Madison Street & Gouverneur Street

Madison Street and Gouverneur Street meet at a four-way crossing in the Lower East Side, Manhattan, at the edge of NYCHA's Vladeck development. The corner is also named Ruth Winds Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. (former) All Saints' Free Church, one of eight Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 260 feet away. The nearest subway, East Broadway, is about seven minutes on foot, for the F. Within a five-minute walk are 30 public places and eight places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
East Broadway
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Madison St/Gouverneur St · M22
Within a walk
30 places
6 playgrounds, 6 religious buildings and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Madison Street & Gouverneur Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is East Broadway, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. East Broadway F
    0.3 miles
    F

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. F …
Brooklyn
1 line
  1. F …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Madison St/Gouverneur St, 110 feet away, for the M22.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Madison St/Gouverneur St M22
    110 feet
    M22

Next buses at this stop

  1. M22 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Madison Street.

  • 17 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Madison St & Montgomery St 20 docks in all
    280 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at FDR Drive & Grand Street, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2.7 miles
  2. 299 South Street Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 8 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, July 2026

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10002
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 3
City Council district
1
Police precinct
7
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Lower East Side
Elevation
29 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Ruth Winds Way, a co-naming enacted on May 5, 2004 (Local Law 8 of 2004).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 3,000 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 1940 and 1955.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Vladeck development.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2020 and January 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Gouverneur Street

  • Back-in parking only 4 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Gouverneur Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

South side of Madison Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-6PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are eight Individual Landmarks, and 11 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Federal. They were mostly built between 1827 and 1834.

  1. (former) All Saints' Free Church Designated landmark
    260 feet
  2. Neighborhood Playhouse Designated landmark
    810 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 30 public places.

  • 6 playgrounds
  • 6 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 5 listed historic places
  • 3 parks
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. University Neighborhood High School
    360 feet
  2. Henry Street Settlement Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K · landmark
    620 feet
  3. P.S. 134 Henrietta Szold School
    670 feet
Show all 7
  1. Manhattan Charter School II School
    720 feet
  2. Orchard Collegiate Academy School
    720 feet
  3. University Neighborhood Middle School
    720 feet
  4. P.S. 184m Shuang Wen School
    1,130 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Vladeck Houses Community Garden - Vladeck Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    230 feet
  2. Sol Lain Plgd Playground
    310 feet
  3. Lillian D Wald Playground
    410 feet
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  1. Vladeck Park
    490 feet
  2. Henry M. Jackson Playground
    680 feet
  3. Vladeck Park Playground
    710 feet
  4. Little Flower Playground
    1,100 feet
  5. Ahearn Park
    1,180 feet
  6. East River Waterfront Esplanade Park
    1,190 feet
  7. Cherry Clinton Playground
    1,190 feet

Health care

  1. New Gouverneur Hospital SNF Nursing home or hospice
    1,190 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lower East Side Historic District (Boundary Increase) Listed historic place
    330 feet
  2. St. Augustine's Chapel Listed historic place
    360 feet
  3. Lillian Wald Residence Listed historic place
    410 feet
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  1. Gouverneur Hospital Listed historic place
    780 feet
  2. Henry Street Settlement and Neighborhood Playhouse Listed historic place
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Marys RC Church House of worship
    1,290 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 334 Madison Street Older adult center
    430 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    990 feet
  2. Metro Acres Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Gouverneur Street or Madison 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, NYCHA, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.