John Finley Walk & East 81st Street Pedestrian Overpass

John Finley Walk and East 81st Street Pedestrian Overpass meet at a three-way junction in Upper East Side-Yorkville, Manhattan. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. East River Walk is 10 feet away. The nearest bus stop, E 80 St/East End Av, is 530 feet away for the M79 SBS, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and two places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along John Finley Walk.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
FDR Drive
890 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
530 feet
E 80 St/East End Av · M79 SBS
Within a walk
16 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 3 parks and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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John Finley Walk & East 81st Street Pedestrian Overpass Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 80 St/East End Av, 530 feet away, for the M79 SBS.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 80 St/East End Av M79 SBS · Shelter
    530 feet
    M79 SBS
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M79 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on John Finley Walk.

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at FDR Drive & East 78th Street, 890 feet by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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 January 2016.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10028
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 8
City Council district
5
Police precinct
19
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper East Side-Yorkville

The streets

  • One travel lane

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 34 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and four buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1909 and 1913.

  1. Bishop Henry Codman Memorial Buildings Designated landmark
    770 feet
  2. Junior League Hotel for Women Designated landmark
    790 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 parks
  • 3 public spaces
  • 2 park features
  • 2 schools
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Brearley School
    520 feet
  2. Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    790 feet
  3. Clarke School - NYC Preschool
    880 feet
Show all 6
  1. Eastside Day School Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,120 feet
  2. York Avenue Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,120 feet
  3. Chapin School
    1,130 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. East River Walk Park
    10 feet
  2. Carl Schurz Main Lawn in Carl Schurz Park Park feature
    810 feet
  3. Carl Schurz Park
    880 feet
Show all 6
  1. Catbird Playground
    1,040 feet
  2. John Jay Park
    1,180 feet
  3. Pavilion in John Jay Park Park feature
    1,200 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 60 East End Avenue Public space
    690 feet
  2. Public space at Austen House Public space
    950 feet
  3. Public space at Caldwell Public space
    980 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. John Jay Pool Swimming pool
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

  1. D'Agostino Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two 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 81st Street Pedestrian Overpass or John Finley Walk.

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