Pearl Street & Brooklyn Bridge at FDR Drive Entry Ramp

Pearl Street, Brooklyn Bridge and FDR Drive Entry Ramp meet at a five-way junction in Financial District-Battery Park City, Manhattan. The corner lies on the edge of the South Street Seaport Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Fishbridge Garden Dog Run is 130 feet away. The nearest subway, Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St, is about five minutes on foot, and 12 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, six of them schools, and 20 places to eat.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St
1,320 feet · 5 min on foot · 4, 5, 6, J, Z
Nearest bus stop
80 feet
Frankfort St/Pearl St · M22, QM7, QM8, QM11 +2
Within a walk
19 places
6 schools, 4 parks and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Pearl Street & Brooklyn Bridge at FDR Drive Entry Ramp Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St, 1,320 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines at the nearest station
  • 12 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St 4, 5, 6, J, Z
    1,320 feet
    4 5 6 J Z

Next trains at this station

Uptown
3 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. 5 …
  3. 6 …
Downtown
5 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. 5 …
  3. 6 …
  4. J …
  5. Z …
Brooklyn
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. Fulton St 2, 3, 4, 5, A, C, J, Z
    0.3 miles
    2 3 4 5 A C J Z
  2. City Hall R, W
    0.4 miles
    R W

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Cable Crossing” (1996) by Mark Gibian at the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Frankfort St/Pearl St, 80 feet away, for the M22, QM7, QM8, QM11 and two more.

  • 30 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Frankfort St/Pearl St M22, QM7, QM8, QM11 +2 · Shelter
    80 feet
    M22 QM7 QM8 QM11 QM25 QM65
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M22 …
  2. QM7 …
  3. QM8 …
  4. QM11 …
  5. QM25 …
  6. QM65 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Pearl Street.

  • 37 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. St James Pl & Pearl St 27 docks in all
    700 feet

By car

A ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge starts at this corner.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2.3 miles
  2. 123 Leonard Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 299 South Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10038
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 1
City Council district
1
Police precinct
1 and 5 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Financial District-Battery Park City
Elevation
22 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 25 to 30 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,000 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 in 1971.

Trees

NYC Parks records 32 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the South Street Seaport Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 62 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival, and mostly built between 1807 and 1867.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 4 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 dog run
  • 1 garden
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Peck Slip School Landmark
    620 feet
  2. Manhattan Early College School for Marketing and Media Arts School
    790 feet
  3. Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers School
    790 feet
Show all 6
  1. The Urban Assembly Early College High School of Emergency Medicine School
    790 feet
  2. Urban Assembly Maker Academy School
    790 feet
  3. New York City Charter School of the Arts School
    930 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. FishBridge Park Garden
    110 feet
  2. Fishbridge Garden Dog Run
    130 feet
  3. James Madison Plaza
    670 feet
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  1. East River Waterfront Esplanade Park
    780 feet
  2. Pearl St Playground
    800 feet
  3. Peck Slip Park
    900 feet
  4. Drumgoole Plaza Park
    960 feet
  5. Alfred E. Smith Playground
    1,260 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Verizon Building Public space
    580 feet
  2. Brooklyn Bridge Arches Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    670 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. South Street Seaport Historic District Listed historic place
    1,070 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 100 Gold Street Older adult center
    670 feet

Supermarkets

  1. 55 Fulton Market Supermarket
    1,250 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,150 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 places to eat and three 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 20 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn Bridge, FDR Drive Entry Ramp or Pearl Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYPD, NYCHA, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.