East End Avenue & East 88th Street

East End Avenue and East 88th Street meet at a three-way junction in Upper East Side-Yorkville, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Carl Schurz Promenade in Carl Schurz Park is 30 feet away, and Chapin School is 1,090 feet away. The nearest subway, 86 St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, three of them park features, and five places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
86 St
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
840 feet
York Av/E 88 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 88th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 86 St, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. 86 St Q
    0.5 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 88 St, 840 feet away, for the M31 and M86 SBS.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. York Av/E 88 St M31, M86 SBS
    840 feet
    M31 M86 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. M31 …
  2. M86 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at York Avenue & East 92nd Street, 0.3 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
    200 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2024.

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
24 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,900 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 1920 and 1960.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 158 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
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2019 and April 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 88th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of East 88th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of East End Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 23 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
    230 feet
  2. Municipal Asphalt Plant Designated landmark
    730 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 listed historic places
  • 2 parks
  • 2 schools
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Chapin School
    1,090 feet
  2. The Goddard School Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,200 feet
  3. Yorkville Community School
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Carl Schurz Promenade in Carl Schurz Park Park feature
    30 feet
  2. Carl Schurz Park
    70 feet
  3. Carl Schurz Main Lawn in Carl Schurz Park Park feature
    290 feet
Show all 6
  1. Asphalt Green Park
    580 feet
  2. Peter Pan Statue in Carl Schurz Park Park feature
    590 feet
  3. Catbird Playground
    780 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Andover Public space
    1,030 feet
  2. Public space at Channel Club Public space
    1,200 feet
  3. Public space at East River Towers Public space
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Henderson Place Historic District Listed historic place
    490 feet
  2. Archibald Gracie Mansion Listed historic place
    560 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,200 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    1,000 feet

Pharmacies

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

Other places

  1. East 90 Street Ferry Landing
    560 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 88th 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.