East 63rd Street & East 63rd Street Pedestrian Overpass

East 63rd Street and East 63rd Street Pedestrian Overpass meet at a three-way junction in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, Manhattan. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. City and Suburban Homes Company, First Avenue Estate, one of three Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 430 feet away. The nearest subway, Lexington Av/63 St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the M and Q. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, four of them parks, and 25 places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Lexington Av/63 St
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · M, Q
Nearest bus stop
330 feet
York Av/E 64 St · M31
Within a walk
12 places
4 parks, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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East 63rd Street & East 63rd Street Pedestrian Overpass Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Lexington Av/63 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Lexington Av/63 St M, Q
    0.4 miles
    M Q

Next trains at this station

Uptown & Queens
2 lines
  1. M …
  2. Q …
Downtown
2 lines
  1. M …
  2. Q …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Elevated” (2017) by Jean Shin at the Lexington Av/63 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is York Av/E 64 St, 330 feet away, for the M31.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. York Av/E 64 St M31
    330 feet
    M31

Next buses at this stop

  1. M31 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 60 St & York Ave 33 docks in all
    1,050 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at FDR Drive & East 63rd Street, 480 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 1855 1st Avenue Gas station
    1.8 miles
  2. 500 East 63rd Street Charging for electric cars, 25 Level 2 chargers
    420 feet
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2016.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10065
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 8
City Council district
5
Police precinct
19
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island

Homes

About 4,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 32 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and 15 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Beaux-Arts. They were mostly built between 1901 and 1906.

  1. City and Suburban Homes Company, First Avenue Estate Designated landmark
    430 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Andrew Haswell Green Park.

  1. East River Roundabout Sculpture by Alice Aycock, 1995
    610 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 parks
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 college
  • 1 hospital
  • 1 museum
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Rockefeller Child and Family Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    480 feet
  2. Rockefeller University College
    980 feet
  3. Super Stars Tennis Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,240 feet
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  1. District 2 Pre-K Center at 403 East 65th Street Pre-K center
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. East River Walk Park
    350 feet
  2. Andrew Haswell Green Park
    390 feet
  3. Twenty-Four Sycamores Park
    690 feet
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  1. Twenty-Four Sycamores Park Playground
    750 feet
  2. Queensboro Oval Park
    1,010 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Bridge Tower Place Public space
    1,310 feet

Health care

  1. Rockefeller University Hospital
    980 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Mount Vernon Hotel Museum Landmark · listed historic place
    800 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    1,140 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 places to eat and three food stores.

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 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 63rd Street or East 63rd Street Pedestrian Overpass.

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