East 81st Street & East 81st Street Pedestrian Overpass

East 81st Street and East 81st Street Pedestrian Overpass meet at a three-way junction in Upper East Side-Yorkville, Manhattan. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Chapin School is 1,020 feet away. The nearest bus stop, E 80 St/East End Av, is 430 feet away for the M79 SBS, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and two places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
FDR Drive
1,030 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
430 feet
E 80 St/East End Av · M79 SBS
Within a walk
17 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 3 parks and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

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Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 80 St/East End Av, 430 feet away, for the M79 SBS.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 80 St/East End Av M79 SBS · Shelter
    430 feet
    M79 SBS
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M79 SBS …

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 82 St & East End Ave 33 docks in all
    440 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at FDR Drive & East 78th Street, 1,030 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 1855 1st Avenue Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 55 East End Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    420 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 January 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10028
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 8
City Council district
5
Police precinct
19
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper East Side-Yorkville

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 5,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and seven buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Collegiate Gothic. They were mostly built between 1908 and 1911.

  1. Bishop Henry Codman Memorial Buildings Designated landmark
    710 feet
  2. Junior League Hotel for Women Designated landmark
    750 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 parks
  • 3 public spaces
  • 2 park features
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Brearley School
    630 feet
  2. Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    680 feet
  3. Clarke School - NYC Preschool
    770 feet
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  1. Eastside Day School Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,000 feet
  2. York Avenue Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,000 feet
  3. Chapin School
    1,020 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. East River Walk Park
    120 feet
  2. Carl Schurz Main Lawn in Carl Schurz Park Park feature
    930 feet
  3. Carl Schurz Park
    990 feet
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  1. Catbird Playground
    1,060 feet
  2. John Jay Park
    1,070 feet
  3. John Jay Park Playground
    1,250 feet
  4. Pavilion in John Jay Park Park feature
    1,290 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 60 East End Avenue Public space
    580 feet
  2. Public space at Austen House Public space
    840 feet
  3. Public space at Caldwell Public space
    870 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. John Jay Pool Swimming pool
    1,090 feet

Supermarkets

  1. D'Agostino Supermarket
    1,250 feet
  2. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and four 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 81st Street or East 81st 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 Parks, NYC Technology and Innovation, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.