5th Avenue & East 86th Street

The four-way crossing of 5th Avenue and East 86th Street is in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, Manhattan, at the edge of Central Park. It lies on the edge of the Expanded Carnegie Hill Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Manhattan corner. The ornamental gates “William Church Osborn Gates” are 360 feet away. The nearest subway, 86 St, is about six minutes on foot, for the 4, 5 and 6. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
86 St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 4, 5, 6
Nearest bus stop
30 feet
E 86 St/5 Av · M86 SBS
Within a walk
16 places
4 religious buildings, 3 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
5th Avenue & East 86th 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 six 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 E 86 St/5 Av, 30 feet away, for the M86 SBS.

  • 20 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 86 St/5 Av M86 SBS
    30 feet
    M86 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. M86 SBS …

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

  • 34 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at York Avenue & East 92nd Street, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1855 1st Avenue Gas station
    1.2 miles
  2. 11 East 86th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    200 feet
  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 ten crashes at this corner, the median for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2000

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
95 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is 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 74 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

East side of 5th Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

North side of East 86th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 7:30AM-8AM

South side of East 86th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-8:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Expanded Carnegie Hill Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 47 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Beaux-Arts. They were mostly built between 1901 and 1930.

  1. Metropolitan Museum of Art Designated landmark
    680 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
    360 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Marymount School of NY School
    690 feet
  2. Park Avenue Synagogue Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    780 feet
  3. St Davids School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,010 feet
Show all 4
  1. Regis High School
    1,130 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Central Park Listed historic place
    60 feet
  2. Ancient Playground
    370 feet
  3. Fred Lebow Statue in Central Park Park feature
    990 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Houses at 1026-1028 Fifth Avenue Listed historic place
    670 feet
  2. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Landmark · listed historic place
    780 feet
  3. Duke Residence Listed historic place
    1,170 feet
Show all 4
  1. Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Park Ave Synagogue House of worship
    780 feet
  2. Beloved Disciple Chapel Listed historic place
    1,120 feet
  3. Park Ave Methodist Church House of worship
    1,190 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    360 feet
  2. TD Bank Bank branch
    880 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Morton Williams Supermarket
    870 feet
  2. D'Agostino Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

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

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 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 or East 86th 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.