East End Avenue & East 86th Street

East End Avenue and East 86th Street meet at a five-way junction in Upper East Side-Yorkville, Manhattan. The corner lies on the edge of the Henderson Place Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Catbird Playground is 240 feet away, and East 90 Street Ferry Landing is 1,100 feet away. The nearest subway, 86 St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places and eight places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
86 St
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
830 feet
York Av/E 86 St · M31
Within a walk
17 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 3 park features and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East End Avenue & East 86th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 86 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. 86 St Q
    0.4 miles
    Q

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. Q …
Downtown
1 line
  1. Q …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Subway Portraits” (2017) by Chuck Close at the 86 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is York Av/E 86 St, 830 feet away, for the M31.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. York Av/E 86 St M31 · Countdown sign
    830 feet
    M31
    Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. M31 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 16 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. East End Ave & E 86 St 27 docks in all
    150 feet

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
    0.8 miles
  2. 170 East End Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    400 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

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
25 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

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

Since 2014 at least 35 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 247 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 12 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2015 and July 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 86th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 7:30AM-8AM

South side of East 86th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-8:30AM

West side of East End Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Henderson Place Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 22 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Queen Anne. They were mostly built between 1880 and 1882.

  1. Gracie Mansion Designated landmark
    660 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Chapin School
    550 feet
  2. Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    770 feet
  3. Clarke School - NYC Preschool
    800 feet
Show all 5
  1. Brearley School
    1,140 feet
  2. Association to Benefit Children Preschool
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Carl Schurz Main Lawn in Carl Schurz Park Park feature
    40 feet
  2. Carl Schurz Park
    90 feet
  3. Catbird Playground
    240 feet
Show all 6
  1. Carl Schurz Promenade in Carl Schurz Park Park feature
    310 feet
  2. Peter Pan Statue in Carl Schurz Park Park feature
    470 feet
  3. Asphalt Green Park
    1,120 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Channel Club Public space
    990 feet
  2. Public space at 444 East 86th Street Public space
    1,020 feet
  3. Public space at 60 East End Avenue Public space
    1,130 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Henderson Place Historic District Listed historic place
    250 feet
  2. Archibald Gracie Mansion Listed historic place
    450 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    870 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    980 feet
  2. Fairway Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. D'Agostino Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

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

Other places

  1. East 90 Street Ferry Landing
    1,100 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Carl Schurz Park Path, East 86th 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.