Madison Street & Jefferson Street

Madison Street and Jefferson Street meet at a three-way junction in Chinatown-Two Bridges, Manhattan, at the edge of NYCHA's La Guardia development. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Little Flower Playground is 40 feet away, and New Gouverneur Hospital SNF is 290 feet away. The nearest subway, East Broadway, is about two minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 40 public places, 15 of them religious buildings, and 38 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
East Broadway
490 feet · 2 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Madison St/Jefferson St · M22
Within a walk
40 places
15 religious buildings, 6 schools and 10 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Madison Street & Jefferson Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is East Broadway, 490 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. East Broadway F
    490 feet
    F

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Delancey St-Essex St F, J, M, Z
    0.5 miles
    F J M Z

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Madison St/Jefferson St, 40 feet away, for the M22.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Madison St/Jefferson St M22
    40 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
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Madison St & Clinton St 39 docks in all
    220 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive northbound, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, June 2014
  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2022

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)
Chinatown-Two Bridges
Elevation
17 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 4,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 75 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2020 and July 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Jefferson Street

  • Doctor plates only 3 signs DOCTOR LICENSE PLATES ONLY

West side of Jefferson Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Madison Street

  • Doctor plates only 1 sign DOCTOR LICENSE PLATES ONLY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Two buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Beaux-Arts and Italian Renaissance Revival, one each, and built between 1908 and 1912.

  1. Forward Building Designated landmark
    480 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Little Flower Playground.

  1. Fiorello H. La Guardia Bust by Jo Davidson, 1957
    260 feet
  2. Lower East Side War Memorial Stele by Joseph Kiselewski, 1953
    670 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 40 public places.

  • 15 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 5 playgrounds
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 community centers
  • 9 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Educational Alliance Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    620 feet
  2. Manhattan Charter School II School
    800 feet
  3. Orchard Collegiate Academy School
    800 feet
Show all 9
  1. University Neighborhood Middle School
    800 feet
  2. Victoria Children's Center & Nursery Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    840 feet
  3. P.S. 002 Meyer London School
    1,050 feet
  4. Mesivta Tifereth Jerusalem School
    1,120 feet
  5. Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem Pre-School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,220 feet
  6. P.S. 184m Shuang Wen School
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Little Flower Playground
    40 feet
  2. Lower East Side People Care Garden
    390 feet
  3. Seward Park
    560 feet
Show all 8
  1. Captain Jacob Joseph Playground
    670 feet
  2. Seward Park Playground
    760 feet
  3. Straus Square
    800 feet
  4. Cherry Clinton Playground
    970 feet
  5. Lillian D Wald Playground
    1,280 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Division Street Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,200 feet

Health care

  1. New Gouverneur Hospital SNF Nursing home or hospice
    290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Seward Park Library Landmark
    630 feet
  2. Lower East Side Historic District (Boundary Increase) Listed historic place
    1,010 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Primitive Christian Church House of worship
    580 feet
  2. Trinity Assembly of God Church House of worship
    640 feet
  3. Chinese Missionary Baptist Church House of worship
    670 feet
Show all 4
  1. St Teresa Church House of worship
    770 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 197 East Broadway Older adult center
    520 feet
  2. Rutgers Community Center
    720 feet
  3. Older adult center at 280 Cherry Street Older adult center
    1,170 feet
Show all 4
  1. Two Bridges Community Center
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Metro Acres Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Chinatown Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 38 places to eat and ten food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Jefferson 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, NYCHA, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.