1st Avenue & East 29th Street

The four-way crossing of 1st Avenue and East 29th Street is in Murray Hill-Kips Bay, Manhattan, and is also named Dr. May Edward Chinn Place by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 28 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Churchill School and Center is 590 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 1 Av/E 29 St, is 40 feet away for the M15 SBS. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 24 places to eat.

Safety record
14 hurt
28 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
FDR Drive
960 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
1 Av/E 29 St · M15 SBS
Within a walk
17 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 2 hospitals and 10 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
1st Avenue & East 29th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 1 Av/E 29 St, 40 feet away, for the M15 SBS.

  • 30 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 1 Av/E 29 St M15 SBS · Shelter
    40 feet
    M15 SBS
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M15 SBS …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on 1st Avenue and East 29th Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 1 Ave & E 30 St 38 docks in all
    320 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at FDR Drive & East 30th Street, 960 feet by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 28 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 14 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 7 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2015

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10016
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 6
City Council district
4
Police precinct
13
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Murray Hill-Kips Bay
Elevation
25 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Dr. May Edward Chinn Place, a co-naming enacted on August 14, 2022 (Local Law 81 of 2022).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 3,200 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 1962 and 1975.

Since 2014 at least 23 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Dr. May Edward Chinn Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 26 signs on these blocks
  • 15 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2019 and April 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 1st Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO MEDICAL EXAMINER'S OFFICE 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS
  • Doctor plates only 3 signs DOCTOR LICENSE PLATES ONLY

West side of 1st Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Authorized vehicles only 3 signs AUTHORIZED VEHICLE ONLY DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION

North side of East 29th Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN'S SERVICES
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of East 29th Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDRENS SERVICES MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO FIRE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 106495.

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
    550 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 hospitals
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Bellevue Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    480 feet
  2. Churchill School and Center School
    590 feet
  3. NYU School of Medicine College
    940 feet
Show all 5
  1. The Acorn School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,040 feet
  2. Rose Hill Montessori Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bellevue South Park
    620 feet
  2. Bellevue South Park Playground
    640 feet
  3. Vincent F. Albano Jr. Playground
    800 feet
Show all 4
  1. Dog Run in Bellevue South Park Dog run
    880 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Alexandria Science Center Public space
    400 feet

Health care

  1. Bellevue Hospital Center Hospital
    720 feet
  2. NYU Langone Hospitals Hospital
    940 feet
  3. EMS Station 8 Ambulance station
    990 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. R & S Building Listed historic place
    240 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 16/Ladder 7 Fire station
    1,010 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fairway Market Supermarket
    980 feet
  2. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    730 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 places to eat and seven food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 1st Avenue or East 29th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, 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.