Lexington Avenue & East 68th Street

Lexington Avenue and East 68th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, Manhattan. The corner is also named Audre Lorde Way by local law. It lies on the edge of the Upper East Side Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. CUNY Hunter College is 360 feet away. The nearest subway, 68 St-Hunter College, is about a minute on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are 29 public places and 54 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
68 St-Hunter College
50 feet · 1 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
Lexington Av/E 68 St · M98
Within a walk
29 places
5 day care or pre-K sites, 5 listed historic places and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lexington Avenue & East 68th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 68 St-Hunter College, 50 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 8 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 68 St-Hunter College 6
    50 feet
    6

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. 6 …
Downtown
1 line
  1. 6 …

Also within a walk

  1. Lexington Av/63 St M, Q
    1,310 feet
    M Q
  2. 72 St Q
    0.3 miles
    Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Tempestuous Terrain; Liminal Location” (2024) by Lisa Corinne Davis at the 68 St-Hunter College station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lexington Av/E 68 St, 70 feet away, for the M98.

  • 24 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lexington Av/E 68 St M98
    70 feet
    M98

Next buses at this stop

  1. M98 …

Live arrivals

Lexington Avenue carries a bus lane, all day on weekdays.

Cycling

  • 69 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 68 St & 3 Ave 36 docks in all
    570 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Queensboro Bridge at Queensboro Bridge & 2nd Avenue at East 59th Street, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1855 1st Avenue Gas station
    1.8 miles
  2. 301 East 79th Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2019
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, December 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10065
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 8
City Council district
4
Police precinct
19
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill
Elevation
81 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Audre Lorde Way, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 4,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1927 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Audre Lorde Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 17 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2019 and October 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 3 hour commercial vehicles Monday to Friday 8:30am to 1pm, 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Friday 1pm to 10pm, 2 hour passenger vehicles Saturday 9am to 10pm on Lexington Avenue (west side).

North side of East 68th Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of East 68th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Lexington Avenue

  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-10PM SATURDAY 9AM-10PM
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-10PM SATURDAY 9AM-10PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 103995, 105577 and 106701.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Upper East Side Historic District.

Within 820 feet are eight Individual Landmarks, and 191 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Federal. They were mostly built between 1871 and 1914.

  1. 130-134 East 67th Street Apartment Building Designated landmark
    360 feet
  2. 131-135 East 66th Street Apartment House Designated landmark
    450 feet
  3. Park Avenue Armory Designated landmark
    480 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 public places.

  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 5 listed historic places
  • 4 public spaces
  • 4 schools
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 8 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Park East Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    330 feet
  2. Rabbi Arthur Schneier Park East Day School
    350 feet
  3. CUNY Hunter College Landmark
    360 feet
Show all 11
  1. Diki Harmony Play House Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    560 feet
  2. Manhattan High School for Girls School
    580 feet
  3. The Children's Learning Center at Hunter College Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · landmark
    700 feet
  4. NY School of Interior Design College
    710 feet
  5. Dominican Academy School
    820 feet
  6. New York Kids Club Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    970 feet
  7. The Episcopal School in the City of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    990 feet
  8. St Vincent Ferrer High School
    1,060 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Trump Palace Public space
    810 feet
  2. Public space at 254 East 68th Street Public space
    1,230 feet
  3. Public space at 733 Park Avenue Public space
    1,270 feet
Show all 4
  1. Public space at Phoenix Public space
    1,310 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Upper East Side Historic District (Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation) Listed historic place
    140 feet
  2. Mount Sinai Dispensary Listed historic place
    260 feet
  3. East 66th St., 131-135, East 67th St., 130-134, Apt. Bldgs. At Listed historic place
    430 feet
Show all 6
  1. Building at 210 East 68th Street Listed historic place
    680 feet
  2. Asia Society Museum
    940 feet
  3. Upper East Side Historic District Listed historic place
    1,120 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Americas Society Art Gallery Arts or cultural center
    610 feet
  2. Italian Cultural Institute Arts or cultural center · listed historic place
    630 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Park East Synagogue Landmark · listed historic place
    380 feet
  2. St Vincents Ferrer Church Listed historic place
    610 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Lenox Hill Post Office Listed historic place
    1,280 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 39/Ladder 16 Fire station · landmark
    370 feet
  2. 19th Precinct Police station
    370 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    260 feet
  2. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. D'Agostino Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,300 feet
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  3. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    1,000 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 54 places to eat and four food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 68th Street or Lexington Avenue.

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