5th Avenue & East 91st Street

The four-way crossing of 5th Avenue and East 91st 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, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. In 2025, 585 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. The stele “William T. Stead Memorial” is 60 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 5 Av/E 92 St, is 210 feet away for the M1, M2, M3 and M4.

Safety record
1 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
FDR Drive
0.9 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
210 feet
5 Av/E 92 St · M1, M2, M3, M4
Within a walk
29 places
7 schools, 6 religious buildings and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
5th Avenue & East 91st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 5 Av/E 92 St, 210 feet away, for the M1, M2, M3 and M4.

  • 16 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 5 Av/E 92 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 10am on weekdays.

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 5th Avenue and East 91st Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 91 St & Park Ave 35 docks in all
    900 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at York Avenue & East 92nd Street, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1855 1st Avenue Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 11 East 86th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.3 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.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2019

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 585 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,098th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 273 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10128
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
110 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2014 and September 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 5th Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of East 91st 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
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of East 91st Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 111232.

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, 166 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1889 and 1924.

  1. The Church of the Heavenly Rest Parish Hall Designated landmark
    460 feet
  2. The National Academy School of Fine Arts Designated landmark
    510 feet
  3. Hotel Ashton Designated landmark
    630 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. William T. Stead Memorial Stele by George William Frampton, 1920
    60 feet
  2. John Purroy Mitchel Stele by Adolph Alexander Weinman, 1928
    330 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Convent of the Sacred Heart School
    140 feet
  2. Spence School Landmark
    410 feet
  3. Nightingale Bamford School Landmark
    520 feet
Show all 9
  1. St Davids School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    730 feet
  2. Dalton School
    770 feet
  3. The Brick Presbyterian Church in the City of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    970 feet
  4. Horace Mann School Nursery-Kinderga School
    1,030 feet
  5. Spence School at 93rd School
    1,100 feet
  6. St. Thomas Moore Play Group Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Central Park Listed historic place
    50 feet
  2. Fred Lebow Statue in Central Park Park feature
    390 feet
  3. Margaret L. Kempner Playground
    1,170 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 45 East 89th Street Public space
    960 feet
  2. Public space at Carnegie Hill Tower Public space
    1,300 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
    140 feet
  2. James A. Jr. Burden House and Kahn, Otto H. House Listed historic place
    170 feet
  3. Andrew Carnegie Mansion Listed historic place
    200 feet
Show all 8
  1. Jewish Museum Listed historic place
    340 feet
  2. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Listed historic place
    690 feet
  3. Apartment at 1261 Madison Avenue Listed historic place
    760 feet
  4. William Goadby Loew House Listed historic place
    1,110 feet
  5. Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt House Listed historic place
    1,170 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Beloved Disciple Chapel Landmark · listed historic place
    390 feet
  2. Brick Presbyterian Church House of worship
    920 feet
  3. Ramakrishna Vivekananda Center House of worship
    980 feet
Show all 4
  1. St Thomas More Church House of worship
    1,040 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    590 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    860 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Westside Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 places to eat and four food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 5th Avenue or East 91st 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.