Waverly Place & Grove Street

Waverly Place and Grove Street meet at a three-way junction in the West Village, Manhattan. The corner lies inside the Greenwich Village Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The statue “General Philip Henry Sheridan” is 130 feet away, and Washington Square Park is 1,040 feet away. The nearest subway, Christopher St-Stonewall, is about a minute on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 29 public places, seven of them listed historic places, and 204 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Christopher St-Stonewall
340 feet · 1 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
210 feet
Christopher St/Waverly Pl · M8
Within a walk
29 places
7 listed historic places, 7 religious buildings and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Waverly Place & Grove Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Christopher St-Stonewall, 340 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

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

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. W 4 St-Wash Sq A, B, C, D, E, F, M
    480 feet
    A B C D E F M
  2. 14 St/6 Av 1, 2, 3, F, L, M
    0.3 miles
    1 2 3 F L 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 Christopher St/Waverly Pl, 210 feet away, for the M8.

  • 25 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Christopher St/Waverly Pl M8
    210 feet
    M8

Next buses at this stop

  1. M8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 89 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 4 of them on-street corrals
  • 6 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 4 St & 7 Ave S 60 docks in all
    550 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive northbound at FDR Drive & East Houston Street at E Houston Street Pedestrian Overpass, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 139 Charles Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. West 24th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 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.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Enhanced crossing, July 2018

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
21 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 5,100 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 1885 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 78 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in March 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Grove Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 106573.

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, 540 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival, and mostly built between 1839 and 1893.

  1. The Northern Dispensary Designated landmark
    100 feet
  2. Switzer Institute and Home Designated landmark
    210 feet
  3. The Fellows (Company) Building Designated landmark
    210 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
    130 feet
  2. Gay Liberation Statues by George Segal, 1992
    210 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 public places.

  • 7 listed historic places
  • 7 religious buildings
  • 4 parks
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Academy of St Joseph School
    500 feet
  2. Perry Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    650 feet
  3. Barrow Street Nursery School at Greenwich House Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    760 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 041 Greenwich Village School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Christopher Park
    40 feet
  2. Sheridan Square Viewing Garden
    350 feet
  3. Jefferson Market Garden
    620 feet
Show all 7
  1. McCarthy Square
    640 feet
  2. Washington Square Park
    1,040 feet
  3. West 4th Street Courts Playground
    1,090 feet
  4. NYC AIDS Memorial Park at St. Vincent’s Triangle
    1,280 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Ruth Wittenberg Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    650 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Stonewall Listed historic place
    280 feet
  2. Stonewall National Monument Historic site
    320 feet
  3. Julius' Bar Listed historic place
    440 feet
Show all 9
  1. Greenwich Village Historic District Listed historic place
    500 feet
  2. West 4th Street Subway Station (IND) Listed historic place
    680 feet
  3. Lorraine Hansberry Residence Listed historic place
    890 feet
  4. Jefferson Market Library Listed historic place
    940 feet
  5. Houses at 26, 28 and 30 Jones Street Listed historic place
    1,180 feet
  6. Caffe Cino Listed historic place
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Josephs Church Greenwich Village House of worship
    510 feet
  2. St John's Evangelical Lutheran Church House of worship
    590 feet
  3. Darech Amuno Congregation House of worship
    920 feet
Show all 6
  1. St John Episcopal Church House of worship
    1,020 feet
  2. Neighborhood Church House of worship
    1,110 feet
  3. Manhattan Seven Day Adventist Church House of worship
    1,150 feet

Fire and police

  1. Squad 18 Fire station
    720 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    350 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    490 feet
  3. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    570 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    430 feet
  2. Lincoln Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Brooklyn Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    500 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 204 places to eat and 27 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 26 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Grove Street or Waverly Place.

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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.