Lafayette Street & Kenmare Street

Lafayette Street and Kenmare Street meet at a three-way junction in SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. New York City Police Headquarters, one of four Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 480 feet away. The nearest subway, Spring St, is about two minutes on foot, and 13 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 24 public places, five of them listed historic places, and 185 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Spring St
400 feet · 2 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
370 feet
Cleveland Pl/Spring St · M1
Within a walk
24 places
5 listed historic places, 4 museums and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lafayette Street & Kenmare Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Spring St, 400 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 13 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Spring St 6
    400 feet
    6

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. 6 …
Downtown
1 line
  1. 6 …

Also within a walk

  1. Prince St R, W
    1,250 feet
    R W
  2. Bowery J, Z
    1,310 feet
    J Z

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Cleveland Pl/Spring St, 370 feet away, for the M1.

  • 18 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cleveland Pl/Spring St M1
    370 feet
    M1

Next buses at this stop

  1. M1 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Lafayette Street.

  • 49 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 4 of them on-street corrals
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Cleveland Pl & Spring St 33 docks in all
    250 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge northbound at Pearl Street & R F Wagner Sr Place, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    1.6 miles
  2. 284 Mott Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.4 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 nine crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 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, April 2012
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2022
  • Turn calming, April 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10012
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 2
City Council district
1
Police precinct
5
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square
Elevation
34 feet above sea level

The streets

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

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 1913.

Trees

NYC Parks records 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 7 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2017 and April 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Kenmare Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Kenmare Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Lafayette Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 3 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are four Individual Landmarks, and 158 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate and Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1860 and 1895.

  1. Engine Company No. 55 Designated landmark
    390 feet
  2. New York City Police Headquarters Designated landmark
    480 feet
  3. E.V. Haughwout Building Designated landmark
    480 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 public places.

  • 5 listed historic places
  • 4 museums
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 fire stations
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. International Culinary Center (The) Trade or language school
    920 feet
  2. Italian Culinary Academy (The) Trade or language school
    920 feet
  3. P.S. 130 Hernando de Soto School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Petrosino Square
    70 feet
  2. DeSalvio Playground
    520 feet
  3. Rapkin-Gayle Plaza Park
    670 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Center for Italian Modern Art Museum
    370 feet
  2. Museum of Chinese in America Museum
    910 feet
  3. Odd Fellows Hall Listed historic place
    950 feet
Show all 10
  1. Museum of Ice Cream Museum
    1,020 feet
  2. Italian American Museum
    1,170 feet
  3. Van Rensselar, Stephen, House Listed historic place
    1,180 feet
  4. Mulberry Street Library
    1,190 feet
  5. Chinatown and Little Italy Historic District Listed historic place
    1,190 feet
  6. Westchester House Listed historic place
    1,240 feet
  7. Puck Building Listed historic place
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Holy Trinity Ukrainian Church House of worship
    1,000 feet
  2. St Patricks Old Cathedral Listed historic place
    1,130 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 168 Grand Street Older adult center
    680 feet
  2. Older adult center at 180 Mott Street Older adult center
    740 feet

Fire and police

  1. Division 1/Ladder 20 Fire station
    690 feet
  2. Engine 55 Fire station
    1,050 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    920 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    970 feet
  3. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    1,170 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Mulberry Market Supermarket
    1,070 feet
  2. Hong Kong Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. New Kam Man Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    350 feet
  2. CVS 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 185 places to eat and 19 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Kenmare Street or Lafayette 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 Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.