5th Avenue & East 83rd Street

The four-way crossing of 5th Avenue and East 83rd Street is in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, Manhattan, at the edge of Central Park. It lies on the edge of the Metropolitan Museum Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Marymount School of NY is 240 feet away. The nearest subway, 86 St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the 4, 5 and 6. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
86 St
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · 4, 5, 6
Nearest bus stop
340 feet
5 Av/E 84 St · M1, M2, M3, M4
Within a walk
21 places
6 schools, 5 listed historic places and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
5th Avenue & East 83rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 86 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. 86 St 4, 5, 6
    0.4 miles
    4 5 6

Next trains at this station

Uptown
3 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. 5 …
  3. 6 …
Downtown
3 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. 5 …
  3. 6 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Happy City” (2004) by Peter Sis at the 86 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 5 Av/E 84 St, 340 feet away, for the M1, M2, M3 and M4.

  • 15 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 5 Av/E 84 St M1, M2, M3, M4
    340 feet
    M1 M2 M3 M4

Next buses at this stop

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

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

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Madison Ave & E 82 St 34 docks in all
    820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at FDR Drive & East 78th Street, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1855 1st Avenue Gas station
    1.4 miles
  2. 50 East 79th Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10028
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
87 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 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 1920 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 84 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2018 and April 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 5th Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS

North side of East 83rd Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of East 83rd Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 111729.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Metropolitan Museum Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 88 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Beaux-Arts. They were mostly built between 1883 and 1924.

  1. The Stanhope Hotel Designated landmark
    620 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Ancient Playground, Central Park.

  1. William Church Osborn Gates Ornamental gates by Paul Manship, 1953
    460 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

  • 6 schools
  • 5 listed historic places
  • 2 park features
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 public spaces
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Marymount School of NY School
    240 feet
  2. St Ignatius Loyola School
    890 feet
  3. Loyola School
    1,020 feet
Show all 6
  1. P.S. 006 Lillie D. Blake School
    1,090 feet
  2. Regis High School
    1,140 feet
  3. Rudolf Steiner School
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Central Park Listed historic place
    60 feet
  2. Ancient Playground
    370 feet
  3. Ruth and Arthur Smadbeck-Heckscher East Playground
    950 feet
Show all 5
  1. Group of Bears Sculpture in Central Park Park feature
    990 feet
  2. Cedar Hill in Central Park Park feature
    1,050 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 985 Fifth Avenue Public space
    940 feet
  2. Public space at 980 Fifth Avenue Public space
    1,110 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Houses at 1026-1028 Fifth Avenue Listed historic place
    280 feet
  2. Duke Residence Listed historic place
    360 feet
  3. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum · landmark
    620 feet
Show all 6
  1. William Schickel House Listed historic place
    770 feet
  2. Church of St. Ignatius Loyola Complex Listed historic place
    1,050 feet
  3. Harry F. Sinclair House Listed historic place
    1,190 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,000 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,170 feet

Supermarkets

  1. D'Agostino Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and four food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 5th Avenue or East 83rd 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.