs Public space
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. National Museum of the American Indian Museum · landmark · listed historic place
    460 feet
  2. Giovanni Da Verrazzano Monument Monument or memorial
    530 feet
  3. Charging Bull Statue Public artwork
    650 feet
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  1. Building at 21 West Street Listed historic place
    840 feet
  2. The Sphere Public artwork
    930 feet
  3. City Pier A Listed historic place
    950 feet
  4. American Merchant Mariners Memorial Monument or memorial
    950 feet
  5. Citizens Housing and Planning Counci Research library
    960 feet
  6. Skyscraper Museum
    960 feet
  7. American Bank Note Company Office Building Listed historic place
    1,150 feet
  8. Museum of Jewish Heritage Museum
    1,200 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Elizabeth Ann Seton Shrine Listed historic place
    1,020 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. US Bankruptcy Court Courthouse · landmark · listed historic place
    380 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    350 feet
  2. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    790 feet
  3. Bank of America Bank branch
    840 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    740 feet

Shopping centers

  1. Westfield World Trade Center Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Other places

  1. Battery Park Slip 6 Ferry Landing
    1,090 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 59 places to eat and eight food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Battery Place or Greenwich Street.

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