1st Avenue & East 22nd Street

The four-way crossing of 1st Avenue and East 22nd Street is in Gramercy, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. In 2025, 322 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Holy Trinity Slovak Lutheran Church is 730 feet away, and Asser Levy Recreation Center is 1,230 feet away. The nearest subway, 1 Av, is about seven minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 33 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
1 Av
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
200 feet
1 Av/E 23 St · M9
Within a walk
19 places
5 religious buildings, 4 schools and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
1st Avenue & East 22nd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 1 Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 1 Av L
    0.4 miles
    L

Next trains at this station

West Side
1 line
  1. L …
Brooklyn
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. 23 St-Baruch College 6
    0.5 miles
    6

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Queens of the Night; Superhero Responds” (2021) by Katherine Bradford at the 1 Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 1 Av/E 23 St, 200 feet away, for the M9.

  • 26 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 1 Av/E 23 St M9
    200 feet
    M9

Next buses at this stop

  1. M9 …

Live arrivals

A bus lane runs along 1st Avenue, all day, every day.

Cycling

  • 73 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 23 St & 1 Ave 27 docks in all
    360 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at Avenue C, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2.5 miles
  2. 350 East 30th Street Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.2 miles
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, May 2017
  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2018

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 322 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,427th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 204 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10010
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 6
City Council district
2 and 4 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
13
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gramercy
Elevation
12 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Three of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 5,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1947 and 1968.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 43 signs on these blocks
  • 15 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2019 and December 2024; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 1st Avenue

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Taxi stand 1 sign TAXI STAND

West side of 1st Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 3 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

North side of East 22nd Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 103012 and 107748.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 trade or language schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    540 feet
  2. J.H.S. 104 Simon Baruch School
    640 feet
  3. Philip Xavier Center Trade or language school
    800 feet
Show all 7
  1. Icd International Center for the Dis Trade or language school
    840 feet
  2. Epiphany School (The) School
    1,030 feet
  3. M.S. 255 Salk School of Science School
    1,110 feet
  4. P.S. 040 Augustus Saint-Gaudens School
    1,110 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Asser Levy Playground
    1,020 feet
  2. Peter's Field
    1,020 feet
  3. Augustus St. Gaudens Playground
    1,170 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Gilman Hall Public space
    1,300 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Epiphany Library
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Chabad of Gramercy Park House of worship
    640 feet
  2. Holy Trinity Slovak Lutheran Church House of worship
    730 feet
  3. Epiphany Church House of worship
    950 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Asser Levy Recreation Center
    1,230 feet
  2. Asser Levy Pool Swimming pool
    1,240 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    580 feet
  2. TD Bank Bank branch
    770 feet

Supermarkets

  1. D'Agostino Supermarket
    450 feet
  2. Morton Williams Supermarket
    890 feet
  3. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    560 feet
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,190 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 33 places to eat and ten food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 1st Avenue or East 22nd Street.

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