Madison Avenue & East 23rd Street

Madison Avenue and East 23rd Street meet at a three-way junction in Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 20 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The statue “Roscoe Conkling” is 150 feet away, and Wick Building stands 480 feet away. The nearest subway, 23 St, is about a minute on foot, and 11 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 37 public places, nine of them listed historic places, and 140 places to eat. A bus lane runs along East 23rd Street, all day.

Safety record
14 hurt
20 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
23 St
330 feet · 1 min on foot · R, W
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
E 23 St/Madison Av · BxM7, QM21
Within a walk
37 places
9 listed historic places, 6 day care or pre-K sites and 10 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Madison Avenue & East 23rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 23 St, 330 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 11 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 23 St R, W
    330 feet
    R W

Next trains at this station

Uptown
2 lines
  1. R …
  2. W …
Downtown
2 lines
  1. R …
  2. W …

Also within a walk

  1. 23 St-Baruch College 6
    430 feet
    6
  2. 28 St 6
    1,310 feet
    6

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Memories of Twenty-Third Street” (2002) by Keith Godard at the 23 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 23 St/Madison Av, 120 feet away, for the BxM7 and QM21.

  • 46 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 23 St/Madison Av BxM7, QM21 · Shelter
    120 feet
    BxM7 QM21
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. BxM7 …
  2. QM21 …

Live arrivals

East 23rd Street carries a bus lane, all day, every day.

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 24 St & Park Ave S 79 docks in all
    750 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at FDR Drive & East 30th Street, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    1.3 miles
  2. 4 West 21st Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. West 24th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 20 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 14 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, May 2018
  • Turn calming, December 2020
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10010
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 5
City Council district
2 and 3 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
13
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square
Elevation
37 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 96 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2024 and February 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 3 hour commercial vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 4pm on East 23rd Street (south side).

North side of East 23rd Street

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Madison Avenue

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 102044 and 107037.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and 81 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Renaissance. They were mostly built between 1851 and 1904.

  1. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower Designated landmark
    230 feet
  2. Flatiron Building Designated landmark
    460 feet
  3. Wick Building Designated landmark
    480 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists three works near this corner, the nearest in Madison Square Park.

  1. Roscoe Conkling Statue by John Quincy Adams Ward, 1893
    150 feet
  2. William Henry Seward Statue by Randolph Rogers, 1876
    330 feet
  3. Memorial to the Victims of the Injustice of the Holocaust Sculpture by Harriet Feigenbaum, 1990
    620 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 37 public places.

  • 9 listed historic places
  • 6 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 schools
  • 4 trade or language schools
  • 3 public spaces
  • 11 other places

Schools and child care

  1. New York Kids Club Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    900 feet
  2. Baruch College Campus High School
    960 feet
  3. Pacific College of Health & Science College
    1,040 feet
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  1. The Montessori at Flatiron Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    960 feet
  2. Ecole International Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,010 feet
  3. The Ecole Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,010 feet
  4. American Hi-Tech Business School Trade or language school
    1,040 feet
  5. Betty Owen Secretarial Systems Trade or language school
    1,040 feet
  6. General Assembly Trade or language school
    1,040 feet
  7. Ecole Internationale de New York School
    1,040 feet
  8. Nord Anglia International School, New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,060 feet
  9. Peak Services for Children Preschool
    1,160 feet
  10. CUNY Bernard M. Baruch College
    1,180 feet
  11. Rebecca School
    1,250 feet
  12. Institute of Culinary Education (The Trade or language school
    1,280 feet
  13. School of the Future High School
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Madison Square Park
    60 feet
  2. Police Officer Moira Ann Smith Playground
    630 feet
  3. Worth Square
    770 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Madison Green Public space
    270 feet
  2. Flatiron Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    780 feet
  3. Worth Square Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    830 feet
Show all 5
  1. Public space at New York Merchandise Mart Public space
    850 feet
  2. Public space at Stanford Public space
    860 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Building at 304 Park Avenue South Listed historic place
    470 feet
  2. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Complex Listed historic place
    530 feet
  3. Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State Listed historic place
    670 feet
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  1. Sidewalk Clock at 200 5th Avenue, Manhattan Listed historic place
    680 feet
  2. United Charities Building Complex Listed historic place
    860 feet
  3. Church Missions House Listed historic place
    900 feet
  4. Scribner Building Listed historic place
    920 feet
  5. National Museum of Mathematics Museum
    960 feet
  6. New York Life Building Listed historic place
    1,170 feet
  7. George Washington Hotel Listed historic place
    1,230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Calvary St George Episcopal Church House of worship
    990 feet
  2. St Sava Serbian Orthodox Church Listed historic place
    1,270 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Madison Square Post Office Listed historic place
    1,310 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    620 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    890 feet
  3. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,020 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Morton Williams Supermarket
    840 feet
  2. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    1,250 feet
  3. Fairway Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    570 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    730 feet
  3. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 140 places to eat and nine food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 23rd Street or Madison 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.