5th Avenue & Gustave L Levy Place

The three-way junction of 5th Avenue and Gustave L Levy Place is in East Harlem (South), Manhattan, at the edge of Central Park. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. East Meadow in Central Park is 20 feet away, and Mt Sinai School of Medicine is 320 feet away. The nearest subway, 103 St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, four of them park features, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
103 St
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
450 feet
5 Av/E 102 St · M1, M2, M3, M4 +1
Within a walk
20 places
4 park features, 4 schools and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
5th Avenue & Gustave L Levy Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 103 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. 103 St 6
    0.4 miles
    6

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 96 St 6
    0.5 miles
    6

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Neo-Boriken” (1990) by Nitza Tufiño at the 103 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 5 Av/E 102 St, 450 feet away, for the M1, M2, M3, M4 and M106.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 5 Av/E 102 St M1, M2, M3, M4 +1
    450 feet
    M1 M2 M3 M4 M106

Next buses at this stop

  1. M1 …
  2. M2 …
  3. M3 …
  4. M4 …
  5. M106 …

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

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 5 Ave & E 103 St 39 docks in all
    780 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. 1599 Lexington Avenue Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 1425 Madison Avenue Charging for electric cars, 32 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported six crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10029
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 11
City Council district
6 and 8 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
22 and 23 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Harlem (South); the corner is on the edge of the Central Park area

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,400 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 1926 and 1954.

Trees

NYC Parks records 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and six buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Moscow Baroque and neo-Renaissance. They were built between 1901 and 1926.

  1. Saint Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral Rectory Designated landmark
    790 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 park features
  • 4 schools
  • 2 museums
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 research libraries
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Mt Sinai School of Medicine College
    320 feet
  2. St. Bernard's Kindergarten School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    630 feet
  3. St Bernard's School
    830 feet
Show all 6
  1. P.S. 171 Patrick Henry School
    1,190 feet
  2. Manhattan Country School
    1,190 feet
  3. Sephardic Academy-Manhattan School
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. East Meadow in Central Park Park feature
    20 feet
  2. Central Park Listed historic place
    50 feet
  3. Robert Bendheim Playground
    80 feet
Show all 7
  1. Conservatory Garden in Central Park Park feature
    1,100 feet
  2. Burnett Memorial Fountain in Central Park Park feature
    1,100 feet
  3. North Meadow in Central Park Park feature
    1,150 feet
  4. Margaret L. Kempner Playground
    1,260 feet

Health care

  1. Mount Sinai Hospital
    320 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. New York Academy of Medicine Research library
    850 feet
  2. Medical Library Ctr of New York Research library
    850 feet
  3. Museum of the City of New York Museum
    940 feet
Show all 5
  1. El Museo del Barrio Museum
    1,280 feet
  2. Lucy Drexel Dahlgren Residence Listed historic place
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church Landmark
    930 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 5th Avenue.

Sources: NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYCHA, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Technology and Innovation, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.