FDR Drive & East 23rd Street

FDR Drive and East 23rd Street meet at a four-way crossing in Murray Hill-Kips Bay, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 35 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Stuyvesant Cove Park is under 10 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Avenue C/E 23 St, is 170 feet away for the M9 and M23 SBS, and 20 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, two of them schools, and two places to eat.

Safety record
16 hurt
35 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
FDR Drive
0.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
Avenue C/E 23 St · M9, M23 SBS
Within a walk
10 places
2 schools, 1 day care or pre-K site and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
FDR Drive & East 23rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue C/E 23 St, 170 feet away, for the M9 and M23 SBS.

  • 20 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue C/E 23 St M9, M23 SBS
    170 feet
    M9 M23 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. M9 …
  2. M23 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 23 St & FDR Dr 45 docks in all
    480 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at Avenue C, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2.1 miles
  2. 350 East 30th Street Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.6 miles
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 35 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 1998

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10010
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 6
City Council district
4
Police precinct
13
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Murray Hill-Kips Bay
Elevation
6 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,500 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 in 1947.

Trees

NYC Parks records 30 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Neoclassical Roman, and built between 1904 and 1906.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 ferry landing
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. British International School of NY School
    850 feet
  2. U N International School
    900 feet
  3. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    950 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Stuyvesant Cove Park
    under 10 feet
  2. Asser Levy Playground
    230 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Waterside Plaza Public space
    560 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Public Baths Listed historic place
    490 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Asser Levy Pool Swimming pool
    260 feet
  2. Asser Levy Recreation Center Landmark
    370 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other places

  1. 24 Street Ferry Landing
    310 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk 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 23rd Street or FDR Drive.

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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.