East 81st Street & East End Avenue

East 81st Street and East End Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Upper East Side-Yorkville, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Junior League Hotel for Women stands 740 feet away. The nearest bus stop, E 80 St/East End Av, is 310 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
1 hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
FDR Drive
920 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
310 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

Map

Layers
East 81st Street & East End Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 80 St/East End Av, 310 feet away, for the M79 SBS.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. M79 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 20 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
    320 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at FDR Drive & East 78th Street, 920 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
    310 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2022

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
Elevation
30 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 6,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 64 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 26 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2019 and February 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 81st Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of East 81st Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of East End Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of East End Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and ten buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Collegiate Gothic. They were mostly built between 1908 and 1910.

  1. Bishop Henry Codman Memorial Buildings Designated landmark
    670 feet
  2. Junior League Hotel for Women Designated landmark
    740 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. Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    570 feet
  2. Clarke School - NYC Preschool
    660 feet
  3. Brearley School
    740 feet
Show all 6
  1. Eastside Day School Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    900 feet
  2. York Avenue Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    900 feet
  3. Chapin School
    910 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. East River Walk Park
    230 feet
  2. Carl Schurz Main Lawn in Carl Schurz Park Park feature
    840 feet
  3. Carl Schurz Park
    900 feet
Show all 7
  1. Catbird Playground
    950 feet
  2. John Jay Park
    960 feet
  3. John Jay Park Playground
    1,150 feet
  4. Pavilion in John Jay Park Park feature
    1,180 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 60 East End Avenue Public space
    470 feet
  2. Public space at Austen House Public space
    730 feet
  3. Public space at Caldwell Public space
    760 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. John Jay Pool Swimming pool
    980 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. D'Agostino Supermarket
    1,140 feet
  2. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,290 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 81st Street or East End Avenue.

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