1st Avenue & East 27th Street

The three-way junction of 1st Avenue and East 27th Street is in Murray Hill-Kips Bay, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 29 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. In 2025, 392 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Bellevue Hospital Center is 430 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 1 Av/E 27 St, is 40 feet away for the M9 and M15, and 29 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, five of them day care or pre-K sites, and 19 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
29 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
FDR Drive
0.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
1 Av/E 27 St · M9, M15
Within a walk
18 places
5 day care or pre-K sites, 3 playgrounds and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
1st Avenue & East 27th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 1 Av/E 27 St, 40 feet away, for the M9 and M15.

  • 29 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 1 Av/E 27 St M9, M15
    40 feet
    M9 M15

Next buses at this stop

  1. M9 …
  2. M15 …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on 1st Avenue.

  • 41 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 5 of them on-street corrals
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 27 St & 1 Ave 87 docks in all
    30 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at FDR Drive & East 30th Street, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 466 10th Avenue Gas station
    2 miles
  2. 350 East 30th Street Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    720 feet
  3. West 24th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 29 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 392 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,325th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 234 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10016
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)
Murray Hill-Kips Bay
Elevation
18 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four 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. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1970 and 1975.

Since 2014 at least 79 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the silver linden.

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Bellevue South Park.

  1. Skagerrak Sculpture by Antoni H. Milkowski, 1971
    420 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 public spaces
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 dog run
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Bellevue Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    40 feet
  2. The Acorn School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    520 feet
  3. Icd International Center for the Dis Trade or language school
    1,050 feet
Show all 7
  1. Churchill School and Center School
    1,110 feet
  2. Rose Hill Montessori Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,180 feet
  3. Baruch College Early Learning Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,200 feet
  4. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bellevue South Park
    360 feet
  2. Bellevue South Park Playground
    380 feet
  3. Dog Run in Bellevue South Park Dog run
    510 feet
Show all 5
  1. Asser Levy Playground
    1,190 feet
  2. Vincent F. Albano Jr. Playground
    1,300 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Alexandria Science Center Public space
    770 feet
  2. Public space at Parc East Tower Apartments Public space
    1,250 feet

Health care

  1. Bellevue Hospital Center Hospital
    430 feet
  2. EMS Station 8 Ambulance station
    480 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. R & S Building Listed historic place
    460 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fairway Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. D'Agostino Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    1,240 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 19 places to eat and seven food stores.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 1st Avenue or East 27th Street.

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