Liberty Street & South End Avenue

Liberty Street and South End Avenue meet at a five-way junction in Financial District-Battery Park City, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Battery Park City is 80 feet away, and Greek St Nicholas Church is 880 feet away. The nearest subway, WTC Cortlandt, is about five minutes on foot, and 12 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, two of them listed historic places, and 44 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
WTC Cortlandt
1,300 feet · 5 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
320 feet
South End Av/Albany St · M9, M20
Within a walk
13 places
2 listed historic places, 2 parks and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Liberty Street & South End Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is WTC Cortlandt, 1,300 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 12 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. WTC Cortlandt 1
    1,300 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Chambers St/WTC/Park Place/Cortlandt St 2, 3, A, C, E, R, W
    0.3 miles
    2 3 A C E R W
  2. Rector St 1
    0.3 miles
    1

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “CHORUS” (2018) by Ann Hamilton at the WTC Cortlandt station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is South End Av/Albany St, 320 feet away, for the M9 and M20.

  • 29 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. South End Av/Albany St M9, M20
    320 feet
    M9 M20

Next buses at this stop

  1. M9 …
  2. M20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on North Cove Bike Path and South End Avenue.

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 3 of them on-street corrals
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. West St & Liberty St 48 docks in all
    300 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel at Hugh L Carey Tunnel Entrance, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2.2 miles
  2. Liberty Street Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    380 feet
  3. 299 South Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, May 2025
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10280
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 1
City Council district
1
Police precinct
1
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Financial District-Battery Park City
Elevation
13 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

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 1983 and 1985.

Trees

NYC Parks records 60 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American basswood.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 12 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2016 and August 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 3 hour commercial vehicles Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm on South End Avenue (west side).

North side of Liberty Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Liberty Street

  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

East side of South End Avenue

  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 1 sign 3 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-6PM
  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 2 signs 3 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM
  • NYP plates only 1 sign NYP LICENSE PLATES ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

West side of South End Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Taxi stand 1 sign TAXI STAND

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 101582 and 102965.

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as neo-Gothic, and built between 1905 and 1907.

  1. West Street Building Designated landmark
    740 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 parks
  • 2 public spaces
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 ferry landing
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Battery Park City Day Nursery Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    790 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Battery Park City Park
    80 feet
  2. Battery Park City Playground
    430 feet
  3. Liberty Park
    710 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at One Bankers Trust Plaza Public space
    960 feet
  2. Public space at W Downtown Hotel & Residences Public space
    1,300 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. September 11 Memorial Monument or memorial
    520 feet
  2. Shearwater, Sloop Listed historic place
    560 feet
  3. 9/11 Memorial Museum
    950 feet
Show all 4
  1. New York Evening Post Building Listed historic place
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Greek St Nicholas Church House of worship
    880 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 10/Ladder 10 Fire station
    1,160 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    420 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    450 feet
  2. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Westfield World Trade Center Shopping center
    580 feet

Other places

  1. North Cove Ferry Landing
    1,000 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 44 places to eat and two food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Liberty Street, North Cove Bike Path or South End Avenue.

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, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.