Water Street & Gouverneur Slip West

Water Street and Gouverneur Slip West meet at a three-way junction in the Lower East Side, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. University Neighborhood High School is 530 feet away. The nearest subway, East Broadway, is about nine minutes on foot, for the F. Within a five-minute walk are 25 public places, five of them parks. About 2,900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1940 and 1964, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
East Broadway
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
870 feet
Madison St/Gouverneur St · M22
Within a walk
25 places
5 parks, 5 playgrounds and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Water Street & Gouverneur Slip West Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is East Broadway, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. East Broadway F
    0.4 miles
    F

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. F …
Brooklyn
1 line
  1. F …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Madison St/Gouverneur St, 870 feet away, for the M22.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Madison St/Gouverneur St M22
    870 feet
    M22

Next buses at this stop

  1. M22 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 16 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Clinton St & Cherry St 49 docks in all
    960 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive northbound, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2.8 miles
  2. 299 South Street Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    920 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Enhanced crossing, July 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10002
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 3
City Council district
1
Police precinct
7
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Lower East Side
Elevation
14 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,900 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 1940 and 1964.

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the pin oak and the swamp white oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2017 and March 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Gouverneur Slip West

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

West side of Gouverneur Slip West

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

South side of Water Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

  • 5 parks
  • 5 playgrounds
  • 5 schools
  • 4 listed historic places
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 184m Shuang Wen School
    520 feet
  2. University Neighborhood High School
    530 feet
  3. Manhattan Charter School II School
    1,310 feet
Show all 5
  1. Orchard Collegiate Academy School
    1,310 feet
  2. University Neighborhood Middle School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Vladeck Houses Community Garden - Vladeck Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    300 feet
  2. Lillian D Wald Playground
    330 feet
  3. East River Waterfront Esplanade Park
    420 feet
Show all 11
  1. Vladeck Park
    540 feet
  2. Pier 42 Park
    570 feet
  3. John V. Lindsay East River Park
    610 feet
  4. Cherry Clinton Playground
    770 feet
  5. Vladeck Park Playground
    850 feet
  6. Corlears Hook Park
    990 feet
  7. Pier 42 Playground
    1,030 feet
  8. Sol Lain Plgd Playground
    1,080 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Basketball City Public space
    570 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 4 Ambulance station
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Gouverneur Hospital Listed historic place
    180 feet
  2. Lower East Side Historic District (Boundary Increase) Listed historic place
    970 feet
  3. St. Augustine's Chapel Listed historic place
    1,130 feet
Show all 4
  1. Lillian Wald Residence Listed historic place
    1,180 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 334 Madison Street Older adult center
    870 feet
  2. Two Bridges Community Center
    950 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Metro Acres Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one food store.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Gouverneur Slip West or Water Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYCHA, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.