Pearl Street & Whitehall Street

Pearl Street and Whitehall Street meet at a four-way crossing in Financial District-Battery Park City, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The statue “Coast Guard Memorial” is 400 feet away, and the Queen Elizabeth II September 11th Garden is 1,170 feet away. The nearest subway, Whitehall St-South Ferry, is about a minute on foot, and nine subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 41 public places, seven of them schools, and 123 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Whitehall St-South Ferry
370 feet · 1 min on foot · 1, R, W
Nearest bus stop
290 feet
State St/Whitehall St · M20, M55
Within a walk
41 places
9 public spaces, 7 schools and 15 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Pearl Street & Whitehall Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Whitehall St-South Ferry, 370 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  • 9 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Whitehall St-South Ferry 1, R, W
    370 feet
    1 R W

Next trains at this station

Uptown
3 lines
  1. 1 …
  2. R …
  3. W …
Downtown
2 lines
  1. R …
  2. W …

Also within a walk

  1. Bowling Green 4, 5
    610 feet
    4 5
  2. Rector St R, W
    0.3 miles
    R W

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Passages” (2000) by Frank Giorgini and “See it split, see it change” (2009) by Doug & Michael Starn at the Whitehall St-South Ferry station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is State St/Whitehall St, 290 feet away, for the M20 and M55.

  • 28 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. State St/Whitehall St M20, M55
    290 feet
    M20 M55

Next buses at this stop

  1. M20 …
  2. M55 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Pearl Street and Whitehall Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Pearl St & Whitehall St 44 docks in all
    50 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
    2.8 miles
  2. 1 West Street Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 299 South Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported four crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

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
8 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,600 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 1969.

Since 2014 at least 330 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 17 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2016 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 3 hour commercial vehicles Monday to Friday 7am to 7pm on Pearl Street (south side).

East side of Pearl Street

  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 1 sign 3 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

North side of Pearl Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Pearl Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY NYS DEPT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Pearl Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Whitehall Street

  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 2 signs 3 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-7PM
  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO DEPT OF MOTOR VEHICLES MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Whitehall Street

  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 1 sign 3 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 100050, 100174 and 116205.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are five Individual Landmarks, and 24 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival. They were mostly built between 1828 and 1884.

  1. Interborough Rapid Transit System, Battery Park Control House Designated landmark
    560 feet
  2. American Bank Note Company Office Building Designated landmark
    700 feet
  3. International Mercantile Marine Company Building Designated landmark
    780 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists three works near this corner, the nearest in Battery Park.

  1. Coast Guard Memorial Statue by Norman Millet Thomas, 1955
    400 feet
  2. John Wolfe Ambrose Bust by Andrew O'Connor, Jr. and Frederick George Richard Roth, 1936
    430 feet
  3. Wireless Operators Memorial Cenotaph, 1915
    440 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 41 public places.

  • 9 public spaces
  • 7 schools
  • 4 parks
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 2 colleges
  • 16 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Bright Horizons at Broad Street Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    900 feet
  2. Millennium High School
    950 feet
  3. Manhattan Language Trade or language school
    980 feet
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  1. Lower Manhattan Community Middle School
    980 feet
  2. Richard R. Green High School of Teaching School
    980 feet
  3. Urban Assembly School of Business for Young Women, The School
    980 feet
  4. Lang School
    990 feet
  5. Urban Assembly New York Harbor School
    1,010 feet
  6. New York City Charter School of the Arts School
    1,050 feet
  7. Flatiron School Trade or language school
    1,190 feet
  8. Mildred Elley-Nyc College
    1,310 feet
  9. Relay School of Education College
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Peter Minuit Plaza in The Battery Park feature
    290 feet
  2. The Battery Park
    300 feet
  3. Bowling Green Listed historic place
    550 feet
Show all 8
  1. Battery Park Playground
    650 feet
  2. East River Waterfront Esplanade Park
    720 feet
  3. Vietnam Veterans Plaza
    920 feet
  4. The Queen Elizabeth II September 11th Garden
    1,170 feet
  5. Admiral Dewey Promenade in The Battery Park feature
    1,210 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 1 State Street Plaza Public space
    220 feet
  2. Public space at 1 Battery Park Plaza Public space
    310 feet
  3. Coenties Slip Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    780 feet
Show all 10
  1. Public space at 17 State Street Public space
    340 feet
  2. Public space at 1 New York Plaza Public space
    610 feet
  3. Public space at Goldman Sachs Public space
    730 feet
  4. Public space at 4 New York Plaza Public space
    810 feet
  5. Public space at 100 Pearl Street Public space
    1,070 feet
  6. Public space at 2 New York Plaza Public space
    1,070 feet
  7. Public space at 55 Broad Street Public space
    1,140 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. National Museum of the American Indian Museum · landmark · listed historic place
    430 feet
  2. Fraunces Tavern Museum Listed historic place
    470 feet
  3. Fraunces Tavern Block Listed historic place
    560 feet
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  1. Charging Bull Statue Public artwork
    910 feet
  2. Stone Street Historic District Listed historic place
    1,030 feet
  3. New York Cotton Exchange (India House) Listed historic place
    1,130 feet
  4. Citizens Housing and Planning Counci Research library
    1,210 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Elizabeth Ann Seton Shrine Listed historic place
    370 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. US Bankruptcy Court Courthouse · landmark · listed historic place
    490 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    910 feet
  2. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    990 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    1,010 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    320 feet

Other places

  1. Whitehall Ferry Terminal Ferry landing
    850 feet
  2. Governors Island Ferry Manhattan Terminal Ferry landing · listed historic place
    920 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 123 places to eat and five food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 19 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Pearl Street or Whitehall Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, 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 and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.