West Street & Chambers Street

West Street and Chambers Street meet at a four-way crossing in Financial District-Battery Park City, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 41 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. In 2025, 11,244 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. I.S. 289 is 400 feet away, and Bogardus Plaza is 1,310 feet away. The nearest subway, Chambers St, is about four minutes on foot, and eight subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 24 public places, five of them schools, and 41 places to eat.

Safety record
21 hurt
41 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Chambers St
1,130 feet · 4 min on foot · 1, 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
480 feet
Chambers St/Greenwich St · M20, M22
Within a walk
24 places
5 schools, 4 parks and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West Street & Chambers Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Chambers St, 1,130 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  • 8 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Chambers St 1, 2, 3
    1,130 feet
    1 2 3

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Chambers St/WTC/Park Place/Cortlandt St 2, 3, A, C, E, R, W
    0.3 miles
    2 3 A C E R W
  2. WTC Cortlandt 1
    0.4 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Chambers St/Greenwich St, 480 feet away, for the M20 and M22.

  • 23 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Chambers St/Greenwich St M20, M22
    480 feet
    M20 M22

Next buses at this stop

  1. M20 …
  2. M22 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Chambers Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Murray St & West St (NE Corner) 61 docks in all
    830 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge at Rose Street, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    1.7 miles
  2. 325 North End Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    820 feet
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 41 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 21 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 7 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2016

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 11,244 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 51st most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 5,745 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10007
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 1
City Council district
1
Police precinct
1
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Financial District-Battery Park City

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 4,600 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 between 1975 and 2005.

Trees

NYC Parks records 80 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 27 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

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

North side of Chambers Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Chambers Street

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-6PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

East side of West Street

  • Metered parking 3 signs 4 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 104798.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are eight Individual Landmarks, and 30 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Federal. They were built between 1796 and 1931.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 public places.

  • 5 schools
  • 4 parks
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 colleges
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 8 other places

Schools and child care

  1. BMCC Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    240 feet
  2. I.S. 289 School
    400 feet
  3. P.S. 89 School
    400 feet
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  1. Stuyvesant High School
    480 feet
  2. P.S. 234 Independence School
    540 feet
  3. Hanhnemann School of Homeopathy Trade or language school
    730 feet
  4. Kindercare Education at Work Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    780 feet
  5. Borough Manhattan Comm College
    790 feet
  6. Coll New Rochelle Dist Coun 31 CMPS College
    1,090 feet
  7. Bright Horizons Children's Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,250 feet
  8. German School Manhattan School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Washington Market Park
    100 feet
  2. Battery Park City Park
    340 feet
  3. Tribeca Dog Run Warren Street Dog run
    410 feet
Show all 7
  1. Hudson River Park
    420 feet
  2. Washington Market Park Playground
    500 feet
  3. Tribeca Dog Run Park
    540 feet
  4. Nelson Rockefeller Playground
    1,290 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at One Eleven Murray Street Public space
    730 feet
  2. Public space at 101 Barclay Street Public space
    1,310 feet
  3. Bogardus Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,310 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Chambers Street Subway Station (Dual System IRT) Listed historic place
    1,180 feet
  2. Building at 75 Murray Street Listed historic place
    1,310 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 310 Greenwich Street Older adult center
    1,260 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    700 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,090 feet
  3. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    1,160 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    780 feet

Pharmacies

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

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Westfield World Trade Center Shopping center
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 41 places to eat and eight food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Chambers Street or West Street.

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