Pearl Street & Hanover Street

Pearl Street and Hanover Street meet at a four-way crossing in Financial District-Battery Park City, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Old Slip Park is 330 feet away, and the King's College is 1,200 feet away. The nearest subway, Wall St, is about two minutes on foot, and 12 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 59 public places, 15 of them listed historic places, and 140 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Wall St
630 feet · 2 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
590 feet
Water St/Old Slip · M15, SIM5
Within a walk
59 places
20 public spaces, 15 listed historic places and 12 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Pearl Street & Hanover Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Wall St, 630 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 12 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Wall St 2, 3
    630 feet
    2 3

Next trains at this station

Uptown
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …
Brooklyn
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Broad St J, Z
    850 feet
    J Z
  2. Whitehall St-South Ferry 1, R, W
    0.3 miles
    1 R W

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Subway Wall” (1990) by Harry Roseman at the Wall St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Water St/Old Slip, 590 feet away, for the M15 and SIM5.

  • 28 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Water St/Old Slip M15, SIM5
    590 feet
    M15 SIM5

Next buses at this stop

  1. M15 …
  2. SIM5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 76 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 7 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Pearl St & Hanover Square 68 docks in all
    160 feet

By car

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

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2.7 miles
  2. 1 West Street Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 299 South Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported seven 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
10004
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

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

Homes

About 8,200 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 1926 and 1961.

Trees

NYC Parks records 64 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 7 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2018 and June 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 3 hour commercial vehicles Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm, 3 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Friday 6pm to 10pm, 3 hour passenger vehicles Saturday 10am to 10pm on Pearl Street (east side).

East side of Hanover Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Hanover Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Pearl Street

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 100223.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are 14 Individual Landmarks, and 39 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Greek Revival. They were mostly built between 1836 and 1905.

  1. Beaver Building Designated landmark
    190 feet
  2. Hanover Bank Building Designated landmark
    260 feet
  3. J. & W. Seligman & Company Building Designated landmark
    330 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Coenties Slip.

  1. Coenties Ship Sculpture by Bryan Hunt, 2006
    690 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 59 public places.

  • 20 public spaces
  • 15 listed historic places
  • 6 schools
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 parks
  • 11 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Sfinity Trade or language school
    570 feet
  2. Kwenda Collegiate Girls Charter School
    770 feet
  3. Millennium High School
    830 feet
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  1. Leman Manhattan Prep School
    860 feet
  2. Pine Street School
    980 feet
  3. Quad Preparatory School
    1,000 feet
  4. Bright Minds Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,080 feet
  5. New York English Academy Trade or language school
    1,160 feet
  6. Quad Preparatory Upper School
    1,160 feet
  7. NY Inst of Security & Polygraph Sci Trade or language school
    1,170 feet
  8. The King's College
    1,200 feet
  9. Golden Minds Prep Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,230 feet
  10. Bright Horizons Children's Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,230 feet
  11. Center for Hearing and Communication Preschool
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. The Queen Elizabeth II September 11th Garden
    50 feet
  2. Old Slip Park
    330 feet
  3. East River Waterfront Esplanade Park
    870 feet
Show all 4
  1. Vietnam Veterans Plaza
    900 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 10 Hanover Square Public space
    120 feet
  2. Public space at Barclays Bank Public space
    360 feet
  3. Coenties Slip Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    770 feet
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  1. Public space at 100 Pearl Street Public space
    470 feet
  2. Public space at J.P. Morgan Public space
    530 feet
  3. Public space at 55 Broad Street Public space
    700 feet
  4. Public space at 77 Water Street Public space
    720 feet
  5. Public space at 100 Wall Street Public space
    830 feet
  6. Public space at 55 Water Street Public space
    840 feet
  7. Public space at 95 Wall Street Public space
    860 feet
  8. Public space at Goldman Sachs Public space
    910 feet
  9. Public space at Financial Square Public space
    930 feet
  10. Public space at 110 Wall Street Public space
    1,010 feet
  11. Public space at 111 Wall Street Public space
    1,080 feet
  12. Public space at Wall Street Plaza Public space
    1,100 feet
  13. Public space at 40 Broad Street Public space
    1,120 feet
  14. Public space at 52 Broadway Public space
    1,200 feet
  15. Public space at 4 New York Plaza Public space
    1,210 feet
  16. Public space at Two Gold Public space
    1,260 feet
  17. Public space at Liberty Tower Public space
    1,260 feet
  18. Public space at 160 Water Street Public space
    1,300 feet

Health care

  1. MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing home or hospice
    840 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Wall and Hanover Building Listed historic place
    310 feet
  2. New York Cotton Exchange (India House) Listed historic place
    370 feet
  3. Stone Street Historic District Listed historic place
    450 feet
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  1. First National City Bank (Merchants' Exchange) Listed historic place
    450 feet
  2. Bank of New York Building Listed historic place
    670 feet
  3. First Police Precinct Station House Listed historic place
    690 feet
  4. Broad Exchange Building Listed historic place
    730 feet
  5. Lee, Higginson & Company Bank Building Listed historic place
    860 feet
  6. Fraunces Tavern Museum Listed historic place
    890 feet
  7. Fraunces Tavern Block Listed historic place
    900 feet
  8. American Bank Note Company Office Building Listed historic place
    950 feet
  9. J. P. Morgan & Co. Building Listed historic place
    960 feet
  10. Manhattan Company Building Listed historic place
    980 feet
  11. Wall Street Historic District Listed historic place
    980 feet
  12. New York Stock Exchange Listed historic place
    1,070 feet
  13. Wallace Building Listed historic place
    1,080 feet
  14. Federal Hall National Memorial Historic site · listed historic place
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady of Victory Church House of worship
    780 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 4/Ladder 15 Fire station
    930 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    230 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    690 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    810 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. 55 Fulton Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

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

Shopping centers

  1. Westfield World Trade Center Shopping center
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 140 places to eat and six food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 24 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Hanover Street or Pearl 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.