Avenue C & East 23rd Street

Avenue C and East 23rd Street meet at a four-way crossing in Murray Hill-Kips Bay, Manhattan. The corner is also named Dick Ravitch Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 18 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Asser Levy Playground is 130 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Avenue C/E 23 St, is 80 feet away for the M9 and M23 SBS, and 20 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, two of them schools, and two places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
18 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
FDR Drive
0.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
80 feet
Avenue C/E 23 St · M9, M23 SBS
Within a walk
10 places
2 schools, 1 day care or pre-K site and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue C & East 23rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue C/E 23 St, 80 feet away, for the M9 and M23 SBS.

  • 20 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue C/E 23 St M9, M23 SBS
    80 feet
    M9 M23 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. M9 …
  2. M23 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 23 St & FDR Dr 45 docks in all
    380 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at Avenue C, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2.1 miles
  2. 350 East 30th Street Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.5 miles
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 18 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10010
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 6
City Council district
4
Police precinct
13
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Murray Hill-Kips Bay

This corner is also named Dick Ravitch Way, a co-naming enacted on January 18, 2025 (Local Law 10 of 2025).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,500 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 in 1947.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Dick Ravitch Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2020 and June 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on East 23rd Street (north side).

East side of Avenue C

  • No standing 13 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Avenue C

  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of East 23rd Street

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 102263 and 108278.

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Neoclassical Roman, and built between 1904 and 1906.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 ferry landing
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    860 feet
  2. British International School of NY School
    940 feet
  3. U N International School
    990 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Stuyvesant Cove Park
    100 feet
  2. Asser Levy Playground
    130 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Waterside Plaza Public space
    650 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Public Baths Listed historic place
    390 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Asser Levy Pool Swimming pool
    220 feet
  2. Asser Levy Recreation Center Landmark
    340 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    1,010 feet
  2. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. D'Agostino Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other places

  1. 24 Street Ferry Landing
    390 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue C or East 23rd Street.

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