Catherine Street is a street in the New York City borough of Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood. At its southern end, it becomes Catherine Slip, though there are other sections of Catherine Slip besides the Catherine Street extension. Catherine Street is entirely one-way southbound for vehicular traffic, not including the Catherine Slip extension.
Catherine Street runs one-way south from its terminus at the intersection of Catherine Street, Division Street, The Bowery, Chatham Square/Park Row; for five blocks, terminating at Cherry Street, after which it changes to the two-way Catherine Slip.
Catherine Slip has two portions. Overall, both portions extend and surround the southern terminus of Catherine Street. One section of Catherine Slip is a southern extension of Catherine Street. That section is a two-way (north and south vehicular traffic) street with a center island.
The other section is not truly Catherine Slip, but is often labeled as such. It is essentially a C-shaped driveway surrounding a complex, whose fourth side (the open part of the C) is bounded by the southern end of Catherine Street and the northern end of the true city street portion of Catherine Slip (i.e., the two-way street portion). The bottom (southern) leg of the C extends westward from the end of the Catherine Slip's section of Water Street, continues west for about one block, then turns north for about one block, then turns west until ending at Catherine Street, opposite Monroe Street. The fourth, "open," side of the C combines the southern part of Catherine Street and the northern part of the true Catherine Slip.
This second section is a common mapmakers' mislabeling of the complex's surrounding drive as Catherine Slip, and features the oddity of the intersection of Catherine Slip and Catherine Slip.
The complex surrounded by this drive includes: