Murray Street & River Terrace

Murray Street and River Terrace meet at a three-way junction in Financial District-Battery Park City, Manhattan. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Nelson Rockefeller Park Playground South is 70 feet away. The nearest subway, WTC Cortlandt, is about eight minutes on foot, and eight subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, three of them schools, and 29 places to eat. About 2,500 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1998 and 2006, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
WTC Cortlandt
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
440 feet
Murray St/North End Av · M20
Within a walk
14 places
3 schools, 2 ferry landings and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Murray Street & River Terrace Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 8 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. WTC Cortlandt 1
    0.4 miles
    1

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. 1 …
Downtown
1 line
  1. 1 …

Also within a walk

  1. Chambers St/WTC/Park Place/Cortlandt St 2, 3, A, C, E, R, W
    0.4 miles
    2 3 A C E R W
  2. Chambers St 1, 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    1 2 3

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “CHORUS” (2018) by Ann Hamilton at the WTC Cortlandt station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Murray St/North End Av, 440 feet away, for the M20.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Murray St/North End Av M20
    440 feet
    M20

Next buses at this stop

  1. M20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Vesey Pl & River Terrace 57 docks in all
    360 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge at Rose Street, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2 miles
  2. 250 Vesey Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1,080 feet
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2019.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10282
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 1
City Council district
1
Police precinct
1
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Financial District-Battery Park City
Elevation
12 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 2,500 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 1998 and 2006.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the willow oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2017 and July 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Murray Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Murray Street

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

East side of River Terrace

  • Farmers market 3 signs FARMERS MARKET ONLY MAY 1 - NOV 30 SUNDAY 7AM-4PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 ferry landings
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 college
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Big and Tiny Vesey Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    820 feet
  2. I.S. 289 School
    1,040 feet
  3. P.S. 89 School
    1,040 feet
Show all 6
  1. Hanhnemann School of Homeopathy Trade or language school
    1,150 feet
  2. Stuyvesant High School
    1,240 feet
  3. Coll New Rochelle Dist Coun 31 CMPS College
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Battery Park City Park
    50 feet
  2. Nelson Rockefeller Park Playground South Playground
    70 feet
  3. Nelson Rockefeller Playground
    200 feet
Show all 4
  1. Hudson River Park
    940 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at One Eleven Murray Street Public space
    1,150 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Battery Park City Library
    330 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

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

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Westfield World Trade Center Shopping center
    0.3 miles

Other places

  1. Battery Park City Ferry Landing
    590 feet
  2. North Cove Ferry Landing
    1,150 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 places to eat and five food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Murray Street or River Terrace.

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, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.