FDR Drive & East 27th Street

FDR Drive and East 27th Street meet at a three-way junction in Murray Hill-Kips Bay, Manhattan. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Bellevue Hospital Center is 590 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 1 Av/E 28 St, is 1,190 feet away for the M15, and 25 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and three places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
FDR Drive
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
1,190 feet
1 Av/E 28 St · M15
Within a walk
6 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 1 ambulance station and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
FDR Drive & East 27th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 1 Av/E 28 St, 1,190 feet away, for the M15.

  • 25 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 1 Av/E 28 St M15
    1,190 feet
    M15

Next buses at this stop

  1. M15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 25 St & 1 Ave 35 docks in all
    1,300 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at FDR Drive & East 30th Street, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2.2 miles
  2. 350 East 30th Street Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.4 miles
  3. West 24th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

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 April 2017.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10016
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 6
City Council district
4
Police precinct
13
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Murray Hill-Kips Bay
Elevation
8 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,500 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 1973.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 hospital
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 public space

Schools and child care

  1. The Acorn School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,280 feet
  2. Bellevue Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,310 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Alexandria Science Center Public space
    900 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 8 Ambulance station
    400 feet
  2. Bellevue Hospital Center Hospital
    590 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. R & S Building Listed historic place
    1,130 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fairway Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. D'Agostino Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 27th Street or FDR Drive.

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