Worth Street & Baxter Street

Worth Street and Baxter Street meet at a three-way junction in Chinatown-Two Bridges, Manhattan. The corner is also named Five Points by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 20 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Columbus Park is 30 feet away, and P.S. 001 Alfred E. Smith is 1,150 feet away. The nearest subway, Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St, is about four minutes on foot, and 14 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 42 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 111 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
20 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St
1,020 feet · 4 min on foot · 4, 5, 6, J, Z
Nearest bus stop
450 feet
Worth St/Mott St · M22
Within a walk
42 places
10 religious buildings, 8 courthouses and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Worth Street & Baxter Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St, 1,020 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines at the nearest station
  • 14 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St 4, 5, 6, J, Z
    1,020 feet
    4 5 6 J Z

Next trains at this station

Uptown
3 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. 5 …
  3. 6 …
Downtown
5 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. 5 …
  3. 6 …
  4. J …
  5. Z …
Brooklyn
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. Canal St 6, J, N, Q, R, W, Z
    0.3 miles
    6 J N Q R W Z
  2. City Hall R, W
    0.4 miles
    R W

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Cable Crossing” (1996) by Mark Gibian at the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Worth St/Mott St, 450 feet away, for the M22.

  • 31 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Worth St/Mott St M22
    450 feet
    M22

Next buses at this stop

  1. M22 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 27 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 8 of them on-street corrals
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Centre St & Worth St 120 docks in all
    640 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge northbound at Pearl Street & R F Wagner Sr Place, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2 miles
  2. 123 Leonard Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    880 feet
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 20 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2025
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10013
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 1
City Council district
1
Police precinct
5
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Chinatown-Two Bridges
Elevation
21 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Five Points, a co-naming enacted on January 17, 2021 (Local Law 14 of 2021).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 67 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Five Points.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 14 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

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

East side of Baxter Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO DISTRICT ATTORNEY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO NYSJ MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Baxter Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO DISTRICT ATTORNEY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY

North side of Worth Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and four buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1801 and 1936.

  1. Zion English Lutheran Designated landmark
    390 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Dr. Sun Yat Sen Statue by Lu Chun-Hsiung, 2019
    490 feet
  2. Foley Square Medallions Medallions, 2000
    710 feet
  3. Kimlau War Memorial Arch, 1962
    720 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 42 public places.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 8 courthouses
  • 5 parks
  • 4 trade or language schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 12 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Transfiguration School Listed historic place
    750 feet
  2. Queens Community Center Trade or language school
    1,010 feet
  3. P.S. 001 Alfred E. Smith School
    1,150 feet
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  1. Chinatown Manpower Project Trade or language school
    1,080 feet
  2. Chintatown Manpower Project Trade or language school
    1,080 feet
  3. Transfiguration School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,190 feet
  4. District 2 Pre-K Center at 10 Reade Street Pre-K center
    1,210 feet
  5. Acare Training Trade or language school
    1,210 feet
  6. Chinese-American Planning Council Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Columbus Park
    30 feet
  2. Columbus Park Playground
    60 feet
  3. Thomas Paine Park
    320 feet
Show all 7
  1. Kimlau Square
    700 feet
  2. Collect Pond Park
    740 feet
  3. St. James Triangle
    950 feet
  4. Playground One Playground
    1,090 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Doyers Street Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,170 feet
  2. Municipal Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,220 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Historical Records NY CNTY Clerk Research library · landmark
    430 feet
  2. Kimlau Arch Monument or memorial
    730 feet
  3. Triumph of the Human Spirit Statue Monument or memorial
    740 feet
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  1. First Shearith Israel Graveyard Listed historic place
    980 feet
  2. Chambers Street Subway Station (BMT) Listed historic place
    1,200 feet
  3. Edward Mooney House Listed historic place
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Transfiguration Catholic Church Listed historic place
    450 feet
  2. St Andrews RC Church House of worship
    770 feet
  3. First Chinese Baptist NYC House of worship
    900 feet
Show all 5
  1. Mariners Temple Baptist Church House of worship
    910 feet
  2. Trust in God Baptist Church House of worship
    1,300 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Daniel Patrick Moynihan US Courthouse
    310 feet
  2. Supreme Court Civil Term Courthouse · landmark
    380 feet
  3. Supreme Court Criminal Term 100 Centre St Courthouse
    640 feet
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  1. Thurgood Marshall US Courthouse Landmark · listed historic place
    780 feet
  2. Supreme Court Criminal Term 111 Centre St Courthouse
    1,050 feet
  3. Manhattan Family Court Courthouse
    1,070 feet
  4. Criminal Court - Broadway Courthouse · listed historic place
    1,190 feet
  5. Surrogates Court Courthouse · listed historic place
    1,280 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    660 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    870 feet

Supermarkets

  1. New Kam Man Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Gourmet Garage Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Chinatown Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 111 places to eat and 11 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Baxter Street or Worth Street.

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, 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.