5th Avenue & East 93rd Street

The four-way crossing of 5th Avenue and East 93rd Street is in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, Manhattan. It lies on the edge of the Expanded Carnegie Hill Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Ramakrishna Vivekananda Center is 450 feet away, and Brick Presbyterian Church is 1,210 feet away. The nearest subway, 96 St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are 34 public places, nine of them schools, and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
96 St
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
250 feet
5 Av/E 94 St · M1, M2, M3, M4
Within a walk
34 places
9 schools, 8 listed historic places and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
5th Avenue & East 93rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 96 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. 96 St 6
    0.4 miles
    6

Next trains at this station

The Bronx
1 line
  1. 6 …
Downtown
1 line
  1. 6 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “City Suite” (1994) by Laura Bradley at the 96 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 5 Av/E 94 St, 250 feet away, for the M1, M2, M3 and M4.

  • 17 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 5 Av/E 94 St M1, M2, M3, M4
    250 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

  • 32 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 94 St & Madison Ave 43 docks in all
    850 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at York Avenue & East 92nd Street, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1855 1st Avenue Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 60 East 94th Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two 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 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10128
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 8
City Council district
4 and 5 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
98 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,500 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 1894 and 1928.

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
  • 14 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2020 and October 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 5th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

North side of East 93rd Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of East 93rd Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

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 178 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1890 and 1923.

  1. Hotel Ashton Designated landmark
    450 feet
  2. Hotel Chastaignary Designated landmark
    610 feet
  3. Lycee Francais de New-York Designated landmark
    620 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
    520 feet
  2. John Purroy Mitchel Stele by Adolph Alexander Weinman, 1928
    810 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 34 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Convent of the Sacred Heart School
    560 feet
  2. Spence School at 93rd School
    680 feet
  3. Nightingale Bamford School Landmark
    680 feet
Show all 12
  1. Spence School Landmark
    940 feet
  2. The Brick Presbyterian Church in the City of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    970 feet
  3. La Scuola D'Italia-G Marconi School
    990 feet
  4. Manhattan Country School
    1,120 feet
  5. Sephardic Academy-Manhattan School
    1,120 feet
  6. Dalton School
    1,130 feet
  7. Playgarden Madison Prep Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,160 feet
  8. Hunter College Campus Schools School
    1,220 feet
  9. Saint David's School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Central Park Listed historic place
    60 feet
  2. Margaret L. Kempner Playground
    640 feet
  3. Fred Lebow Statue in Central Park Park feature
    920 feet
Show all 4
  1. East Meadow in Central Park Park feature
    1,110 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Carnegie Hill Tower Public space
    770 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Jewish Museum Listed historic place
    220 feet
  2. James A. Jr. Burden House and Kahn, Otto H. House Listed historic place
    590 feet
  3. Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
    620 feet
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  1. William Goadby Loew House Listed historic place
    680 feet
  2. Andrew Carnegie Mansion Listed historic place
    730 feet
  3. Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt House Listed historic place
    800 feet
  4. George F. Baker Jr. and Sr. Residences Listed historic place
    950 feet
  5. Madison Avenue Facade of the Squadron a Armory Listed historic place
    950 feet
  6. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Listed historic place
    1,220 feet
  7. Lucy Drexel Dahlgren Residence Listed historic place
    1,230 feet
  8. Apartment at 1261 Madison Avenue Listed historic place
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ramakrishna Vivekananda Center House of worship
    450 feet
  2. Beloved Disciple Chapel Listed historic place
    920 feet
  3. Brick Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,210 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    730 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,000 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and three food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 5th Avenue or East 93rd 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.