Washington Square South & Sullivan Street

Washington Square South and Sullivan Street meet at a four-way crossing in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. The corner lies inside the South Village Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies stands 80 feet away, and Play Hills is 110 feet away. The nearest subway, W 4 St-Wash Sq, is about four minutes on foot, and ten subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 29 public places, six of them playgrounds, and 193 places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
W 4 St-Wash Sq
940 feet · 4 min on foot · A, B, C, D, E, F, M
Nearest bus stop
950 feet
6 Av/W 3 St · T232
Within a walk
29 places
6 playgrounds, 5 parks and 10 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Washington Square South & Sullivan Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is W 4 St-Wash Sq, 940 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

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

Also within a walk

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 6 Av/W 3 St, 950 feet away, for the T232.

  • 21 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 6 Av/W 3 St T232
    950 feet
    T232

Next buses at this stop

  1. T232 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Washington Square South.

  • 97 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 10 of them on-street corrals
  • 6 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sullivan St & Washington Sq 57 docks in all
    90 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
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2019.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, December 2022
  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2024

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
26 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,200 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 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 136 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2015 and February 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Sullivan Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Sullivan Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Washington Square South

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

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the South Village Historic District.

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 284 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival. They were mostly built between 1839 and 1900.

  1. Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies Designated landmark
    80 feet
  2. Judson Hall Designated landmark
    140 feet
  3. New York University School of Law; Vanderbilt Hall Designated landmark
    180 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
    270 feet
  2. George Washington Accompanied by Wisdom and Justice Statue by Alexander Stirling Calder, 1918
    520 feet
  3. Washington Square Arch Arch by Frederick William MacMonnies and Philip Martiny, 1895
    520 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Liu-New York University Campus College
    730 feet
  2. New York University College
    760 feet
  3. Academy of St Joseph School
    1,210 feet
Show all 4
  1. New York Studio School College · listed historic place
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Washington Square Park
    30 feet
  2. Play Hills Playground
    110 feet
  3. West 4th Street Courts Playground
    590 feet
Show all 12
  1. Fiorello La Guardia Park
    800 feet
  2. Minetta Playground
    860 feet
  3. Adrienne's Playground
    920 feet
  4. Minetta Green
    1,040 feet
  5. Minetta Triangle
    1,140 feet
  6. Toddler Playground
    1,150 feet
  7. Father Demo Square
    1,170 feet
  8. Washington Square Park Playground
    1,230 feet
  9. Sheridan Square Viewing Garden
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. New York University Libraries Research library
    730 feet
  2. NYU Tamiment Library Research library
    760 feet
  3. Fiorello H La Guardia Monument Monument or memorial
    910 feet
Show all 8
  1. Chaim Gross Studio Museum
    960 feet
  2. West 4th Street Subway Station (IND) Listed historic place
    1,050 feet
  3. Macdougal-Sullivan Gardens Historic District Listed historic place
    1,170 feet
  4. Caffe Cino Listed historic place
    1,210 feet
  5. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory (Brown Building) Listed historic place
    1,270 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. New York University Provincetown Playhouse Theater or concert hall · landmark
    330 feet
  2. New York University Frederick Loewe Theatre Theater or concert hall
    920 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Judson Memorial Church Landmark · listed historic place
    200 feet
  2. St Josephs Church Greenwich Village House of worship
    960 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 20 Washington Square North Older adult center
    1,120 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    730 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,160 feet
  3. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    970 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 193 places to eat and 17 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Sullivan 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.