5th Avenue & East 106th Street

The three-way junction of 5th Avenue and East 106th Street is in East Harlem (South), Manhattan, and is also named Terence Cardinal Cooke Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 19 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Conservatory Garden in Central Park is 20 feet away, and Untermyer Fountain in Central Park is 230 feet away. The nearest subway, 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 2 and 3. Within a five-minute walk are 29 public places and nine places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
19 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
110 St-Malcolm X Plaza
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
5 Av/E 106 St · M1, M2, M3, M4 +1
Within a walk
29 places
7 park features, 7 schools and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
5th Avenue & East 106th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    2 3

Next trains at this station

Uptown
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …
Downtown
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. 103 St 6
    0.4 miles
    6
  2. 110 St 6
    0.5 miles
    6

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Message from Malcolm” (1998) by Maren Hassinger at the 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 5 Av/E 106 St, 60 feet away, for the M1, M2, M3, M4 and M106.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 5 Av/E 106 St M1, M2, M3, M4 +1
    60 feet
    M1 M2 M3 M4 M106

Next buses at this stop

  1. M1 …
  2. M2 …
  3. M3 …
  4. M4 …
  5. M106 …

Live arrivals

A lane DOT records as a shared lane, not a bus-only lane, runs along 5th Avenue, 7am to 10am on weekdays.

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on East 106th Street.

  • 12 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 106 St & Madison Ave 25 docks in all
    570 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 1599 Lexington Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1425 Madison Avenue Charging for electric cars, 32 Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 19 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2013
  • Turn calming, January 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10029
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 11
City Council district
6 and 8 and 9 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
22 and 23 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Harlem (South)
Elevation
21 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Terence Cardinal Cooke Way, a co-naming enacted on January 17, 2021 (Local Law 14 of 2021).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Terence Cardinal Cooke Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 14 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2015 and April 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 5th Avenue

  • Ambulances only 2 signs AMBULANCE ONLY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of East 106th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of East 106th Street

  • Ambulances only 2 signs AMBULANCE ONLY
  • Back-in parking only 2 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-1PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and four buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1928 and 1930.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Central Park.

  1. Vanderbilt Gates Ornamental gates, 1939
    350 feet
  2. McGown's Pass Cannons Artillery, 1906
    470 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 public places.

  • 7 park features
  • 7 schools
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 3 research libraries
  • 2 museums
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Union Settlement Association Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    630 feet
  2. Reece School
    770 feet
  3. Central Park East High School
    810 feet
Show all 8
  1. Central Park East I School
    810 feet
  2. East Harlem Scholars Academy Charter School II School
    810 feet
  3. P.S. 171 Patrick Henry School
    940 feet
  4. Edward A. Reynolds West Side High School
    1,230 feet
  5. Cristo Rey High School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Conservatory Garden in Central Park Park feature
    20 feet
  2. Central Park Listed historic place
    60 feet
  3. Untermyer Fountain in Central Park Park feature
    230 feet
Show all 11
  1. Fort Clinton in Central Park Park feature
    460 feet
  2. Bernard Family Playground
    480 feet
  3. Burnett Memorial Fountain in Central Park Park feature
    630 feet
  4. Mae Grant Playground
    810 feet
  5. McGowans Pass in Central Park Park feature
    820 feet
  6. East Meadow in Central Park Park feature
    1,100 feet
  7. Harlem Meer in Central Park Park feature
    1,160 feet
  8. Peter Minuit Playground
    1,310 feet

Health care

  1. Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. El Museo del Barrio Museum
    350 feet
  2. Puerto Rican Cultural Heritage Library Research library
    480 feet
  3. Museum of the City of New York Museum · landmark
    770 feet
Show all 6
  1. New York Academy of Medicine Research library
    960 feet
  2. Duke Ellington Statue Monument or memorial
    1,080 feet
  3. Medical Library Ctr of New York Research library
    1,230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bethel Christian Temple House of worship
    1,230 feet
  2. Church of the Good Neighbor House of worship
    1,300 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Lehman Community Center
    1,000 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 5th Avenue or East 106th 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, NYCHA, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.