Lafayette Street & Prince Street

Lafayette Street and Prince Street meet at a four-way crossing in SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Manhattan corner. The Division 1/Ladder 20 firehouse is 280 feet away, and New Museum is 1,110 feet away. The nearest subway, Prince St, is about a minute on foot, and 13 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 160 places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along one of the streets meeting here.

Safety record
7 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prince St
390 feet · 1 min on foot · R, W
Nearest bus stop
500 feet
Cleveland Pl/Spring St · M1
Within a walk
15 places
4 religious buildings, 3 listed historic places and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lafayette Street & Prince Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prince St, 390 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 13 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Prince St R, W
    390 feet
    R W

Next trains at this station

Uptown
2 lines
  1. R …
  2. W …
Downtown
2 lines
  1. R …
  2. W …

Also within a walk

  1. Broadway-Lafayette St/Bleecker St 6, B, D, F, M
    580 feet
    6 B D F M
  2. Spring St 6
    600 feet
    6

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Carrying On” (2004) by Janet Zweig & Edward del Rosario at the Prince St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Cleveland Pl/Spring St, 500 feet away, for the M1.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. M1 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Lafayette Street and Prince Street.

  • 61 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Lafayette St & Jersey St 60 docks in all
    270 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge northbound at Pearl Street & R F Wagner Sr Place, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    1.4 miles
  2. 284 Mott Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1,070 feet
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 2024
  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2024

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
37 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,900 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 1926.

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2019 and August 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Lafayette Street

  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 2 signs 1 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-MIDNIGHT SATURDAY 8AM-MIDNIGHT
  • Authorized vehicles only 3 signs AVO FIRE DEPT MEDICAL CENTER MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

West side of Lafayette Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO FIRE DEPT MEDICAL CENTER MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-6PM

North side of Prince Street

  • No stopping 3 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are five Individual Landmarks, and 119 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1864 and 1898.

  1. Saint Patrick's Chancery Office Designated landmark
    360 feet
  2. Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum Designated landmark
    450 feet
  3. Puck Building Designated landmark
    480 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 3 museums
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 library
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Brainstation NY LP Trade or language school
    670 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Petrosino Square
    730 feet
  2. DeSalvio Playground
    820 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Mulberry Street Library
    330 feet
  2. Museum of Ice Cream Museum
    390 feet
  3. Fourteenth Ward Industrial School Listed historic place
    780 feet
Show all 7
  1. Bleecker Street Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    980 feet
  2. New Museum
    1,110 feet
  3. Bayard-Condict Building Listed historic place
    1,180 feet
  4. Center for Italian Modern Art Museum
    1,230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Patricks Old Cathedral Landmark · listed historic place
    310 feet

Fire and police

  1. Division 1/Ladder 20 Fire station
    280 feet

Bank branches

  1. Capital One Bank branch
    640 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    730 feet
  3. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    920 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Mulberry Market Supermarket
    300 feet
  2. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    610 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    860 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    860 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 160 places to eat and 17 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Lafayette Street or Prince 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.