5th Avenue & East 95th Street

The four-way crossing of 5th Avenue and East 95th 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, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Margaret L. Kempner Playground is 120 feet away, and Lycee Francais de New-York stands 230 feet away. The nearest subway, 96 St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are 28 public places, eight of them schools, and 21 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
96 St
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
190 feet
5 Av/E 96 St · M1, M2, M3, M4 +3
Within a walk
28 places
8 schools, 5 religious buildings and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
5th Avenue & East 95th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 96 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. 96 St 6
    0.3 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 96 St, 190 feet away, for the M1, M2, M3, M4 and three more.

  • 18 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 5 Av/E 96 St M1, M2, M3, M4 +3
    190 feet
    M1 M2 M3 M4 BxM3 BxM4 BxM7

Next buses at this stop

  1. M1 …
  2. M2 …
  3. M3 …
  4. M4 …
  5. BxM3 …
  6. BxM4 …
  7. BxM7 …

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

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive northbound at East 96th Street, 0.9 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
    930 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported three 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 July 2025.

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
5 and 6 and 8 (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
81 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,200 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 1910 and 1929.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2020 and April 2026, 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 95th Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of East 95th Street

  • No parking 3 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 are two Individual Landmarks, and 119 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1891 and 1922.

  1. Lycee Francais de New-York Designated landmark
    230 feet
  2. Squadron "A" Armory Designated landmark
    570 feet
  3. Saint Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral Rectory Designated landmark
    700 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Central Park.

  1. Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen Statue by Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1894
    510 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 28 public places.

  • 8 schools
  • 5 religious buildings
  • 4 listed historic places
  • 3 park features
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. La Scuola D'Italia-G Marconi School
    470 feet
  2. Manhattan Country School
    610 feet
  3. Sephardic Academy-Manhattan School
    610 feet
Show all 10
  1. Playgarden Madison Prep Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    650 feet
  2. St. Bernard's Kindergarten School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    920 feet
  3. Hunter College Campus Schools School
    950 feet
  4. St Bernard's School
    980 feet
  5. Convent of the Sacred Heart School
    1,080 feet
  6. Spence School at 93rd School
    1,190 feet
  7. Nightingale Bamford School
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Central Park Listed historic place
    70 feet
  2. Margaret L. Kempner Playground
    120 feet
  3. East Meadow in Central Park Park feature
    590 feet
Show all 6
  1. North Meadow in Central Park Park feature
    1,060 feet
  2. Reservoir in Central Park Park feature
    1,110 feet
  3. Robert Bendheim Playground
    1,250 feet

Plazas and public spaces

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

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lucy Drexel Dahlgren Residence Listed historic place
    720 feet
  2. Jewish Museum Listed historic place
    730 feet
  3. James A. Jr. Burden House and Kahn, Otto H. House Listed historic place
    1,110 feet
Show all 6
  1. Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
    1,140 feet
  2. William Goadby Loew House Listed historic place
    1,190 feet
  3. Andrew Carnegie Mansion Listed historic place
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ramakrishna Vivekananda Center House of worship
    390 feet
  2. St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church Landmark
    820 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 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 95th 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.