Little West Street & 1st Place

Little West Street and 1st Place meet at a three-way junction in Financial District-Battery Park City, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Skyscraper Museum is 180 feet away, and Battery Park Slip 6 Ferry Landing is 930 feet away. The nearest subway, Bowling Green, is about four minutes on foot, and seven subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, three of them parks, and three places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bowling Green
1,130 feet · 4 min on foot · 4, 5
Nearest bus stop
330 feet
Battery Pl/West St · M20
Within a walk
20 places
3 parks, 3 schools and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Little West Street & 1st Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bowling Green, 1,130 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 7 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bowling Green 4, 5
    1,130 feet
    4 5

Next trains at this station

Uptown
2 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. 5 …
Downtown
2 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. 5 …

Also within a walk

  1. Whitehall St-South Ferry 1, R, W
    0.3 miles
    1 R W
  2. Rector St R, W
    0.3 miles
    R W

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Battery Pl/West St, 330 feet away, for the M20.

  • 28 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Battery Pl/West St M20
    330 feet
    M20

Next buses at this stop

  1. M20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Little West St & 1 Pl 35 docks in all
    70 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel at Hugh L Carey Tunnel Entrance, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2.7 miles
  2. 1 West Street Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 299 South Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

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
7 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 113 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2016 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 1st Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of 1st Place

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of Little West Street

  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING HOTEL LOADING ZONE

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Five buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Art Deco, and mostly built between 1895 and 1930.

  1. Whitehall Building; Greater Whitehall Building Designated landmark
    330 feet
  2. Downtown Athletic Club Building Designated landmark
    420 feet
  3. 21 West Street Building Designated landmark
    460 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Walloon Settlers Memorial Stele, 1924
    530 feet
  2. Salvation Army Monument Stele, 1952
    610 feet
  3. New York Korean War Veterans Memorial Sculpture by Mac Adams, 1991
    630 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 parks
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 monuments or memorials
  • 8 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Battery Park City School
    330 feet
  2. P.S. M094 School
    330 feet
  3. Nyfa College
    970 feet
Show all 7
  1. Institute of Career Continuity Trade or language school
    970 feet
  2. John V. Lindsay Wildcat Academy Charter School
    970 feet
  3. The Learning Experience Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,120 feet
  4. District 2 Pre-K Center at 2-26 Washington Street Pre-K center
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. The Battery Park
    550 feet
  2. Battery Park City Park
    580 feet
  3. Bowling Green Listed historic place
    1,260 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Pier A Landmark
    600 feet
  2. Public space at 17 Battery Place Public space
    970 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Skyscraper Museum
    180 feet
  2. Museum of Jewish Heritage Museum
    460 feet
  3. American Merchant Mariners Memorial Monument or memorial
    690 feet
Show all 7
  1. Giovanni Da Verrazzano Monument Monument or memorial
    690 feet
  2. The Sphere Public artwork
    760 feet
  3. City Pier A Listed historic place
    790 feet
  4. International Mercantile Marine Company Building (U.S. Lines) Listed historic place
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other places

  1. Battery Park Slip 6 Ferry Landing
    930 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 1st Place or Little West 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 Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.