South End Avenue & Rector Place

South End Avenue and Rector Place meet at a four-way crossing 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. Battery Park City is 50 feet away. The nearest subway, Rector St, is about seven minutes on foot, and 12 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 36 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Rector St
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
310 feet
West Thames St/South End Av · M9, M20
Within a walk
11 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 2 listed historic places and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
South End Avenue & Rector Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Rector St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 12 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rector St 1
    0.3 miles
    1

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. 1 …
Downtown
1 line
  1. 1 …

Also within a walk

  1. Rector St R, W
    0.4 miles
    R W
  2. WTC Cortlandt 1
    0.4 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is West Thames St/South End Av, 310 feet away, for the M9 and M20.

  • 31 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. West Thames St/South End Av M9, M20 · Shelter
    310 feet
    M9 M20
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M9 …
  2. M20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on South End Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. West Thames St 73 docks in all
    330 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel at Hugh L Carey Tunnel Entrance, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2.4 miles
  2. Liberty Street Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    870 feet
  3. 299 South Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 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 October 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10280
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
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 5,700 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 1983 and 1987.

Trees

NYC Parks records 132 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 58 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

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

North side of Rector Place

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 16 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Rector Place

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 16 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of South End Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of South End Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, the Landmarks Preservation Commission has designated two lampposts.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 parks
  • 2 public spaces
  • 2 schools

Schools and child care

  1. Battery Park City Day Nursery Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    180 feet
  2. Green Ivy Battery Park Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    380 feet
  3. Playto Battery Park Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    430 feet
Show all 5
  1. Battery Park City School
    1,280 feet
  2. P.S. M094 School
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Battery Park City Park
    50 feet
  2. Liberty Park
    1,300 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 50 West Street Public space
    1,030 feet
  2. Public space at W Downtown Hotel & Residences Public space
    1,300 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. West Street Building Listed historic place
    1,020 feet
  2. New York Evening Post Building Listed historic place
    1,250 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    590 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    530 feet
  2. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Westfield World Trade Center Shopping center
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 36 places to eat and three food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along South End Avenue.

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 Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.