MacDougal Street & West 8th Street

MacDougal Street and West 8th Street meet at a three-way junction in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. The corner is also named Norman Buchbinder Way by local law. It lies inside the Greenwich Village Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Eighth Street Playhouse and Village Barn stands 260 feet away. The nearest subway, W 4 St-Wash Sq, is about three minutes on foot, for the A, B, C and four more. Within a five-minute walk are 25 public places and 106 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
W 4 St-Wash Sq
680 feet · 3 min on foot · A, B, C, D, E, F, M
Nearest bus stop
380 feet
W 8 St/6 Av · M8
Within a walk
25 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 4 playgrounds and 12 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
MacDougal Street & West 8th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is W 4 St-Wash Sq, 680 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 7 lines at the nearest station
  • 14 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. W 4 St-Wash Sq A, B, C, D, E, F, M
    680 feet
    A B C D E F M

Next trains at this station

Uptown
7 lines
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  6. F …
  7. M …
Downtown
7 lines
  1. A …
  2. B …
  3. C …
  4. D …
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  6. F …
  7. M …

Also within a walk

  1. Christopher St-Stonewall 1
    0.3 miles
    1
  2. 8 St-NYU R, W
    0.3 miles
    R W

Bus

The nearest bus stop is W 8 St/6 Av, 380 feet away, for the M8.

  • 25 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. W 8 St/6 Av M8
    380 feet
    M8

Next buses at this stop

  1. M8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on West 8th Street.

  • 73 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 7 of them on-street corrals
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. MacDougal St & Washington Sq 33 docks in all
    300 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at Avenue C, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 2 Washington Square Village Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. West 24th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Enhanced crossing, June 2015

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10011
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 2
City Council district
2
Police precinct
6
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Greenwich Village
Elevation
22 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Norman Buchbinder Way, a co-naming enacted on February 5, 2015 (Local Law 15 of 2015).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 4,500 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 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Norman Buchbinder Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

East side of MacDougal Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-11PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 11PM-7AM ALL DAYS
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of MacDougal Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING 11PM-7AM ALL DAYS
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of West 8th Street

  • Metered parking 6 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 7:30AM-MIDNIGHT EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 7PM-MIDNIGHT EXEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING 7AM-7:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING MIDNIGHT-6AM ALL DAYS

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Greenwich Village Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 402 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival, and mostly built between 1839 and 1886.

  1. Hotel Earle Designated landmark
    230 feet
  2. Eighth Street Playhouse and Village Barn Designated landmark
    260 feet
  3. Hotel Marlton Designated landmark
    340 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. George Washington Accompanied by Wisdom and Justice Statue by Alexander Stirling Calder, 1918
    640 feet
  2. Alexander Lyman Holley Statue by John Quincy Adams Ward, 1890
    660 feet
  3. Washington Square Arch Arch by Frederick William MacMonnies and Philip Martiny, 1895
    670 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 public places.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 playgrounds
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 colleges
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 10 other places

Schools and child care

  1. New York Studio School College · listed historic place
    350 feet
  2. NY Kids Club Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    580 feet
  3. Lac Early Childhood Center Infant, toddler and preschool care
    660 feet
Show all 7
  1. Perry Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,050 feet
  2. Academy of St Joseph School
    1,130 feet
  3. NYU Robert F Wagner Grad Sch Pub Ser College
    1,140 feet
  4. La Petite Ecole Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Washington Square Park
    350 feet
  2. Toddler Playground
    710 feet
  3. Jefferson Market Garden
    720 feet
Show all 7
  1. Play Hills Playground
    860 feet
  2. Washington Square Park Playground
    1,020 feet
  3. West 4th Street Courts Playground
    1,170 feet
  4. Christopher Park
    1,290 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Ruth Wittenberg Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    650 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. West 4th Street Subway Station (IND) Listed historic place
    940 feet
  2. Jefferson Market Library Listed historic place
    950 feet
  3. Stonewall National Monument Historic site
    990 feet
Show all 4
  1. Stonewall Listed historic place
    990 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. New York University Provincetown Playhouse Theater or concert hall
    960 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Josephs Church Greenwich Village House of worship
    960 feet
  2. Episcopal Ascension Church Listed historic place
    1,100 feet
  3. Judson Memorial Church Listed historic place
    1,170 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 20 Washington Square North Older adult center
    480 feet

Fire and police

  1. Squad 18 Fire station
    1,010 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    650 feet
  2. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    810 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    1,160 feet
  2. Lincoln Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Wegmans Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    990 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 106 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along MacDougal Street or West 8th 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, NYC Records, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.