Lexington Avenue & East 75th Street

Lexington Avenue and East 75th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. In 2025, 3,610 bus-lane camera tickets were recorded here. St Jean Baptiste High School is 330 feet away, and the Engine 44 firehouse is 880 feet away. The nearest subway, 77 St, is about two minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are 24 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 53 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
77 St
540 feet · 2 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
380 feet
Lexington Av/E 77 St · M101, M102, M103
Within a walk
24 places
8 religious buildings, 6 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lexington Avenue & East 75th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 77 St, 540 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 77 St 6
    540 feet
    6

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 68 St-Hunter College 6
    0.3 miles
    6
  2. 72 St Q
    0.4 miles
    Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “4 Seasons Seasoned” (2004) by Robert Kushner at the 77 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lexington Av/E 77 St, 380 feet away, for the M101, M102 and M103.

  • 23 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lexington Av/E 77 St M101, M102, M103
    380 feet
    M101 M102 M103

Next buses at this stop

  1. M101 …
  2. M102 …
  3. M103 …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

  • 73 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 4 of them on-street corrals
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 76 St & Park Ave 28 docks in all
    840 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at East 70th Street, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1855 1st Avenue Gas station
    1.5 miles
  2. 207 East 74th Street Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    1,140 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 eight crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2019

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 3,610 bus-lane camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 54th most of the 174 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 3, 1,314 more were issued.

Every corner with bus-lane camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10021
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 8
City Council district
4
Police precinct
19
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill
Elevation
54 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 4,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 53 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 41 signs on these blocks
  • 15 different rules
  • 6 active meters
  • 6 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2018 and July 2024; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 75th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of East 75th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of Lexington Avenue

  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-7PM SATURDAY 9AM-7PM
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM SATURDAY 9AM-7PM
  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 1 sign 3 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

West side of Lexington Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 1PM-7PM SATURDAY 9AM-7PM
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING SATURDAY 9AM-7PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 110194, 110195, 111050, 111051, 111141 and 112070.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are 16 Individual Landmarks, and 174 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec. They were mostly built between 1880 and 1912.

  1. 167 East 73rd Street Carriage House Designated landmark
    490 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 public places.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 hospital

Schools and child care

  1. Temple Israel of the City of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · landmark
    300 feet
  2. St Jean Baptiste High School Landmark
    330 feet
  3. Sam School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    370 feet
Show all 11
  1. Resurrection Episcopal Day School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    530 feet
  2. Buckley School
    650 feet
  3. Allen-Stevenson School Landmark
    820 feet
  4. Hewitt School
    860 feet
  5. The Buckley School in the City of New York School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    940 feet
  6. J.H.S. 167 Robert F. Wagner School
    980 feet
  7. Birch Wathen Lenox School
    1,180 feet
  8. All Souls School Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,300 feet

Health care

  1. Lenox Hill Hospital
    950 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. East 73rd Street Historic District Listed historic place
    780 feet
  2. East 78th Street Houses Listed historic place
    990 feet
  3. Whitney Museum of American Art Listed historic place
    1,000 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Jean Baptiste RC Church Landmark · listed historic place
    260 feet
  2. Israel Temple Landmark
    300 feet
  3. Church of the Resurrection Landmark
    370 feet
Show all 5
  1. Madison Ave Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,250 feet
  2. Unitarian Church All Soul House of worship
    1,300 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 44 Fire station
    880 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    120 feet
  2. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    490 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    750 feet

Supermarkets

  1. D'Agostino Supermarket
    220 feet
  2. Gristedes Supermarket
    1,280 feet
  3. Morton Williams Supermarket
    1,320 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    460 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  3. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 53 places to eat and 11 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 75th Street or Lexington Avenue.

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