East 37th Street & East River Esplanade

East 37th Street and East River Esplanade meet at a three-way junction in Murray Hill-Kips Bay, Manhattan. The corner stands inside East River Esplanade. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. E 34 St Midtown East Ferry Landing is 360 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 1 Av/E 36 St, is 660 feet away for the M15, and 23 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, two of them parks, and four places to eat.

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East 37th Street & East River Esplanade Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 1 Av/E 36 St, 660 feet away, for the M15.

  • 23 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 1 Av/E 36 St M15
    660 feet
    M15

Next buses at this stop

  1. M15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on East 37th Street and East River Esplanade.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. FDR Drive & E 35 St 123 docks in all
    390 feet

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

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10016
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 6
City Council district
4
Police precinct
17
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Murray Hill-Kips Bay

Homes

About 3,300 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 1985 and 1989.

Since 2014 at least 160 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 public spaces
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 ferry landing
  • 2 other places

This corner stands inside East River Esplanade.

Schools and child care

  1. The River School
    780 feet
  2. Pre-K Center at 330 East 38th Street Pre-K center
    880 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. East River Esplanade Park
    surrounds this corner
  2. St. Vartan Park
    820 feet
  3. St. Vartan Park Playground
    1,100 feet
Show all 4
  1. Robert Moses Playground
    1,200 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Manhattan Place Public space
    440 feet
  2. Public space at East River Realty South Public space
    690 feet
  3. Public space at Corinthian Public space
    880 feet
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  1. Public space at Rivergate Public space
    900 feet
  2. Public space at New York Tower Public space
    1,240 feet
  3. Public space at East River Realty North Public space
    1,260 feet
  4. Public space at The Water Club Public space
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. D'Agostino Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other places

  1. E 34 St Midtown East Ferry Landing
    360 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

Sources: NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYPD, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Technology and Innovation, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 3, 2026.