Washington Place & Barrow Street

Washington Place and Barrow Street meet at a four-way crossing in the West Village, Manhattan. The corner is also named Charles Ludlam Corner by local law. It lies inside the Greenwich Village Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Corn Exchange Bank (later Chemical Bank of New York Trust Co.) stands 230 feet away. The nearest subway, Christopher St-Stonewall, is about a minute on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 34 public places and 205 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Christopher St-Stonewall
320 feet · 1 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
500 feet
Christopher St/Waverly Pl · M8
Within a walk
34 places
7 listed historic places, 7 religious buildings and 10 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Washington Place & Barrow Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Christopher St-Stonewall, 320 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 11 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Christopher St-Stonewall 1
    320 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. W 4 St-Wash Sq A, B, C, D, E, F, M
    760 feet
    A B C D E F M
  2. 14 St/6 Av 1, 2, 3, F, L, M
    0.4 miles
    1 2 3 F L M

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “The Greenwich Village Murals” (1994) by Lee Brozgol at the Christopher St-Stonewall station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Christopher St/Waverly Pl, 500 feet away, for the M8.

  • 25 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Christopher St/Waverly Pl M8
    500 feet
    M8

Next buses at this stop

  1. M8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Washington Pl & 6 Ave 76 docks in all
    500 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, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 2 Washington Square Village Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. West 24th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 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 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10014
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 2
City Council district
3
Police precinct
6
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
West Village
Elevation
19 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Charles Ludlam Corner, a co-naming enacted on December 9, 1988 (Local Law 81 of 1988).

The streets

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

Homes

About 4,900 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 1884 and 1916.

Trees

NYC Parks records 87 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Charles Ludlam Corner.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 7 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2020 and September 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Barrow Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Barrow Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

South side of Washington Place

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Greenwich Village Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 553 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival. They were mostly built between 1834 and 1895.

  1. Corn Exchange Bank (later Chemical Bank of New York Trust Co.) Designated landmark
    230 feet
  2. St. Joseph's Washington Place School Designated landmark
    260 feet
  3. The Rectory of St. Joseph's Church Designated landmark
    300 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. General Philip Henry Sheridan Statue by Joseph Pasquale Pollia, 1936
    260 feet
  2. Gay Liberation Statues by George Segal, 1992
    280 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 34 public places.

  • 7 listed historic places
  • 7 religious buildings
  • 5 parks
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 10 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Academy of St Joseph School
    320 feet
  2. Barrow Street Nursery School at Greenwich House Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    410 feet
  3. Perry Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,190 feet
Show all 4
  1. Great Oaks Kathleen Sherry Charter School
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sheridan Square Viewing Garden
    30 feet
  2. Christopher Park
    290 feet
  3. West 4th Street Courts Playground
    680 feet
Show all 10
  1. Washington Square Park
    910 feet
  2. Minetta Playground
    950 feet
  3. McCarthy Square
    990 feet
  4. Minetta Green
    1,140 feet
  5. Father Demo Square
    1,160 feet
  6. Jefferson Market Garden
    1,160 feet
  7. Play Hills Playground
    1,180 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Ruth Wittenberg Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,120 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. West 4th Street Subway Station (IND) Listed historic place
    520 feet
  2. Houses at 26, 28 and 30 Jones Street Listed historic place
    760 feet
  3. Stonewall Listed historic place
    820 feet
Show all 8
  1. Stonewall National Monument Historic site
    860 feet
  2. Lorraine Hansberry Residence Listed historic place
    870 feet
  3. Julius' Bar Listed historic place
    920 feet
  4. Greenwich Village Historic District Listed historic place
    950 feet
  5. Caffe Cino Listed historic place
    1,020 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. New York University Provincetown Playhouse Theater or concert hall
    1,060 feet
  2. Cherry Lane Theatre Theater or concert hall
    1,190 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Josephs Church Greenwich Village Landmark
    360 feet
  2. St John's Evangelical Lutheran Church House of worship
    570 feet
  3. Neighborhood Church House of worship
    870 feet
Show all 5
  1. Darech Amuno Congregation House of worship
    900 feet
  2. Our Lady of Pompeii Church House of worship
    1,270 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 25 Carmine Street Older adult center
    1,220 feet

Fire and police

  1. Squad 18 Fire station
    1,260 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    270 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    470 feet
  3. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    660 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    210 feet
  2. Brooklyn Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Lincoln Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 205 places to eat and 24 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 20 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Barrow Street or Washington Place.

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 Records, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.