East End Avenue & East 87th Street

East End Avenue and East 87th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper East Side-Yorkville, Manhattan. The corner lies on the edge of the Henderson Place Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Carl Schurz Main Lawn in Carl Schurz Park is 30 feet away. The nearest subway, 86 St, is about eight minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, three of them park features, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
86 St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
800 feet
York Av/E 87 St · M31, M86 SBS
Within a walk
15 places
3 park features, 3 public spaces and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East End Avenue & East 87th 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 eight 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 87 St, 800 feet away, for the M31 and M86 SBS.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. York Av/E 87 St M31, M86 SBS
    800 feet
    M31 M86 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. M31 …
  2. M86 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at York Avenue & East 92nd Street, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1855 1st Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 170 East End Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    120 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 September 2019.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10128
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 8
City Council district
5
Police precinct
19
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper East Side-Yorkville
Elevation
29 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,400 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 181 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2020 and February 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 87th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of East 87th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of East End Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 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
    400 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Chapin School
    830 feet
  2. Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,050 feet
  3. Clarke School - NYC Preschool
    1,080 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Carl Schurz Main Lawn in Carl Schurz Park Park feature
    30 feet
  2. Carl Schurz Promenade in Carl Schurz Park Park feature
    30 feet
  3. Carl Schurz Park
    120 feet
Show all 6
  1. Peter Pan Statue in Carl Schurz Park Park feature
    330 feet
  2. Catbird Playground
    520 feet
  3. Asphalt Green Park
    840 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Channel Club Public space
    940 feet
  2. Public space at Andover Public space
    1,290 feet
  3. Public space at 444 East 86th Street Public space
    1,300 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Henderson Place Historic District Listed historic place
    230 feet
  2. Archibald Gracie Mansion Listed historic place
    300 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    740 feet

Pharmacies

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

Other places

  1. East 90 Street Ferry Landing
    820 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Carl Schurz Park Path, East 87th 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.