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How walkable is Times Square?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Times Square has a walkability score of 98 out of 100 across the 400 m around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. It is the 4th most walkable of 5 neighbourhoods ranked in New York City, which scores 93 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
14,622 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Times Square. The nearest grocery is Tradiverse Corporation, about a minute away on foot. Every category earns full or nearly full points.
- Nuts 4 Nuts1 min
- Time Square Brewery3 min
- Raising Cane's1 min
- Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.1 min
- Foot Locker1 min
- Billabong/Element Times Square1 min
- Macchiato Espresso and Wine Bar1 min
- Starbucks1 min
- Nonghyup Bank3 min
- Actors Federal Credit Union3 min
- Bryant Park6 min
- Marsh & McLennan Public Space6 min
- Repertory Company High School for Theatre Arts3 min
- THINK Global School4 min
- CUNY Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism6 min
- Midtown Comics6 min
- Carolyn Rossi Copeland Productions1 min
- Playstation Theater1 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Times Square at 40.7573, -73.9859. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 64 street intersections per km², and blocks average 137 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 2%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Times Square
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 400 m around the centre of Times Square. Rings mark 200 m and 400 m from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in New York City
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Greenwich Village | 3 km | 100 |
| Upper East Side | 3.3 km | 94 |
| Tribeca | 5.1 km | 100 |
| Lower Manhattan | 5.1 km | 100 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the New York City page.
Questions about walking in Times Square
Is Times Square walkable?
Yes. Times Square in New York City has a walkability score of 98 out of 100 across the 400 m around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car.
Is Times Square more walkable than the rest of New York City?
Times Square is more walkable than New York City as a whole: it scores 98, against 93 for the 5 km around New York City's centre. It ranks 4th of the 5 New York City neighbourhoods on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in New York City?
Of the 5 New York City neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Greenwich Village (100), Tribeca (100) and Lower Manhattan (100).
How is the walkability score of Times Square calculated?
The score counts groceries, restaurants, shops, cafés, banks, parks, schools, libraries and cultural venues within a 30 minute walk, gives nearer places more weight, and deducts up to 20% where streets are sparse or blocks are long. For Times Square it is the average of 61 points spread evenly across the 400 m around its mapped centre, leaving out water and land without streets, using open map data from Overture Maps and OpenStreetMap.
Scores follow a published walkability method, explained in the methodology. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.