FDR Drive & East 37th Street

FDR Drive and East 37th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Murray Hill-Kips Bay, Manhattan. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. St. Vartan Park is 690 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 1 Av/E 36 St, is 530 feet away for the M15, and 23 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, two of them parks, and nine places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along East 37th Street.

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FDR Drive & East 37th Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 1 Av/E 36 St, 530 feet away, for the M15.

  • 23 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 1 Av/E 36 St M15
    530 feet
    M15

Next buses at this stop

  1. M15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on East 37th Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive northbound, 410 feet by car along the streets.

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

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 October 2020.

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 two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 4,400 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 1985 and 2014.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 public spaces
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 ferry landing
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The River School
    660 feet
  2. Pre-K Center at 330 East 38th Street Pre-K center
    750 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. East River Esplanade Park
    110 feet
  2. St. Vartan Park
    690 feet
  3. St. Vartan Park Playground
    980 feet
Show all 4
  1. Robert Moses Playground
    1,080 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Manhattan Place Public space
    320 feet
  2. Public space at East River Realty South Public space
    560 feet
  3. Public space at Corinthian Public space
    750 feet
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  1. Public space at Rivergate Public space
    820 feet
  2. Public space at New York Tower Public space
    1,110 feet
  3. Public space at East River Realty North Public space
    1,140 feet
  4. Public space at Whitney Public space
    1,250 feet
  5. Public space at The Water Club Public space
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. D'Agostino Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

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

Other places

  1. E 34 St Midtown East Ferry Landing
    410 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine 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 of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

Sources: NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, 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.