FDR Drive & East 34th Street

FDR Drive and East 34th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Murray Hill-Kips Bay, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 65 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection. East River Esplanade is 620 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Marginal St/E 34 St, is 110 feet away for the M34 SBS, and 29 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, two of them parks, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
45 hurt
65 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
FDR Drive
50 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Marginal St/E 34 St · M34 SBS
Within a walk
13 places
5 public spaces, 2 parks and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
FDR Drive & East 34th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Marginal St/E 34 St, 110 feet away, for the M34 SBS.

  • 29 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Marginal St/E 34 St M34 SBS
    110 feet
    M34 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. M34 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 16 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. FDR Drive & E 35 St 123 docks in all
    510 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at FDR Drive & East 34th Street, 50 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 466 10th Avenue Gas station
    1.8 miles
  2. 332-342 East 34th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    650 feet
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 65 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 45 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection, a designation it applies to corners selected for attention on their injury record. It is not a record of work done.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, April 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10016
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 6
City Council district
4
Police precinct
17
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Murray Hill-Kips Bay

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • Posted limits from 25 to 40 mph
  • 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 1984 and 2014.

Since 2014 at least 160 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 24 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 public spaces
  • 2 parks
  • 1 college
  • 1 ferry landing
  • 1 hospital
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The River School
    670 feet
  2. NYU School of Medicine College
    870 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. East River Esplanade Park
    620 feet
  2. St. Vartan Park
    780 feet
  3. St. Vartan Park Playground
    930 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Rivergate Public space
    240 feet
  2. Public space at The Water Club Public space
    500 feet
  3. Public space at East River Realty South Public space
    850 feet
Show all 5
  1. Public space at Manhattan Place Public space
    900 feet
  2. Public space at 300 East 34th Street Public space
    1,130 feet

Health care

  1. NYU Langone Hospitals Hospital
    870 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Vartan Armenian Church House of worship
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

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

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.5 miles

Other places

  1. E 34 St Midtown East Ferry Landing
    480 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and two food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 34th Street or FDR Drive.

Sources: 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, NYC Parks, NYC Technology and Innovation, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.