Prince Street & Wooster Street

Prince Street and Wooster Street meet at a four-way crossing in SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square, Manhattan. The corner lies inside the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse (former Engine Company No. 13) stands 400 feet away, and Museum of Ice Cream is 860 feet away. The nearest subway, Prince St, is about three minutes on foot, for the R and W. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places and 120 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prince St
740 feet · 3 min on foot · R, W
Nearest bus stop
520 feet
West Houston St/West Broadway · M21
Within a walk
18 places
4 listed historic places, 4 religious buildings and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Prince Street & Wooster Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prince St, 740 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 11 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Prince St R, W
    740 feet
    R W

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Broadway-Lafayette St/Bleecker St 6, B, D, F, M
    0.3 miles
    6 B D F M
  2. Spring St C, E
    0.3 miles
    C E

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Carrying On” (2004) by Janet Zweig & Edward del Rosario at the Prince St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is West Houston St/West Broadway, 520 feet away, for the M21.

  • 18 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. West Houston St/West Broadway M21 · Shelter
    520 feet
    M21
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M21 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Prince Street.

  • 62 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Greene St & Prince St 45 docks in all
    280 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge northbound at Pearl Street & R F Wagner Sr Place, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    1.2 miles
  2. 284 Mott Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

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. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10012
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 2
City Council district
1
Police precinct
1
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square
Elevation
22 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,200 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 1884 and 1912.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 24 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2019 and June 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Prince Street

  • No stopping 6 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of Prince Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

East side of Wooster Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

West side of Wooster Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 336 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec. They were mostly built between 1870 and 1898.

  1. Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse (former Engine Company No. 13) Designated landmark
    400 feet
  2. (former) Substation No. 2 Designated landmark
    590 feet
  3. Silver Towers II Designated landmark
    630 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at 110 Greene Street.

  1. Subway Map Floating on a New York Sidewalk Installation by Francoise Schein, 1985
    340 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 listed historic places
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 parks
  • 1 college
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Ie New York College
    930 feet
  2. University Plaza Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Vesuvio Playground Landmark
    770 feet
  2. Father Fagan Park
    990 feet
  3. LaGuardia Corner Community Garden
    1,080 feet
Show all 5
  1. Charlton Plaza
    1,140 feet
  2. Fiorello La Guardia Park
    1,250 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at NYU Core Public space
    1,080 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Museum of Ice Cream Museum
    860 feet
  2. House at 203 Prince Street Listed historic place
    980 feet
  3. Soho Cast-Iron Historic District (NHL) Listed historic place
    1,130 feet
Show all 5
  1. Soho Historic District Listed historic place
    1,140 feet
  2. E. V. Haughwout Building Listed historic place
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Anthony of Padua Church House of worship
    920 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Vesuvio Playground Mini Pool Swimming pool
    660 feet

Bank branches

  1. Capital One Bank branch
    1,000 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,080 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    1,290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Morton Williams Supermarket
    1,160 feet
  2. Mulberry Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    1,210 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 120 places to eat and ten food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

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