FDR Drive & East 63rd Street

FDR Drive and East 63rd Street meet at a three-way junction in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The sculpture “East River Roundabout” is 570 feet away. The nearest subway, Lexington Av/63 St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the M and Q. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them parks, and 17 places to eat. About 3,000 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
7 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Lexington Av/63 St
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · M, Q
Nearest bus stop
450 feet
York Av/E 64 St · M31
Within a walk
9 places
4 parks, 1 college and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
FDR Drive & East 63rd Street 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 nine 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, 450 feet away, for the M31.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. M31 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 60 St & York Ave 33 docks in all
    1,070 feet

By car

A ramp to the FDR Drive southbound starts at this corner.

  1. 1855 1st Avenue Gas station
    2 miles
  2. 420 East 61st Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1,110 feet
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

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

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Three of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 3,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

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

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and 11 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Beaux-Arts. They were mostly built between 1902 and 1906.

  1. City and Suburban Homes Company, First Avenue Estate Designated landmark
    520 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
    570 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 parks
  • 1 college
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 hospital
  • 1 museum
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Rockefeller Child and Family Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    600 feet
  2. Rockefeller University College
    1,110 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. East River Walk Park
    470 feet
  2. Andrew Haswell Green Park
    510 feet
  3. Twenty-Four Sycamores Park
    570 feet
Show all 5
  1. Twenty-Four Sycamores Park Playground
    630 feet
  2. Queensboro Oval Park
    1,040 feet

Health care

  1. Rockefeller University Hospital
    1,110 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Mount Vernon Hotel Museum Landmark · listed historic place
    880 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 places to eat and two food stores.

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 of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

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

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