5th Avenue & East 94th Street

The four-way crossing of 5th Avenue and East 94th 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, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Central Park is 50 feet away, and East Meadow in Central Park is 850 feet away. The nearest subway, 96 St, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are 31 public places, nine of them schools, and 20 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
96 St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
5 Av/E 94 St · M1, M2, M3, M4
Within a walk
31 places
9 schools, 6 listed historic places and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
5th Avenue & East 94th 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 eight 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, 40 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
    40 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

  • 33 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive northbound at East 96th Street, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

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

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. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, September 2023
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10128
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 8
City Council district
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
88 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,800 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 1900 and 1928.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 16 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

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

East side of 5th Avenue

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

North side of East 94th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of East 94th Street

  • No parking 5 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 152 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. Lycee Francais de New-York Designated landmark
    390 feet
  2. Hotel Ashton Designated landmark
    560 feet
  3. Squadron "A" Armory Designated landmark
    560 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen Statue by Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1894
    760 feet
  2. William T. Stead Memorial Stele by George William Frampton, 1920
    780 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 31 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. La Scuola D'Italia-G Marconi School
    730 feet
  2. Convent of the Sacred Heart School
    820 feet
  3. Manhattan Country School
    870 feet
Show all 12
  1. Sephardic Academy-Manhattan School
    870 feet
  2. Playgarden Madison Prep Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    910 feet
  3. Spence School at 93rd School
    940 feet
  4. Nightingale Bamford School Landmark
    940 feet
  5. Hunter College Campus Schools School
    960 feet
  6. St. Bernard's Kindergarten School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,180 feet
  7. Spence School
    1,200 feet
  8. The Brick Presbyterian Church in the City of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,230 feet
  9. St Bernard's School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Central Park Listed historic place
    50 feet
  2. Margaret L. Kempner Playground
    380 feet
  3. East Meadow in Central Park Park feature
    850 feet
Show all 4
  1. Fred Lebow Statue in Central Park Park feature
    1,170 feet

Plazas and public spaces

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

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Jewish Museum Listed historic place
    470 feet
  2. James A. Jr. Burden House and Kahn, Otto H. House Listed historic place
    850 feet
  3. Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
    880 feet
Show all 8
  1. William Goadby Loew House Listed historic place
    940 feet
  2. Lucy Drexel Dahlgren Residence Listed historic place
    980 feet
  3. Andrew Carnegie Mansion Listed historic place
    990 feet
  4. Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt House Listed historic place
    1,060 feet
  5. George F. Baker Jr. and Sr. Residences Listed historic place
    1,200 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ramakrishna Vivekananda Center House of worship
    330 feet
  2. St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church House of worship
    1,080 feet
  3. Beloved Disciple Chapel Listed historic place
    1,180 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    980 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 places to eat and four food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 5th Avenue or East 94th 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.