Vesey Street & North End Avenue

Vesey Street and North End Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Financial District-Battery Park City, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Battery Park City is 50 feet away, and Battery Park City Ferry Landing is 400 feet away. The nearest subway, WTC Cortlandt, is about five minutes on foot, and 12 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, three of them playgrounds, and 37 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
WTC Cortlandt
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Vesey St/North End Av · M20
Within a walk
15 places
3 playgrounds, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Vesey Street & North End Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is WTC Cortlandt, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 12 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. WTC Cortlandt 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. Chambers St/WTC/Park Place/Cortlandt St 2, 3, A, C, E, R, W
    0.4 miles
    2 3 A C E R W
  2. Chambers St 1, 2, 3
    0.5 miles
    1 2 3

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “CHORUS” (2018) by Ann Hamilton at the WTC Cortlandt station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Vesey St/North End Av, 120 feet away, for the M20.

  • 27 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Vesey St/North End Av M20
    120 feet
    M20

Next buses at this stop

  1. M20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on North End Avenue and Vesey Street.

  • 23 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Vesey Pl & River Terrace 57 docks in all
    350 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge at Rose Street, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2 miles
  2. 250 Vesey Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    370 feet
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported three 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 May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2026

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 four travel lanes

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 2002 and 2008.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2016 and January 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of North End Avenue

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING HOTEL LOADING ZONE

North side of Vesey Street

  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Vesey Street

  • For-hire vehicles only 1 sign FOR-HIRE VEHICLES ONLY
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 ferry landings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 college
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Big and Tiny Vesey Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    110 feet
  2. I.S. 289 School
    1,150 feet
  3. P.S. 89 School
    1,150 feet
Show all 6
  1. Bright Horizons Children's Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    780 feet
  2. Hanhnemann School of Homeopathy Trade or language school
    1,160 feet
  3. Coll New Rochelle Dist Coun 31 CMPS College
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Battery Park City Park
    50 feet
  2. Nelson Rockefeller Park Playground South Playground
    440 feet
  3. Nelson Rockefeller Playground
    910 feet
Show all 4
  1. Battery Park City Playground
    1,250 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at One Eleven Murray Street Public space
    1,160 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Battery Park City Library
    430 feet
  2. New York Telephone Company Building (Barclay-Vesey Building) Listed historic place
    1,110 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    790 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Westfield World Trade Center Shopping center
    930 feet

Other places

  1. Battery Park City Ferry Landing
    400 feet
  2. North Cove Ferry Landing
    440 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 37 places to eat and five food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along North End Avenue or Vesey Street.

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