Williamsburg Bridge & FDR Drive

Williamsburg Bridge and FDR Drive meet at a four-way crossing in the Lower East Side, Manhattan. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. About 800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built in 1955, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

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Williamsburg Bridge & FDR Drive

Cycling

  • 27 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at FDR Drive & Grand Street, 690 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    3 miles
  2. 299 South Street Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.7 miles

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
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

  • One travel lane
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 800 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 in 1955.

Trees

One tree recorded by NYC Parks stands within 330 feet, a Callery pear.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bus stop within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet
  • A listed public place within a five-minute walk

Sources: NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYPD, NYCHA and NYC Parks, retrieved September 19 – October 6, 2026.