Worth Street & St James Place

Worth Street and St James Place meet at a four-way crossing in Chinatown-Two Bridges, Manhattan. The corner is also named Kimlau Square by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The statue “Lin Ze Xu” is 70 feet away, and Historical Records NY CNTY Clerk is 1,170 feet away. The nearest subway, Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 4, 5, 6 and two more. Within a five-minute walk are 49 public places and 142 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 4, 5, 6, J, Z
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
Park Row/Saint James Pl · M9, M103
Within a walk
49 places
17 religious buildings, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 12 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Worth Street & St James Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines at the nearest station
  • 12 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St 4, 5, 6, J, Z
    0.3 miles
    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
    0.4 miles
    6 J N Q R W Z
  2. East Broadway F
    0.5 miles
    F

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 Park Row/Saint James Pl, 170 feet away, for the M9 and M103.

  • 31 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Park Row/Saint James Pl M9, M103
    170 feet
    M9 M103

Next buses at this stop

  1. M9 …
  2. M103 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 17 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. St James Pl & Oliver St 48 docks in all
    100 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge northbound at Pearl Street & R F Wagner Sr Place, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported seven 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.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10038
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 3
City Council district
1
Police precinct
5
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Chinatown-Two Bridges
Elevation
29 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Kimlau Square, a co-naming enacted on February 27, 1959 (Local Law 17 of 1959).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 55 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Kimlau Square.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2017 and May 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 7:30am to 7pm on St James Place (west side).

West side of Oliver Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of St James Place

  • Truck loading only 3 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 100279.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are five Individual Landmarks, and six buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival. They were mostly built between 1801 and 1845.

  1. Saint James Roman Catholic Church Designated landmark
    370 feet
  2. Zion English Lutheran Designated landmark
    560 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Lin Ze Xu Statue by Li Wei-Si, 1999
    70 feet
  2. Kimlau War Memorial Arch, 1962
    100 feet
  3. Confucius Statue by Liu Shih, 1976
    470 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 49 public places.

  • 17 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 5 parks
  • 4 playgrounds
  • 4 trade or language schools
  • 14 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 001 Alfred E. Smith School
    400 feet
  2. Queens Community Center Trade or language school
    530 feet
  3. Transfiguration School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    710 feet
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  1. Transfiguration School Listed historic place
    710 feet
  2. Acare Training Trade or language school
    730 feet
  3. Hamilton Madison House Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    910 feet
  4. Chinatown Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    980 feet
  5. Chinatown Manpower Project Trade or language school
    1,220 feet
  6. Chintatown Manpower Project Trade or language school
    1,220 feet
  7. P.S. 124 Yung Wing School
    1,230 feet
  8. Metrokids Cradle (South End) Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,250 feet
  9. University Settlement Society of New York Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kimlau Square
    40 feet
  2. St. James Triangle
    210 feet
  3. Playground One Playground
    340 feet
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  1. Columbus Park
    500 feet
  2. Columbus Park Playground
    680 feet
  3. Alfred E. Smith Playground
    770 feet
  4. James Madison Plaza
    780 feet
  5. Thomas Paine Park
    1,060 feet
  6. Sophie Irene Loeb Playground
    1,230 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Doyers Street Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    690 feet
  2. Public space at Verizon Building Public space
    1,270 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Kimlau Arch Monument or memorial
    100 feet
  2. First Shearith Israel Graveyard Listed historic place
    240 feet
  3. Edward Mooney House Listed historic place
    790 feet
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  1. Chatham Square Library Landmark
    820 feet
  2. Two Bridges Historic District Listed historic place
    1,040 feet
  3. Historical Records NY CNTY Clerk Research library
    1,170 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Mariners Temple Baptist Church Landmark
    160 feet
  2. Chinese United Methodist Church House of worship
    580 feet
  3. Transfiguration Catholic Church Listed historic place
    660 feet
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  1. First Chinese Baptist NYC House of worship
    700 feet
  2. Chinese Evangelist Mission Church House of worship
    1,070 feet
  3. Trust in God Baptist Church House of worship
    1,110 feet
  4. Chinese Baptist Conservative Church House of worship
    1,170 feet
  5. First Chinese Presbyterian Church Listed historic place
    1,210 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Daniel Patrick Moynihan US Courthouse
    850 feet
  2. Supreme Court Civil Term Courthouse
    1,130 feet
  3. Alfred E Smith Recreation Center
    1,150 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    310 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    380 feet
  3. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

  1. New Kam Man Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Chinatown Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Hong Kong Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 142 places to eat and 21 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 19 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Oliver Street, St James Place or Worth Street.

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