East 56th Street & Sutton Place South

East 56th Street and Sutton Place South meet at a four-way crossing in East Midtown-Turtle Bay, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Sutton Parks is 190 feet away, and Twenty-Four Sycamores Park Playground is 1,160 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Sutton Pl/E 55 St, is 260 feet away for the M57, and 30 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, six of them parks, and 19 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Queensboro Bridge
0.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
260 feet
Sutton Pl/E 55 St · M57
Within a walk
18 places
9 public spaces, 6 parks and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 56th Street & Sutton Place South Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Sutton Pl/E 55 St, 260 feet away, for the M57.

  • 30 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sutton Pl/E 55 St M57 · Countdown sign
    260 feet
    M57
    Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. M57 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Sutton Place South.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 60 St & York Ave 33 docks in all
    1,060 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Queensboro Bridge at 1st Avenue, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 720 11th Avenue Gas station
    2.1 miles
  2. 25 Sutton Place South Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    100 feet
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, November 2019
  • Turn calming, October 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10022
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 6
City Council district
4
Police precinct
17
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Midtown-Turtle Bay
Elevation
37 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 6,200 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 1931 and 1969.

Trees

NYC Parks records 69 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 15 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2016 and April 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Sutton Place South

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 10A M-11:30AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 10AM-11:30AM

West side of Sutton Place South

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 10AM-11:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, the Landmarks Preservation Commission has designated one lamppost.

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Boar Statue by Pietro Tacca, 1972
    330 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 public spaces
  • 6 parks
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. NY Kids Club Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    930 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sutton Parks Park
    190 feet
  2. Sutton Place Park
    210 feet
  3. East River Walk Park
    730 feet
Show all 7
  1. Queensboro Oval Park
    880 feet
  2. Andrew Haswell Green Park
    1,100 feet
  3. Twenty-Four Sycamores Park
    1,140 feet
  4. Twenty-Four Sycamores Park Playground
    1,160 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Plaza 400 Public space
    600 feet
  2. Public space at St. James Tower Public space
    760 feet
  3. Public space at New Yorker East Public space
    960 feet
Show all 9
  1. Public space at Sovereign Public space
    970 feet
  2. Public space at Morrison Public space
    1,000 feet
  3. Public space at River Tower Public space
    1,010 feet
  4. Public space at Rivercourt Public space
    1,170 feet
  5. Public space at Grand Sutton Public space
    1,180 feet
  6. Public space at Revere Public space
    1,190 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Sutton Place Historic District Listed historic place
    590 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    890 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,030 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Morton Williams Supermarket
    830 feet
  2. D'Agostino Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,070 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 19 places to eat and seven food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 56th Street or Sutton Place South.

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.