Monroe Street & Gouverneur Street

Monroe Street and Gouverneur Street meet at a four-way crossing in the Lower East Side, Manhattan, at the edge of NYCHA's Vladeck development. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. University Neighborhood High School is 110 feet away. The nearest subway, East Broadway, is about eight minutes on foot, for the F. Within a five-minute walk are 29 public places, six of them religious buildings, and one place to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
East Broadway
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
370 feet
Madison St/Gouverneur St · M22
Within a walk
29 places
6 religious buildings, 6 schools and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Monroe Street & Gouverneur Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is East Broadway, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. East Broadway F
    0.4 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, 370 feet away, for the M22.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. M22 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive northbound, 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
    1,100 feet

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 April 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
24 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 3,100 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 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the northern red oak and the pin oak.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are five Individual Landmarks, and eight buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Federal and Greek Revival. They were mostly built between 1827 and 1832.

  1. (former) All Saints' Free Church Designated landmark
    460 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. University Neighborhood High School
    110 feet
  2. P.S. 184m Shuang Wen School
    870 feet
  3. Henry Street Settlement Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K · landmark
    880 feet
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  1. P.S. 134 Henrietta Szold School
    930 feet
  2. Manhattan Charter School II School
    980 feet
  3. Orchard Collegiate Academy School
    980 feet
  4. University Neighborhood Middle School
    980 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lillian D Wald Playground
    150 feet
  2. Vladeck Houses Community Garden - Vladeck Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    490 feet
  3. Sol Lain Plgd Playground
    570 feet
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  1. Vladeck Park
    740 feet
  2. East River Waterfront Esplanade Park
    930 feet
  3. Cherry Clinton Playground
    930 feet
  4. Henry M. Jackson Playground
    940 feet
  5. Vladeck Park Playground
    970 feet
  6. Pier 42 Park
    1,070 feet
  7. John V. Lindsay East River Park
    1,120 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Basketball City Public space
    1,070 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Gouverneur Hospital Listed historic place
    520 feet
  2. Lower East Side Historic District (Boundary Increase) Listed historic place
    590 feet
  3. St. Augustine's Chapel Listed historic place
    620 feet
Show all 4
  1. Lillian Wald Residence Listed historic place
    670 feet

Community centers and public services

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

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    1,250 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 is one place to eat and two food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

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