East 77th Street & Cherokee Place

East 77th Street and Cherokee Place 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. East River Homes / Cherokee Apartments, one of two Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 90 feet away, and the sculpture “Eaphae-Aekyad #2” is 110 feet away. The nearest bus stop, York Av/E 77 St, is 580 feet away for the M31, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, four of them schools, and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
FDR Drive
0.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
580 feet
York Av/E 77 St · M31
Within a walk
14 places
4 schools, 2 parks and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 77th Street & Cherokee Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is York Av/E 77 St, 580 feet away, for the M31.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. York Av/E 77 St M31 · Shelter · Countdown sign
    580 feet
    M31
    Shelter · Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. M31 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Cherokee Place and East 77th Street.

  • 23 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 1 Ave & E 78 St 57 docks in all
    0.3 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at FDR Drive & East 78th Street, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1855 1st Avenue Gas station
    1.2 miles
  2. 1385 York Avenue Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1,260 feet

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 February 2017.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10075
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 8
City Council district
5
Police precinct
19
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 5,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 10 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 161 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 20 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2019 and April 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Cherokee Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Cherokee Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of East 77th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of East 77th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 21 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Beaux-Arts and neo-Renaissance. They were mostly built between 1904 and 1911.

  1. East River Homes / Cherokee Apartments Designated landmark
    90 feet
  2. Junior League Hotel for Women Designated landmark
    450 feet
  3. Bishop Henry Codman Memorial Buildings Designated landmark
    450 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in John Jay Park.

  1. Eaphae-Aekyad #2 Sculpture by Douglas Abdell, 1979
    110 feet
  2. Kryeti-Aekyad #2 Sculpture by Douglas Abdell, 1979
    190 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 2 parks
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Insur Ed Trade or language school
    490 feet
  2. P.S. 158 Bayard Taylor School
    500 feet
  3. Yorkville East Middle School
    500 feet
Show all 6
  1. Chabad-Lubavitch of the Upper East Side Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    970 feet
  2. Eleanor Roosevelt High School
    1,140 feet
  3. Lycee Francais de NY School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. John Jay Park Playground
    40 feet
  2. John Jay Park
    70 feet
  3. Pavilion in John Jay Park Park feature
    280 feet
Show all 4
  1. East River Walk Park
    730 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. City & Suburban Homes Company's York Avenue Estate Listed historic place
    360 feet
  2. Webster Library
    750 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. John Jay Pool Swimming pool
    290 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

  1. D'Agostino Supermarket
    1,230 feet
  2. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,110 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and five food stores.

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 Cherokee Place or East 77th Street.

Sources: NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, 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.