Laight Street & Collister Street

Laight Street and Collister Street meet at a three-way junction in Tribeca-Civic Center, Manhattan. The corner lies inside the Tribeca North Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. (former) American Express Company Stable stands 140 feet away. The nearest subway, Canal St, is about four minutes on foot, and 13 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 37 places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Canal St
1,080 feet · 4 min on foot · A, C, E
Nearest bus stop
950 feet
Hudson St/North Moore St · M20
Within a walk
13 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 3 parks and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Laight Street & Collister Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Canal St, 1,080 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  • 13 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Canal St A, C, E
    1,080 feet
    A C E

Next trains at this station

Uptown
3 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
  3. E …
Downtown
3 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
  3. E …

Also within a walk

  1. Canal St 1
    1,170 feet
    1
  2. Franklin St 1
    0.3 miles
    1

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “A Gathering” (2001) by Walter Martin & Paloma Muñoz at the Canal St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hudson St/North Moore St, 950 feet away, for the M20.

  • 19 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hudson St/North Moore St M20
    950 feet
    M20

Next buses at this stop

  1. M20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Laight St & Hudson St 87 docks in all
    400 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge at Rose Street, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    1.4 miles
  2. 325 North End Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10013
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 1
City Council district
1
Police precinct
1
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Tribeca-Civic Center
Elevation
12 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Chinese elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2016 and April 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Collister Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Collister Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Laight Street

  • Truck loading only 3 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Tribeca North Historic District.

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 110 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Utilitarian. They were mostly built between 1883 and 1909.

  1. (former) American Express Company Stable Designated landmark
    140 feet
  2. Holland Tunnel Administration Building Designated landmark
    590 feet
  3. Castree Building Designated landmark
    700 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 parks
  • 2 public spaces
  • 1 career or business center
  • 1 dog run
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Citi Children's Center at 388 Greenwich Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    740 feet
  2. Bright Horizons at Tribeca Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    820 feet
  3. Tribeca Community School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    910 feet
Show all 4
  1. Language Institute for English Trade or language school
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hudson River Park
    820 feet
  2. Albert Capsouto Park
    900 feet
  3. Tribeca Dog Run Hudson River Park Dog run
    1,070 feet
Show all 4
  1. Duarte Square
    1,310 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Salomon Smith Barney Public space
    1,070 feet
  2. Freeman Plaza West Public space
    1,090 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Fleming Smith Warehouse Listed historic place
    1,120 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. NYS Department of Labor Lower Manhattan Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    1,170 feet

Fire and police

  1. 1st Precinct Police station
    1,210 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    890 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,290 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 37 places to eat and five food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 19 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Collister Street or Laight Street.

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