Williamsburg Bridge & Delancey Street at Lewis Street

Williamsburg Bridge, Delancey Street and Lewis Street meet at a seven-way junction in the Lower East Side, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. NY Center for Child Dev Grand St Set is 450 feet away. The nearest subway, Delancey St-Essex St, is about ten minutes on foot, for the F, J, M and Z. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, four of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

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Williamsburg Bridge & Delancey Street at Lewis Street Nearby corners, linked

Subway

The nearest subway station is Delancey St-Essex St, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  1. Delancey St-Essex St F, J, M, Z
    0.5 miles
    F J M Z

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. F …
Brooklyn
4 lines
  1. F …
  2. J …
  3. M …
  4. Z …
Inbound
3 lines
  1. J …
  2. M …
  3. Z …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Shad Crossing, Delancey Orchard” (2004) by Ming Fay at the Delancey St-Essex St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Delancey St/Columbia St, 630 feet away, for the M14D SBS and M21.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Delancey St/Columbia St M14D SBS, M21
    630 feet
    M14D SBS M21

Next buses at this stop

  1. M14D SBS …
  2. M21 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Lewis Street and Williamsburg Bridge Bike and Pedestrian Path.

  • 32 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Columbia St & Rivington St 42 docks in all
    1,000 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at FDR Drive & Grand Street, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2.6 miles
  2. 107 Essex Street Charging for electric cars, nine Level 2 chargers and four fast chargers
    0.7 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10002
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 3
City Council district
1 and 2 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
7
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Lower East Side

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 4,000 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 1955 and 1962.

Trees

NYC Parks records 22 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 63 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2020 and August 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Delancey Street

  • Back-in parking only 5 signs BACK IN 60 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • Back-in parking only 2 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Delancey Street

  • Back-in parking only 5 signs BACK IN 90 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • Back-in parking only 5 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

East side of Lewis Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Lewis Street

  • Back-in parking only 5 signs BACK IN 90 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, the Landmarks Preservation Commission has designated one lamppost.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 parks
  • 1 nursing home or hospice

Schools and child care

  1. Grand Street Settlement Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    30 feet
  2. NY Center for Child Dev Grand St Set School
    450 feet
  3. P.S. 110 Florence Nightingale School
    580 feet
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  1. East River Child Devlp Cntr - 570 School
    650 feet
  2. East River Child Development Center Preschool
    1,090 feet
  3. Dewitt Reformed Church Preschool · Pre-K
    1,120 feet
  4. Kids-Centric, Inc Dewitt Headstart School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sidney Hillman Playground
    150 feet
  2. Luther Gulick Park
    650 feet
  3. Luther Gulick Park Playground
    700 feet
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  1. John V. Lindsay East River Park
    860 feet
  2. Henry M. Jackson Playground
    1,000 feet

Health care

  1. New East Side Nursing Home Nursing home or hospice
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Lutowisker Chevra Synagogues House of worship
    640 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    880 feet
  2. Fine Fare Supermarket
    920 feet
  3. Lidl Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

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