1st Avenue & East 30th Street

The four-way crossing of 1st Avenue and East 30th Street is in Murray Hill-Kips Bay, Manhattan, and is also named Dr. Saul J. Farber Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 32 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection. NYU School of Medicine is 680 feet away. The nearest bus stop, E 29 St/1 Av, is 280 feet away for the M9. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places and 24 places to eat.

Safety record
24 hurt
32 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
FDR Drive
700 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
280 feet
E 29 St/1 Av · M9
Within a walk
15 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 hospitals and 10 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
1st Avenue & East 30th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 29 St/1 Av, 280 feet away, for the M9.

  • 30 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 29 St/1 Av M9
    280 feet
    M9

Next buses at this stop

  1. M9 …

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 30th Street.

  • 32 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 4 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
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at FDR Drive & East 30th Street, 700 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 466 10th Avenue Gas station
    1.9 miles
  2. 575 1st Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    660 feet
  3. West 24th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 32 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection, a designation it applies to corners selected for attention on their injury record. It is not a record of work done.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2000
  • Turn calming, December 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10016
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 6
City Council district
4
Police precinct
13 and 17 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Murray Hill-Kips Bay
Elevation
28 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Dr. Saul J. Farber Way, a co-naming enacted on December 28, 2009 (Local Law 92 of 2009).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,400 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 1962 and 1970.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 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. Saul J. Farber Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 57 signs on these blocks
  • 22 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2022 and April 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on East 30th Street (south side).

East side of 1st Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO MEDICAL EXAMINER'S OFFICE 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS
  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO MEDICAL EXAMINERS OFFICE
  • Doctor plates only 3 signs DOCTOR LICENSE PLATES ONLY
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 1st Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Authorized vehicles only 3 signs AUTHORIZED VEHICLE ONLY DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION
  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO MEDICAL EXAMINERS OFFICE
  • No stopping 1 sign NO STOPPING ANYTIME

North side of East 30th Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 4PM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Authorized vehicles only 4 signs AVO MEDICAL EXAMINERS OFFICE
  • Doctor plates only 2 signs DOCTOR LICENSE PLATES ONLY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 103697, 105030 and 106622.

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
    750 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. NYU School of Medicine College
    680 feet
  2. Bellevue Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    740 feet
  3. Churchill School and Center School
    760 feet
Show all 4
  1. The Acorn School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bellevue South Park
    890 feet
  2. Bellevue South Park Playground
    900 feet
  3. Vincent F. Albano Jr. Playground
    1,020 feet
Show all 4
  1. Dog Run in Bellevue South Park Dog run
    1,140 feet

Plazas and public spaces

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

Health care

  1. NYU Langone Hospitals Hospital
    680 feet
  2. Bellevue Hospital Center Hospital
    980 feet
  3. EMS Station 8 Ambulance station
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. R & S Building Listed historic place
    500 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Good Shepherd Church House of worship
    1,050 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 16/Ladder 7 Fire station
    1,260 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,090 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fairway Market Supermarket
    720 feet
  2. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    990 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 places to eat and eight 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 30th 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.