Waverly Place & Charles Street

Waverly Place and Charles Street meet at a four-way crossing in the West Village, Manhattan. The corner is also named Frank Crapanzano Way by local law. It lies inside the Greenwich Village Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Darech Amuno Congregation is 510 feet away, and Academy of St Joseph is 940 feet away. The nearest subway, Christopher St-Stonewall, is about three minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 26 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 158 places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Christopher St-Stonewall
740 feet · 3 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
7 Av South/Waverly Pl · M20
Within a walk
26 places
6 religious buildings, 5 listed historic places and 10 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Waverly Place & Charles Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Christopher St-Stonewall, 740 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 11 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Christopher St-Stonewall 1
    740 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 14 St/6 Av 1, 2, 3, F, L, M
    910 feet
    1 2 3 F L M
  2. W 4 St-Wash Sq A, B, C, D, E, F, M
    920 feet
    A B C D E F M

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “The Greenwich Village Murals” (1994) by Lee Brozgol at the Christopher St-Stonewall station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 7 Av South/Waverly Pl, 170 feet away, for the M20.

  • 24 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 7 Av South/Waverly Pl M20
    170 feet
    M20

Next buses at this stop

  1. M20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 57 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral
  • 7 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Greenwich Ave & Charles St 57 docks in all
    380 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at Avenue C, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 139 Charles Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. West 24th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 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 February 2020.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10014
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 2
City Council district
3
Police precinct
6
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
West Village
Elevation
23 feet above sea level

This corner carries two co-namings: Frank Crapanzano Way (Local Law 48 of 2026, enacted on January 17, 2026) and McCarthy Square (Local Law 16 of 1943, enacted on June 5, 1943).

The streets

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

Homes

About 4,400 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 1884 and 1924.

Trees

NYC Parks records 75 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on each of these co-names.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 15 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2020 and August 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Charles Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

South side of Charles Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of Waverly Place

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Waverly Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 105137.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Greenwich Village Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 547 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival, and mostly built between 1844 and 1888.

  1. Switzer Institute and Home Designated landmark
    410 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. General Philip Henry Sheridan Statue by Joseph Pasquale Pollia, 1936
    560 feet
  2. Gay Liberation Statues by George Segal, 1992
    610 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 public places.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 5 listed historic places
  • 3 parks
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 8 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Perry Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    520 feet
  2. Academy of St Joseph School
    940 feet
  3. P.S. 041 Greenwich Village School
    1,070 feet
Show all 4
  1. Barrow Street Nursery School at Greenwich House Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. McCarthy Square
    20 feet
  2. Jefferson Market Garden
    640 feet
  3. Christopher Park
    650 feet
Show all 5
  1. NYC AIDS Memorial Park at St. Vincent’s Triangle
    670 feet
  2. Sheridan Square Viewing Garden
    920 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Ruth Wittenberg Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    910 feet

Health care

  1. Northwell Greenwich Village Hospital
    1,030 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Greenwich Village Historic District Listed historic place
    230 feet
  2. Julius' Bar Listed historic place
    260 feet
  3. Stonewall Listed historic place
    620 feet
Show all 7
  1. Stonewall National Monument Historic site
    660 feet
  2. Jefferson Market Library Listed historic place
    870 feet
  3. West 4th Street Subway Station (IND) Listed historic place
    1,130 feet
  4. Lorraine Hansberry Residence Listed historic place
    1,170 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St John Episcopal Church Landmark
    410 feet
  2. Darech Amuno Congregation Landmark
    510 feet
  3. Manhattan Seven Day Adventist Church Landmark
    530 feet
Show all 5
  1. St John's Evangelical Lutheran Church House of worship
    860 feet
  2. St Josephs Church Greenwich Village House of worship
    960 feet

Fire and police

  1. Squad 18 Fire station · landmark
    590 feet
  2. 6th Precinct Police station
    1,220 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    700 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    870 feet
  3. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    1,020 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    940 feet
  2. Westside Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Lincoln Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    780 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 158 places to eat and 24 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 23 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Charles Street or Waverly Place.

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