FDR Drive & East 79th Street

FDR Drive and East 79th Street meet at a three-way junction in Upper East Side-Yorkville, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 32 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. East River Walk is 160 feet away. The nearest bus stop, E 79 St/East End Av, is 330 feet away for the M79 SBS, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, five of them day care or pre-K sites, and six places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
32 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
FDR Drive
280 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
330 feet
E 79 St/East End Av · M79 SBS
Within a walk
17 places
5 day care or pre-K sites, 3 public spaces and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
FDR Drive & East 79th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 79 St/East End Av, 330 feet away, for the M79 SBS.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. M79 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at FDR Drive & East 78th Street, 280 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 1855 1st Avenue Gas station
    1.1 miles
  2. 55 East End Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    960 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 32 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 12 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

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-Yorkville
Elevation
10 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 4,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

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
    220 feet
  2. Bishop Henry Codman Memorial Buildings Designated landmark
    310 feet
  3. East River Homes / Cherokee Apartments Designated landmark
    590 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
    770 feet
  2. Kryeti-Aekyad #2 Sculpture by Douglas Abdell, 1979
    820 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 public spaces
  • 2 parks
  • 2 schools
  • 1 library
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 158 Bayard Taylor School
    1,090 feet
  2. Yorkville East Middle School
    1,090 feet
  3. Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,210 feet
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  1. Eastside Day School Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,250 feet
  2. York Avenue Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,250 feet
  3. Hopscotch Montessori Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,270 feet
  4. Clarke School - NYC Preschool
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. East River Walk Park
    160 feet
  2. John Jay Park
    310 feet
  3. John Jay Park Playground
    500 feet
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  1. Pavilion in John Jay Park Park feature
    540 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Austen House Public space
    460 feet
  2. Public space at 60 East End Avenue Public space
    1,110 feet
  3. Public space at Caldwell Public space
    1,130 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. City & Suburban Homes Company's York Avenue Estate Listed historic place
    710 feet
  2. Webster Library
    1,200 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. John Jay Pool Swimming pool
    430 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    950 feet

Supermarkets

  1. D'Agostino Supermarket
    1,060 feet
  2. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    850 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and four 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 79th 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.