River Terrace & Park Place West

River Terrace and Park Place West meet at a three-way junction 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. Nelson Rockefeller Playground is 70 feet away. The nearest subway, Chambers St, is about nine minutes on foot, and eight subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them schools, and 27 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Chambers St
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · 1, 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
700 feet
North End Av/Warren St · M20, M22
Within a walk
10 places
3 schools, 2 parks and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
River Terrace & Park Place West Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Chambers St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  • 8 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Chambers St 1, 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    1 2 3

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. WTC Cortlandt 1
    0.5 miles
    1
  2. Chambers St/WTC/Park Place/Cortlandt St 2, 3, A, C, E, R, W
    0.5 miles
    2 3 A C E R W

Bus

The nearest bus stop is North End Av/Warren St, 700 feet away, for the M20 and M22.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. North End Av/Warren St M20, M22
    700 feet
    M20 M22

Next buses at this stop

  1. M20 …
  2. M22 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. River Ter & Warren St 69 docks in all
    230 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge at Rose Street, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2 miles
  2. 325 North End Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    840 feet
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2 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 December 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 two travel lanes

Homes

About 2,800 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 1998 and 2006.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the willow oak.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 ferry landing
  • 1 library

Schools and child care

  1. I.S. 289 School
    880 feet
  2. P.S. 89 School
    880 feet
  3. Stuyvesant High School
    960 feet
Show all 4
  1. Big and Tiny Vesey Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,100 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Battery Park City Park
    40 feet
  2. Nelson Rockefeller Playground
    70 feet
  3. Nelson Rockefeller Park Playground South Playground
    350 feet
Show all 4
  1. Hudson River Park
    660 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Battery Park City Library
    610 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    490 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Westfield World Trade Center Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Other places

  1. Battery Park City Ferry Landing
    870 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 places to eat and five food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change, a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Park Place West 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.