5th Avenue & East 85th Street

The four-way crossing of 5th Avenue and East 85th Street is in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, Manhattan. It lies on the edge of the Metropolitan Museum Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 24 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. In 2025, 657 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Central Park is 50 feet away. The nearest subway, 86 St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 4, 5 and 6. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places and nine places to eat.

Safety record
15 hurt
24 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
86 St
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 4, 5, 6
Nearest bus stop
210 feet
5 Av/E 84 St · M1, M2, M3, M4
Within a walk
19 places
5 listed historic places, 3 religious buildings and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
5th Avenue & East 85th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 86 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. 86 St 4, 5, 6
    0.3 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, 210 feet away, for the M1, M2, M3 and M4.

  • 20 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 5 Av/E 84 St M1, M2, M3, M4
    210 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

  • 20 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 5 Ave & E 87 St 39 docks in all
    610 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
    0.3 miles
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 24 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2007

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 657 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,021st most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 355 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
93 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,700 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 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 68 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 26 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

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

East side of 5th Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM

West side of 5th Avenue

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS
  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM

North side of East 85th Street

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

South side of East 85th Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 109246 and 111977.

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 53 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Neoclassical. They were mostly built between 1894 and 1929.

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
    100 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 listed historic places
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 museums
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Marymount School of NY School
    410 feet
  2. Regis High School Landmark
    850 feet
  3. St Ignatius Loyola School
    1,050 feet
Show all 5
  1. Park Avenue Synagogue Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,060 feet
  2. Saint David's School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Central Park Listed historic place
    50 feet
  2. Ancient Playground
    90 feet
  3. Alexander Hamilton Statue in Central Park Park feature
    1,080 feet
Show all 4
  1. Fred Lebow Statue in Central Park Park feature
    1,270 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Houses at 1026-1028 Fifth Avenue Listed historic place
    390 feet
  2. Duke Residence Listed historic place
    900 feet
  3. Church of St. Ignatius Loyola Complex Listed historic place
    1,050 feet
Show all 7
  1. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Listed historic place
    1,070 feet
  2. Lewis G. Morris House Listed historic place
    1,130 feet
  3. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum · landmark
    1,150 feet
  4. William Schickel House Listed historic place
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Park Ave Synagogue House of worship
    1,060 feet
  2. Park Ave Methodist Church House of worship
    1,270 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    600 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    640 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Morton Williams Supermarket
    1,150 feet
  2. D'Agostino Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 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 nine places to eat and five food stores.

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 85th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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.