East Drive & East 90th Street

East Drive and East 90th Street meet at a three-way junction in Central Park, Manhattan. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Fred Lebow Statue in Central Park is 100 feet away, and the stele “John Purroy Mitchel” is 110 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 5 Av/E 90 St, is 130 feet away for the M1, M2, M3 and M4, and 16 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, six of them schools, and 17 places to eat.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
FDR Drive
0.9 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
5 Av/E 90 St · M1, M2, M3, M4
Within a walk
21 places
6 schools, 3 listed historic places and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East Drive & East 90th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 5 Av/E 90 St, 130 feet away, for the M1, M2, M3 and M4.

  • 16 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 5 Av/E 90 St M1, M2, M3, M4
    130 feet
    M1 M2 M3 M4

Next buses at this stop

  1. M1 …
  2. M2 …
  3. M3 …
  4. M4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on East 90th Street and East Drive.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 5 Ave & E 87 St 39 docks in all
    840 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at York Avenue & East 92nd Street, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1855 1st Avenue Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 11 East 86th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10000
City Council district
6
Police precinct
22
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Central Park
Elevation
111 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,300 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 1925 and 1958.

Trees

NYC Parks records 33 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 85 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1890 and 1928.

  1. The National Academy School of Fine Arts Designated landmark
    380 feet
  2. The Church of the Heavenly Rest Parish Hall Designated landmark
    390 feet
  3. Hotel Graham Designated landmark
    590 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. John Purroy Mitchel Stele by Adolph Alexander Weinman, 1928
    110 feet
  2. William T. Stead Memorial Stele by George William Frampton, 1920
    270 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

  • 6 schools
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 3 museums
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 other places

This corner stands inside Central Park.

Schools and child care

  1. Convent of the Sacred Heart School
    510 feet
  2. St Davids School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    560 feet
  3. Spence School Landmark
    780 feet
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  1. Horace Mann School Nursery-Kinderga School
    870 feet
  2. Nightingale Bamford School
    890 feet
  3. St. Thomas Moore Play Group Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,060 feet
  4. Dalton School
    1,130 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Central Park Listed historic place
    surrounds this corner
  2. Fred Lebow Statue in Central Park Park feature
    100 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 45 East 89th Street Public space
    800 feet
  2. Public space at Park Regis Public space
    1,160 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
    290 feet
  2. Andrew Carnegie Mansion Listed historic place
    400 feet
  3. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Landmark · listed historic place
    530 feet
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  1. James A. Jr. Burden House and Kahn, Otto H. House Listed historic place
    530 feet
  2. Jewish Museum Listed historic place
    700 feet
  3. Apartment at 1261 Madison Avenue Listed historic place
    720 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Beloved Disciple Chapel Landmark · listed historic place
    340 feet
  2. St Thomas More Church House of worship
    880 feet
  3. Brick Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,280 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    950 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Westside Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 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 nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 90th Street or East Drive.

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