5th Avenue & East 68th Street

The four-way crossing of 5th Avenue and East 68th Street is in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, Manhattan, at the edge of Central Park. It lies on the edge of the Upper East Side Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Billy Johnson Playground is 210 feet away, and the statue “Balto” is 580 feet away. The nearest subway, 68 St-Hunter College, is about six minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places and 17 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
68 St-Hunter College
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
140 feet
5 Av/E 69 St · M1, M2, M3, M4 +3
Within a walk
19 places
4 park features, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
5th Avenue & East 68th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 68 St-Hunter College, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 68 St-Hunter College 6
    0.3 miles
    6

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. 6 …
Downtown
1 line
  1. 6 …

Also within a walk

  1. 5 Av/59 St N, R, W
    0.4 miles
    N R W

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Tempestuous Terrain; Liminal Location” (2024) by Lisa Corinne Davis at the 68 St-Hunter College station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 5 Av/E 69 St, 140 feet away, for the M1, M2, M3, M4 and three more.

  • 22 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 5 Av/E 69 St M1, M2, M3, M4 +3
    140 feet
    M1 M2 M3 M4 BxM3 BxM4 BxM11

Next buses at this stop

  1. M1 …
  2. M2 …
  3. M3 …
  4. M4 …
  5. BxM3 …
  6. BxM4 …
  7. BxM11 …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

  • 15 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 70 St & Madison Ave 44 docks in all
    980 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Queensboro Bridge at Queensboro Bridge & 2nd Avenue at East 59th Street, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 720 11th Avenue Gas station
    1.9 miles
  2. 301 East 79th Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported four crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2023
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10065
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 8
City Council district
4 and 6 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
19 and 22 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill; the corner is on the edge of the Central Park area
Elevation
70 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 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 1909 and 1949.

Trees

NYC Parks records 73 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 17 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2015 and January 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 5th Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

North side of East 68th Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY CONSUL-C DIPLOMAT-A & D LICENSE PLATES D/S DECALS ONLY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of East 68th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Upper East Side Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 163 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Beaux-Arts, and mostly built between 1879 and 1913.

  1. Hotel Westbury Designated landmark
    580 feet
  2. Frick Art Reference Library Designated landmark
    750 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. One Hundred Seventh Infantry Memorial Statue by Karl Morningstar Illava, 1927
    270 feet
  2. Balto Statue by Frederick George Richard Roth, 1925
    580 feet
  3. Richard Morris Hunt Memorial Bust by Daniel Chester French, 1898
    680 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 park features
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 arts or cultural centers
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Emanuel Congregation of the City of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · landmark
    720 feet
  2. Dominican Academy School
    860 feet
  3. The Episcopal School in the City of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,060 feet
Show all 4
  1. The Children's Learning Center at Hunter College Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Central Park Listed historic place
    70 feet
  2. Billy Johnson Playground
    210 feet
  3. Dene in Central Park Park feature
    430 feet
Show all 8
  1. Wallach Walk in Central Park Park feature
    490 feet
  2. East Green in Central Park Park feature
    520 feet
  3. Central Park Zoo Zoo or aquarium
    580 feet
  4. East 72nd Street Playground
    870 feet
  5. Delacorte Clock in Central Park Park feature
    950 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Frick Collection Museum
    670 feet
  2. Building at 45 East 66th Street Listed historic place
    1,030 feet
  3. Upper East Side Historic District Listed historic place
    1,160 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Americas Society Art Gallery Arts or cultural center
    930 feet
  2. Italian Cultural Institute Arts or cultural center · listed historic place
    1,050 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Temple Emanuel Landmark
    710 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 places to eat.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 5th Avenue or East 68th 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.