Water Street & Montgomery Street

Water Street and Montgomery Street meet at a four-way crossing in Chinatown-Two Bridges, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. East River Waterfront Esplanade is 210 feet away, and University Neighborhood Middle School is 1,070 feet away. The nearest subway, East Broadway, is about eight minutes on foot, for the F. Within a five-minute walk are 27 public places, six of them playgrounds, and one place to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
East Broadway
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
780 feet
Madison St/Montgomery St · M22
Within a walk
27 places
6 playgrounds, 5 parks and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Water Street & Montgomery Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is East Broadway, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight 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/Montgomery St, 780 feet away, for the M22.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Madison St/Montgomery St M22 · Shelter
    780 feet
    M22
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M22 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Montgomery Street.

  • 17 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
    720 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive northbound, 1,010 feet by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported five 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 June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2023
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

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)
Chinatown-Two Bridges
Elevation
17 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,300 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 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2017 and December 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Montgomery Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Water Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Water Street

  • No parking 2 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 27 public places.

  • 6 playgrounds
  • 5 parks
  • 5 schools
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 184m Shuang Wen School
    270 feet
  2. University Neighborhood High School
    710 feet
  3. Manhattan Charter School II School
    1,070 feet
Show all 5
  1. Orchard Collegiate Academy School
    1,070 feet
  2. University Neighborhood Middle School
    1,070 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. East River Waterfront Esplanade Park
    210 feet
  2. Lillian D Wald Playground
    240 feet
  3. Pier 42 Park
    330 feet
Show all 12
  1. John V. Lindsay East River Park
    370 feet
  2. Cherry Clinton Playground
    530 feet
  3. Vladeck Houses Community Garden - Vladeck Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    540 feet
  4. Vladeck Park
    780 feet
  5. Pier 42 Playground
    790 feet
  6. Vladeck Park Playground
    1,090 feet
  7. Little Flower Playground
    1,190 feet
  8. Sol Lain Plgd Playground
    1,200 feet
  9. Corlears Hook Park
    1,240 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Basketball City Public space
    330 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 4 Ambulance station
    1,050 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Gouverneur Hospital Listed historic place
    420 feet
  2. Lower East Side Historic District (Boundary Increase) Listed historic place
    730 feet
  3. Lillian Wald Residence Listed historic place
    1,200 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Two Bridges Community Center
    710 feet
  2. Older adult center at 334 Madison Street Older adult center
    1,110 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Montgomery Street or Water 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, NYCHA, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.