Thompson Street & Washington Square South

Thompson Street and Washington Square South meet at a four-way crossing in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. The corner lies on the edge of the Greenwich Village Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Judson Memorial Church is 90 feet away, and Judson Hall stands 150 feet away. The nearest subway, W 4 St-Wash Sq, is about five minutes on foot, for the A, B, C and four more. Within a five-minute walk are 25 public places, six of them playgrounds, and 157 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
W 4 St-Wash Sq
1,190 feet · 5 min on foot · A, B, C, D, E, F, M
Nearest bus stop
1,200 feet
6 Av/W 3 St · T232
Within a walk
25 places
6 playgrounds, 4 colleges and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Thompson Street & Washington Square South Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is W 4 St-Wash Sq, 1,190 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 7 lines at the nearest station
  • 11 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. W 4 St-Wash Sq A, B, C, D, E, F, M
    1,190 feet
    A B C D E F M

Next trains at this station

Uptown
7 lines
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  7. M …
Downtown
7 lines
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  4. D …
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  6. F …
  7. M …

Also within a walk

  1. Christopher St-Stonewall 1
    0.3 miles
    1
  2. 8 St-NYU R, W
    0.3 miles
    R W

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 6 Av/W 3 St, 1,200 feet away, for the T232.

  • 20 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 6 Av/W 3 St T232
    1,200 feet
    T232

Next buses at this stop

  1. T232 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Washington Square South.

  • 86 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 8 of them on-street corrals
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sullivan St & Washington Sq 57 docks in all
    350 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive northbound at FDR Drive & East Houston Street at E Houston Street Pedestrian Overpass, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 2 Washington Square Village Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2015
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10012
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 2
City Council district
2
Police precinct
6
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Greenwich Village
Elevation
28 feet above sea level

The streets

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

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 1887 and 1926.

Trees

NYC Parks records 128 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 13 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2015 and May 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Thompson Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Thompson Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Washington Square South

  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO DEPARTMENT OF PARKS & RECREATION MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Greenwich Village Historic District.

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and 229 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival. They were mostly built between 1837 and 1901.

  1. Judson Hall Designated landmark
    150 feet
  2. Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies Designated landmark
    220 feet
  3. (former) Fire Patrol No. 2 Designated landmark
    340 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Alexander Lyman Holley Statue by John Quincy Adams Ward, 1890
    310 feet
  2. Giuseppe Garibaldi Statue by Giovanni Turini, 1888
    350 feet
  3. Washington Square Arch Arch by Frederick William MacMonnies and Philip Martiny, 1895
    440 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 public places.

  • 6 playgrounds
  • 4 colleges
  • 3 parks
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 8 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Liu-New York University Campus College
    470 feet
  2. New York University College
    500 feet
  3. Hebrew Union Coll - Jewish Inst College
    1,150 feet
Show all 4
  1. NYU Robert F Wagner Grad Sch Pub Ser College
    1,160 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Washington Square Park
    30 feet
  2. Play Hills Playground
    300 feet
  3. Fiorello La Guardia Park
    550 feet
Show all 10
  1. Adrienne's Playground
    670 feet
  2. West 4th Street Courts Playground
    850 feet
  3. Washington Square Park Playground
    980 feet
  4. LaGuardia Corner Community Garden
    1,110 feet
  5. Minetta Playground
    1,110 feet
  6. Mercer Playground
    1,230 feet
  7. Minetta Green
    1,290 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at NYU Core Public space
    1,240 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. New York University Libraries Research library
    470 feet
  2. NYU Tamiment Library Research library
    500 feet
  3. Fiorello H La Guardia Monument Monument or memorial
    660 feet
Show all 6
  1. Chaim Gross Studio Museum
    710 feet
  2. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory (Brown Building) Listed historic place
    1,010 feet
  3. West 4th Street Subway Station (IND) Listed historic place
    1,300 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. New York University Provincetown Playhouse Theater or concert hall
    580 feet
  2. New York University Frederick Loewe Theatre Theater or concert hall
    660 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Judson Memorial Church Landmark · listed historic place
    90 feet
  2. St Josephs Church Greenwich Village House of worship
    1,220 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    910 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    990 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Morton Williams Supermarket
    1,180 feet
  2. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    880 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 157 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Thompson Street or Washington Square South.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.