East 116th Street & FDR Drive

East 116th Street and FDR Drive meet at a three-way junction in East Harlem (North), Manhattan. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Benjamin Franklin High School stands 420 feet away, and Storefront Academy Harlem Charter School is 1,110 feet away. The nearest bus stop, E 116 St/Pleasant Av, is 630 feet away for the M116, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, eight of them gardens, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
FDR Drive
a ramp starts at this corner
Nearest bus stop
630 feet
E 116 St/Pleasant Av · M116
Within a walk
15 places
8 gardens, 3 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 116th Street & FDR Drive Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 116 St/Pleasant Av, 630 feet away, for the M116.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 116 St/Pleasant Av M116
    630 feet
    M116

Next buses at this stop

  1. M116 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Pleasant Ave & E 116 St 23 docks in all
    540 feet

By car

A ramp to the FDR Drive southbound starts at this corner.

  1. 2278 1st Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 245 East 124th Street Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10029
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 11
City Council district
8
Police precinct
25
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Harlem (North)
Elevation
9 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 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 1920.

Trees

Nineteen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Georgian Revival, and built between 1940 and 1942.

  1. Benjamin Franklin High School Designated landmark
    420 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 gardens
  • 3 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Isaac Newton Middle School for Math & Science School
    600 feet
  2. Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics School
    600 feet
  3. East Harlem Council for Human Services Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    750 feet
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  1. Storefront Academy Harlem Charter School
    1,110 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Rodale Pleasant Park Community Garden
    990 feet
  2. Los Amigos Garden NYRP Garden
    1,020 feet
  3. Thomas Jefferson Park
    1,070 feet
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  1. East Harlem Community Garden
    1,080 feet
  2. Pleasant Park Garden
    1,090 feet
  3. Pleasant Village Community Garden
    1,100 feet
  4. Thomas Jefferson Park Playground
    1,110 feet
  5. Family Garden by Tiffany & Co. Garden
    1,170 feet
  6. Home Depot Children's Garden
    1,210 feet
  7. El Barrio Community Garden
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church House of worship
    730 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    1,290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. ALDI Supermarket
    590 feet
  2. Cherry Valley Marketplace Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Costco Store
    690 feet

Shopping centers

  1. East River Plaza Shopping center
    340 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 116th Street or FDR Drive.

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