Water Street & Moore Street

Water Street and Moore Street meet at a three-way junction in Financial District-Battery Park City, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The Battery is 220 feet away. The nearest subway, Whitehall St-South Ferry, is about a minute on foot, and nine subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 39 public places, five of them parks, and 111 places to eat. About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built in 1969, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Whitehall St-South Ferry
310 feet · 1 min on foot · 1, R, W
Nearest bus stop
210 feet
State St/Whitehall St · M20, M55
Within a walk
39 places
10 public spaces, 5 parks and 14 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Water Street & Moore Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Whitehall St-South Ferry, 310 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  • 9 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Whitehall St-South Ferry 1, R, W
    310 feet
    1 R W

Next trains at this station

Uptown
3 lines
  1. 1 …
  2. R …
  3. W …
Downtown
2 lines
  1. R …
  2. W …

Also within a walk

  1. Bowling Green 4, 5
    940 feet
    4 5
  2. Broad St J, Z
    0.3 miles
    J Z

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Passages” (2000) by Frank Giorgini and “See it split, see it change” (2009) by Doug & Michael Starn at the Whitehall St-South Ferry station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is State St/Whitehall St, 210 feet away, for the M20 and M55.

  • 28 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. State St/Whitehall St M20, M55
    210 feet
    M20 M55

Next buses at this stop

  1. M20 …
  2. M55 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 40 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 6 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Pearl St & Whitehall St 44 docks in all
    380 feet

By car

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

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2.8 miles
  2. 1 West Street Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 299 South Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

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. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2010

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10004
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 1
City Council district
1
Police precinct
1
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Financial District-Battery Park City
Elevation
6 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,600 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 in 1969.

Since 2014 at least 330 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 67 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2017 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Moore Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Moore Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Water Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING HOTEL LOADING ZONE
  • Truck loading only 3 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are five Individual Landmarks, and 28 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival. They were built between 1719 and 1983.

  1. Block Hall Designated landmark
    770 feet
  2. American Bank Note Company Office Building Designated landmark
    780 feet
  3. Interborough Rapid Transit System, Battery Park Control House Designated landmark
    800 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Coast Guard Memorial Statue by Norman Millet Thomas, 1955
    310 feet
  2. Coenties Ship Sculpture by Bryan Hunt, 2006
    580 feet
  3. John Wolfe Ambrose Bust by Andrew O'Connor, Jr. and Frederick George Richard Roth, 1936
    580 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 39 public places.

  • 10 public spaces
  • 5 parks
  • 5 schools
  • 4 listed historic places
  • 2 ferry landings
  • 13 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Bright Horizons at Broad Street Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    570 feet
  2. Urban Assembly New York Harbor School
    930 feet
  3. Millennium High School
    970 feet
Show all 7
  1. Manhattan Language Trade or language school
    1,310 feet
  2. Lower Manhattan Community Middle School
    1,310 feet
  3. Richard R. Green High School of Teaching School
    1,310 feet
  4. Urban Assembly School of Business for Young Women, The School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Peter Minuit Plaza in The Battery Park feature
    210 feet
  2. The Battery Park
    220 feet
  3. Battery Park Playground
    570 feet
Show all 9
  1. Vietnam Veterans Plaza
    640 feet
  2. East River Waterfront Esplanade Park
    640 feet
  3. Bowling Green Listed historic place
    880 feet
  4. Admiral Dewey Promenade in The Battery Park feature
    1,130 feet
  5. Old Slip Park
    1,140 feet
  6. The Queen Elizabeth II September 11th Garden
    1,190 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 1 State Street Plaza Public space
    400 feet
  2. Public space at 4 New York Plaza Public space
    480 feet
  3. Coenties Slip Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    670 feet
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  1. Public space at 1 New York Plaza Public space
    520 feet
  2. Public space at 1 Battery Park Plaza Public space
    640 feet
  3. Public space at 17 State Street Public space
    670 feet
  4. Public space at 2 New York Plaza Public space
    740 feet
  5. Public space at Goldman Sachs Public space
    750 feet
  6. Public space at 100 Pearl Street Public space
    1,040 feet
  7. Public space at 55 Water Street Public space
    1,070 feet
  8. Public space at 55 Broad Street Public space
    1,150 feet

Health care

  1. MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing home or hospice
    1,070 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Fraunces Tavern Museum Listed historic place
    370 feet
  2. Fraunces Tavern Block Listed historic place
    520 feet
  3. National Museum of the American Indian Museum · landmark · listed historic place
    760 feet
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  1. Stone Street Historic District Listed historic place
    1,050 feet
  2. New York Cotton Exchange (India House) Listed historic place
    1,140 feet
  3. Charging Bull Statue Public artwork
    1,240 feet
  4. International Mercantile Marine Company Building (U.S. Lines) Listed historic place
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Elizabeth Ann Seton Shrine Listed historic place
    440 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. US Bankruptcy Court Courthouse · landmark · listed historic place
    810 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    750 feet
  2. Apple Bank Bank branch
    1,220 feet
  3. Citibank Bank branch
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    640 feet

Other places

  1. Whitehall Ferry Terminal Ferry landing · landmark
    760 feet
  2. Governors Island Ferry Manhattan Terminal Ferry landing · landmark · listed historic place
    830 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 111 places to eat and four food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 18 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Moore Street 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.