5th Avenue & East 84th Street

The six-way junction of 5th Avenue and East 84th Street is in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, Manhattan. It lies on the edge of the Metropolitan Museum Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Ancient Playground is 100 feet away, and Ruth and Arthur Smadbeck-Heckscher East Playground is 1,220 feet away. The nearest subway, 86 St, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 4, 5 and 6. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
86 St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 4, 5, 6
Nearest bus stop
80 feet
5 Av/E 84 St · M1, M2, M3, M4
Within a walk
18 places
4 listed historic places, 4 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
5th Avenue & East 84th 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 eight 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, 80 feet away, for the M1, M2, M3 and M4.

  • 18 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 5 Av/E 84 St M1, M2, M3, M4
    80 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

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 5 Ave & E 87 St 39 docks in all
    870 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at York Avenue & East 92nd Street, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1855 1st Avenue Gas station
    1.3 miles
  2. 113 East 84th Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1,280 feet
  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 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

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
Elevation
90 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,500 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 1923 and 1959.

Trees

NYC Parks records 86 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 20 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2020 and July 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 5th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM

West side of 5th Avenue

  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Taxi stand 2 signs TAXI STAND

North side of East 84th Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY CONSUL-C DIPLOMAT-A & D LICENSE PLATES D/S DECALS ONLY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

South side of East 84th Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

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 are two Individual Landmarks, and 73 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Neoclassical. They were mostly built between 1888 and 1925.

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
    200 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 listed historic places
  • 4 schools
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 park features
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Marymount School of NY School
    150 feet
  2. St Ignatius Loyola School
    790 feet
  3. Regis High School Landmark
    880 feet
Show all 4
  1. Loyola School
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Central Park Listed historic place
    60 feet
  2. Ancient Playground
    100 feet
  3. Alexander Hamilton Statue in Central Park Park feature
    1,120 feet
Show all 5
  1. Ruth and Arthur Smadbeck-Heckscher East Playground
    1,220 feet
  2. Group of Bears Sculpture in Central Park Park feature
    1,260 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 985 Fifth Avenue Public space
    1,210 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Houses at 1026-1028 Fifth Avenue Listed historic place
    120 feet
  2. Duke Residence Listed historic place
    630 feet
  3. Church of St. Ignatius Loyola Complex Listed historic place
    780 feet
Show all 5
  1. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum · landmark
    890 feet
  2. William Schickel House Listed historic place
    1,040 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    730 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    900 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

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

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 5th Avenue, 86th Street Transverse or East 84th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.