North End Avenue & River Terrace

North End Avenue and River Terrace meet at a four-way crossing in Financial District-Battery Park City, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Battery Park City Library is 290 feet away, and North Cove Ferry Landing is 580 feet away. The nearest subway, WTC Cortlandt, is about six minutes on foot, and eight subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, three of them schools, and 37 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
WTC Cortlandt
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
260 feet
Murray St/North End Av · M22
Within a walk
15 places
3 schools, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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North End Avenue & River Terrace Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is WTC Cortlandt, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 8 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. WTC Cortlandt 1
    0.3 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, 260 feet away, for the M22.

  • 27 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Murray St/North End Av M22
    260 feet
    M22

Next buses at this stop

  1. M22 …

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
    210 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
    510 feet
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash 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 June 2021.

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
13 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 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 2002 and 2008.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 19 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2016 and July 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of North End Avenue

  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of River Terrace

  • Farmers market 3 signs FARMERS MARKET ONLY MAY 1 - NOV 30 SUNDAY 7AM-4PM

West side of River Terrace

  • No standing 11 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 ferry landings
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 college
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Big and Tiny Vesey Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    250 feet
  2. I.S. 289 School
    1,010 feet
  3. P.S. 89 School
    1,010 feet
Show all 7
  1. Bright Horizons Children's Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    920 feet
  2. Hanhnemann School of Homeopathy Trade or language school
    1,020 feet
  3. Coll New Rochelle Dist Coun 31 CMPS College
    1,180 feet
  4. Stuyvesant High School
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Battery Park City Park
    60 feet
  2. Nelson Rockefeller Park Playground South Playground
    300 feet
  3. Nelson Rockefeller Playground
    770 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at One Eleven Murray Street Public space
    1,020 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Battery Park City Library
    290 feet
  2. New York Telephone Company Building (Barclay-Vesey Building) Listed historic place
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

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

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Westfield World Trade Center Shopping center
    1,060 feet

Other places

  1. Battery Park City Ferry Landing
    460 feet
  2. North Cove Ferry Landing
    580 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 37 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 nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along North End Avenue 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.