Hester Street & Allen Street

Hester Street and Allen Street meet at a four-way crossing in Chinatown-Two Bridges, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Latin Amer Pentecostal Church is 490 feet away. The nearest subway, East Broadway, is about four minutes on foot, and six subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 43 public places, 15 of them religious buildings, and 164 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
East Broadway
1,150 feet · 4 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
Allen St/Hester St · M15 SBS
Within a walk
43 places
15 religious buildings, 9 schools and 10 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hester Street & Allen Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is East Broadway, 1,150 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 6 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. East Broadway F
    1,150 feet
    F

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Grand St B, D
    1,160 feet
    B D
  2. Delancey St-Essex St F, J, M, Z
    0.3 miles
    F J M Z

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Allen St/Hester St, 70 feet away, for the M15 SBS.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Allen St/Hester St M15 SBS · Shelter
    70 feet
    M15 SBS
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M15 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 41 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 15 of them on-street corrals
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Allen St & Hester St 117 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge northbound at Pearl Street & R F Wagner Sr Place, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2.3 miles
  2. 59 Allen Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.6 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
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10002
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 3
City Council district
1
Police precinct
5 and 7 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Chinatown-Two Bridges
Elevation
39 feet above sea level

Homes

About 3,300 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 1900 and 1920.

Since 2014 at least 8 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 72 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules
  • 7 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and August 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Allen Street

  • Metered parking 6 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

West side of Allen Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • Truck loading only 3 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

North side of Hester Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING W/ MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

South side of Hester Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY 3AM-6AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 102952, 102953, 103341 and 103342.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are five Individual Landmarks, and six buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Classical Revival. They were built between 1831 and 1927.

  1. S. Jarmulowsky Bank Building Designated landmark
    540 feet
  2. Loew's Canal Street Theatre Designated landmark
    630 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Jacob H. Schiff Fountain Fountain by Arnold W. Brunner, 1895
    730 feet
  2. Writings at Helin Temple Site-specific installation by Xu Bing, 2015
    800 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 43 public places.

  • 15 religious buildings
  • 9 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 museums
  • 3 parks
  • 10 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 042 Benjamin Altman School
    300 feet
  2. Emma Lazarus High School
    600 feet
  3. M.S. 131 School
    600 feet
Show all 12
  1. Pace High School
    600 feet
  2. Victoria Children's Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    670 feet
  3. Essex Street Academy School
    1,160 feet
  4. High School for Dual Language and Asian Studies School
    1,160 feet
  5. Lower Manhattan Arts Academy School
    1,160 feet
  6. New Design High School
    1,160 feet
  7. Urban Assembly Academy of Government and Law, The School
    1,160 feet
  8. Grand St. Settlement Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,210 feet
  9. Victoria Children's Center & Nursery Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sara D. Roosevelt Park
    580 feet
  2. Hester St Playground
    590 feet
  3. Seward Park
    690 feet
Show all 5
  1. Seward Park Playground
    770 feet
  2. Straus Square
    1,130 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Division Street Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    930 feet
  2. Forsyth Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,180 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue Listed historic place
    960 feet
  2. Museum at Eldridge Street Museum · landmark · listed historic place
    990 feet
  3. Tenement Building at 97 Orchard Street Listed historic place
    1,080 feet
Show all 5
  1. Lower East Side Tenement Museum
    1,100 feet
  2. International Center of Photography Museum
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Latin Amer Pentecostal Church House of worship
    490 feet
  2. St Barbara Greek Orthodox Church House of worship
    980 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. YMCA Chinatown Hester Street Center Recreation center
    400 feet
  2. Knickerbocker Post Office Listed historic place
    900 feet
  3. Seward Park Community Center
    1,310 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 9/Ladder 6 Fire station
    500 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    540 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Chinatown Supermarket Supermarket
    980 feet
  2. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Metro Acres Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 164 places to eat and 31 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Allen Street or Hester Street.

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