Watts Street & Holland Tunnel

Watts Street and Holland Tunnel meet at a three-way junction in SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square, Manhattan. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. NYS Department of Labor Lower Manhattan Workforce1 Career Center is 340 feet away. The nearest subway, Canal St, is about two minutes on foot, and 11 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, four of them parks, and 51 places to eat. About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Canal St
540 feet · 2 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
430 feet
Varick St/Watts St · M20
Within a walk
15 places
4 parks, 3 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Watts Street & Holland Tunnel Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Canal St, 540 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 11 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Canal St 1
    540 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Canal St A, C, E
    1,130 feet
    A C E
  2. Spring St C, E
    0.3 miles
    C E

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Varick St/Watts St, 430 feet away, for the M20.

  • 15 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Varick St/Watts St M20
    430 feet
    M20

Next buses at this stop

  1. M20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Varick St & Watts St 49 docks in all
    430 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge at Rose Street, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    1.4 miles
  2. 123 Leonard Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10013
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 2
City Council district
1
Police precinct
1
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square
Elevation
9 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 93 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 53 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the eastern redbud.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are 12 Individual Landmarks, and 59 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Federal. They were mostly built between 1867 and 1909.

  1. Holland Plaza Building Designated landmark
    280 feet
  2. Holland Tunnel Administration Building Designated landmark
    470 feet
  3. Fleming Smith Warehouse Designated landmark
    680 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Juan Pablo Duarte Statue by Nicola Arrighini, 1978
    730 feet
  2. Canal Waterworks Fountain by Elyn Zimmerman, 2009
    750 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 parks
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 museums
  • 2 public spaces
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Language Institute for English Trade or language school
    340 feet
  2. Vivvi 1 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    580 feet
  3. Broome Street Academy Charter High School
    940 feet
Show all 6
  1. Chelsea Career and Technical Education High School
    1,010 feet
  2. NYC Ischool School
    1,010 feet
  3. The Montessori in Soho Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Albert Capsouto Park
    770 feet
  2. Duarte Square
    850 feet
  3. Canal Park
    1,020 feet
Show all 4
  1. Grand Canal Court Park
    1,230 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Freeman Plaza West Public space
    140 feet
  2. Public space at The Dominick Public space
    1,070 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Jackie Robinson Museum
    580 feet
  2. New York City Fire Museum
    1,030 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. NYS Department of Labor Lower Manhattan Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    340 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 51 places to eat and seven food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Holland Tunnel or Watts Street.

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