Varick Street & Laight Street

Varick Street and Laight Street meet at a five-way junction in Tribeca-Civic Center, Manhattan. The corner lies on the edge of the Tribeca North Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Albert Capsouto Park is 50 feet away. The nearest subway, Canal St, is about a minute on foot, and 13 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, four of them parks, and 69 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Canal St
230 feet · 1 min on foot · A, C, E
Nearest bus stop
610 feet
6 Av/W Broadway · M55, BxM18, X27, X28
Within a walk
20 places
4 parks, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 11 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Varick Street & Laight Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Canal St, 230 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  • 13 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Canal St A, C, E
    230 feet
    A C E

Next trains at this station

Uptown
3 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
  3. E …
Downtown
3 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
  3. E …

Also within a walk

  1. Canal St 1
    320 feet
    1
  2. Franklin St 1
    980 feet
    1

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “A Gathering” (2001) by Walter Martin & Paloma Muñoz at the Canal St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 6 Av/W Broadway, 610 feet away, for the M55, BxM18, X27 and X28.

  • 19 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 6 Av/W Broadway M55, BxM18, X27, X28 · Shelter
    610 feet
    M55 BxM18 X27 X28
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M55 …
  2. BxM18 …
  3. X27 …
  4. X28 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Varick Street.

  • 25 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Laight St & Hudson St 87 docks in all
    490 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
    1.4 miles
  2. 123 Leonard Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.7 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 seven crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10013
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 1
City Council district
1
Police precinct
1
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Tribeca-Civic Center

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Three of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,100 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 1900 and 1929.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the willow oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 25 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2014 and April 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Laight Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

South side of Laight Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No stopping 3 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

East side of Varick Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

West side of Varick Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 3 signs AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Tribeca North Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 74 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Renaissance. They were mostly built between 1882 and 1910.

  1. Holland Tunnel Administration Building Designated landmark
    360 feet
  2. Holland Plaza Building Designated landmark
    560 feet
  3. (former) Merchants' Refrigerating Company Designated landmark
    660 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Canal Waterworks Fountain by Elyn Zimmerman, 2009
    140 feet
  2. Juan Pablo Duarte Statue by Nicola Arrighini, 1978
    400 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 parks
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 museums
  • 1 career or business center
  • 1 fire station
  • 8 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Vivvi 1 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    520 feet
  2. Tribeca Community School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    650 feet
  3. Language Institute for English Trade or language school
    690 feet
Show all 5
  1. Bright Horizons at Tribeca Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,100 feet
  2. Broome Street Academy Charter High School
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Albert Capsouto Park
    50 feet
  2. Duarte Square
    460 feet
  3. Grand Canal Court Park
    530 feet
Show all 4
  1. Tribeca Park
    680 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Freeman Plaza West Public space
    1,060 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Jackie Robinson Museum
    520 feet
  2. American Thread Building Listed historic place
    670 feet
  3. Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Museum
    1,190 feet
Show all 4
  1. Drawing Center Museum
    1,250 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Performing Garage Theater or concert hall
    1,220 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. NYS Department of Labor Lower Manhattan Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    690 feet
  2. Canal Street Post Office Listed historic place
    870 feet

Fire and police

  1. 1st Precinct Police station · landmark
    630 feet
  2. Ladder 8 Fire station
    840 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Gourmet Garage Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 69 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 23 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Holland Tunnel, Holland Tunnel Exit Pedestrian Overpass, Laight Street or Varick Street.

Sources: 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 Technology and Innovation, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.