FDR Drive & East 63rd Street Pedestrian Overpass

FDR Drive and East 63rd Street Pedestrian Overpass meet at a four-way crossing in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, Manhattan. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. East River Walk is 60 feet away. The nearest subway, Lexington Av/63 St, is about ten minutes on foot, for the M and Q. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, four of them parks, and eight places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along East 63rd Street Pedestrian Overpass.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Lexington Av/63 St
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · M, Q
Nearest bus stop
620 feet
York Av/E 64 St · M31
Within a walk
10 places
4 parks, 1 college and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
FDR Drive & East 63rd Street Pedestrian Overpass Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Lexington Av/63 St, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Lexington Av/63 St M, Q
    0.5 miles
    M Q

Next trains at this station

Uptown & Queens
2 lines
  1. M …
  2. Q …
Downtown
2 lines
  1. M …
  2. Q …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Elevated” (2017) by Jean Shin at the Lexington Av/63 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is York Av/E 64 St, 620 feet away, for the M31.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. York Av/E 64 St M31
    620 feet
    M31

Next buses at this stop

  1. M31 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on East 63rd Street Pedestrian Overpass.

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 60 St & York Ave 33 docks in all
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10065
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 8
City Council district
5
Police precinct
19
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island

Homes

About 2,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 25 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the American hornbeam and the littleleaf linden.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and seven buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Beaux-Arts. They were mostly built between 1902 and 1910.

  1. City and Suburban Homes Company, First Avenue Estate Designated landmark
    590 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Andrew Haswell Green Park.

  1. East River Roundabout Sculpture by Alice Aycock, 1995
    620 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 parks
  • 1 college
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 hospital
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Rockefeller Child and Family Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    760 feet
  2. Rockefeller University College
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. East River Walk Park
    60 feet
  2. Andrew Haswell Green Park
    100 feet
  3. Twenty-Four Sycamores Park
    980 feet
Show all 5
  1. Twenty-Four Sycamores Park Playground
    1,030 feet
  2. Queensboro Oval Park
    1,300 feet

Health care

  1. Rockefeller University Hospital
    1,270 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Mount Vernon Hotel Museum Listed historic place
    1,090 feet
  2. Founder's Hall, the Rockefeller University Listed historic place
    1,160 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 63rd Street Pedestrian Overpass or FDR Drive.

Sources: MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYPD, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Technology and Innovation, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 3, 2026.