FDR Drive & East 78th Street

FDR Drive and East 78th Street meet at a three-way junction in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. John Jay Park is 40 feet away. The nearest bus stop, E 79 St/East End Av, is 610 feet away for the M79 SBS, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, two of them parks, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
FDR Drive
a ramp starts at this corner
Nearest bus stop
610 feet
E 79 St/East End Av · M79 SBS
Within a walk
11 places
2 parks, 2 schools and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
FDR Drive & East 78th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 79 St/East End Av, 610 feet away, for the M79 SBS.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 79 St/East End Av M79 SBS
    610 feet
    M79 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. M79 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 82 St & East End Ave 33 docks in all
    1,250 feet

By car

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

  1. 1855 1st Avenue Gas station
    1.2 miles
  2. 1385 York Avenue Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10075
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 8
City Council district
5
Police precinct
19
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island
Elevation
8 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Three 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.

Trees

NYC Parks records 67 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 21 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Beaux-Arts and neo-Renaissance. They were mostly built between 1904 and 1911.

  1. Junior League Hotel for Women Designated landmark
    110 feet
  2. Bishop Henry Codman Memorial Buildings Designated landmark
    330 feet
  3. East River Homes / Cherokee Apartments Designated landmark
    440 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in John Jay Park.

  1. Eaphae-Aekyad #2 Sculpture by Douglas Abdell, 1979
    530 feet
  2. Kryeti-Aekyad #2 Sculpture by Douglas Abdell, 1979
    560 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 2 schools
  • 1 library
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park feature
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 158 Bayard Taylor School
    800 feet
  2. Yorkville East Middle School
    800 feet
  3. Insur Ed Trade or language school
    1,090 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. John Jay Park
    40 feet
  2. East River Walk Park
    190 feet
  3. John Jay Park Playground
    220 feet
Show all 4
  1. Pavilion in John Jay Park Park feature
    260 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Austen House Public space
    740 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. City & Suburban Homes Company's York Avenue Estate Listed historic place
    430 feet
  2. Webster Library
    920 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. John Jay Pool Swimming pool
    150 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,200 feet

Supermarkets

  1. D'Agostino Supermarket
    1,310 feet
  2. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,130 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and three food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, 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 78th 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.