Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square

Neighborhood · Manhattan

Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square reaches from Union Square at 14th Street past Madison Square to the Empire State Building at 34th Street.

0.53 square miles
33,214 residents, 2020 Census
96 street corners
12 subway stations
65 bus routes

Union Square, opened as a park in 1839 where Broadway met the old Bowery Road, hosted the first Labor Day parade in 1882 and has held a Greenmarket since 1976. Daniel Burnham's Flatiron Building, completed in 1902 on a narrow triangular lot, gave the surrounding district its name, and the 102-story Empire State Building was finished in 1931. Theodore Roosevelt's re-created birthplace on East 20th Street, a national historic site, honors the 26th president, the first born in New York City.

Sources: Union Square, Manhattan (Wikipedia); Flatiron Building (Encyclopaedia Britannica); Empire State Building (Encyclopaedia Britannica); Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site (National Park Service).

Map

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Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square borders five areas, and 5th Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 23 of 96.

Street map of Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square, Manhattan, outlined among Chelsea-Hudson Yards, Midtown-Times Square, Gramercy and Greenwich Village, with its 12 subway stations and Union Square Park.

Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square
A neighboring area
Park
A station in the list
Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

34 St-Penn Station lines A C E accessible
34 St-Penn Station lines 1 2 3 accessible
34 St-Herald Sq lines B D F M N Q R W accessible
28 St lines 1
33 St lines 6
28 St lines R W
28 St lines 6
23 St lines F M
23 St lines R W
23 St-Baruch College lines 6 accessible
14 St / 6 Av lines F L M accessible
14 St-Union Sq lines 4 5 6 L N Q R W

Getting around

Twelve subway stations and buses on 65 routes stop in or at the edge of Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square.

12 subway stations
5 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
15 local bus routes
50 express bus routes

Local bus routes

L92
M1
M2
M3
M4
M5
M7
M14A-SBS
M14D-SBS
M20
M23-SBS
M34-SBS
M34A-SBS
M55
Q32

Express bus routes

BM1
BM2
BM3
BM4
BM5
BxM2
BxM3
BxM4
BxM6
BxM7
BxM8
BxM9
BxM10
BxM11
BxM18
QM1
QM2
QM4
QM5
QM6
QM10
QM12
QM15
QM16
QM17
QM18
QM20
QM21
QM24
QM63
QM64
QM68
SIM1C
SIM3
SIM3C
SIM4C
SIM6
SIM7
SIM9
SIM10
SIM11
SIM23
SIM24
SIM31
SIM33
SIM33C
X27
X28
X37
X38

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged more police-reported crashes than the average Manhattan corner.

1,629 police-reported crashes at its corners
17.0 a corner, on average
13.4 the average Manhattan corner
1 corner with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 63 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals: 53
Accessible pedestrian signals: 21
Turn calming: 11
Barnes Dance all-way crossings: 6
Safety Improvement Projects: 4

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more bus-lane camera tickets than school-zone speed or red-light tickets.

0 red-light camera tickets
5,053 school-zone speed camera tickets at three corners
36,833 bus-lane camera tickets at two corners

Most speed tickets: Avenue of the Americas & West 25th Street, 2,630
Most bus-lane tickets: 5th Avenue & 14th Street, 29,462

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 33,214 residents in Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square, about 62,700 per square mile.

19,679 homes, 2020 Census
4,412 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 502 residential lots hold buildings from 1910 or earlier, and 82% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland: 13.2 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces: Union Square Park (6.5 acres), Madison Square Park (6.2 acres) and Worth Square (0.3 acre)
Designated landmarks: The Aberdeen Hotel, the Empire State Building, 29th Street Towers and the Colony Club, among others
Historic districts: Ladies' Mile and Madison Square North, wholly or partly within Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square

Streets and trees

Trees: 1,201 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, maidenhair tree and Callery pear
Street with the most corners: 5th Avenue, with 23 of the area's 96
Height above sea level: From 23 feet at 8th Avenue & West 26th Street to 62 feet at 5th Avenue & 35th Street
Honorary street names: 3 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 14 schools and one library in Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square.

Public schools: 7
Charter and private schools: 7
Library: Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 23 bike-share stations stand in Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square. The City's public art inventory lists 13 works in the area, among them George Washington (1856), General William Jenkins Worth (1857) and Abraham Lincoln (1870).

23 bike-share stations
13 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 1,284 major felonies at places in Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square

1,189 major felonies in 2024
2,423 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square, the NYPD recorded another 1,106 major felonies.

Police precincts: 14th, 13th (most of the area), 10th

995

2021

1,347

2022

1,225

2023

1,189

2024

1,284

2025

Major felonies recorded at places in Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 576 major felonies at places in Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square, against 590 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.