Madison Avenue & East 69th Street

Madison Avenue and East 69th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, Manhattan. The corner is also named Janice Caulter Way by local law. It lies inside 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. Americas Society Art Gallery is 460 feet away. The nearest subway, 68 St-Hunter College, is about five minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are 26 public places and 25 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
68 St-Hunter College
1,200 feet · 5 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Madison Av/E 69 St · M72
Within a walk
26 places
5 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Madison Avenue & East 69th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 68 St-Hunter College, 1,200 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 68 St-Hunter College 6
    1,200 feet
    6

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 72 St Q
    0.4 miles
    Q
  2. Lexington Av/63 St M, Q
    0.5 miles
    M 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 Madison Av/E 69 St, 110 feet away, for the M72.

  • 22 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Madison Av/E 69 St M72 · Countdown sign
    110 feet
    M72
    Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. M72 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 27 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 70 St & Madison Ave 44 docks in all
    320 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
    1.9 miles
  2. 301 East 79th Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1,100 feet
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2019

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
79 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Janice Caulter Way, a co-naming enacted on May 5, 2004 (Local Law 8 of 2004).

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,900 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 1923 and 1949.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 37 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules
  • 6 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

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

North side of East 69th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY CONSUL-C DIPLOMAT-A & D LICENSE PLATES D/S DECALS ONLY
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of East 69th Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of Madison Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-4PM SATURDAY 9AM-7PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

West side of Madison Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 101537, 102862, 106057 and 106436.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Upper East Side Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 243 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-French Classic, and mostly built between 1880 and 1922.

  1. Hotel Westbury Designated landmark
    160 feet
  2. Frick Art Reference Library Designated landmark
    470 feet
  3. The Union Club of New York Designated landmark
    680 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Central Park.

  1. Richard Morris Hunt Memorial Bust by Daniel Chester French, 1898
    690 feet
  2. One Hundred Seventh Infantry Memorial Statue by Karl Morningstar Illava, 1927
    770 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 public places.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 listed historic places
  • 3 park features
  • 2 arts or cultural centers
  • 8 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Episcopal School in the City of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    290 feet
  2. The Children's Learning Center at Hunter College Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    590 feet
  3. Dominican Academy School
    620 feet
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  1. CUNY Hunter College
    860 feet
  2. Emanuel Congregation of the City of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,110 feet
  3. The Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Central Park Listed historic place
    560 feet
  2. East Green in Central Park Park feature
    830 feet
  3. Billy Johnson Playground
    970 feet
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  1. Dene in Central Park Park feature
    1,080 feet
  2. East 72nd Street Playground
    1,110 feet
  3. Wallach Walk in Central Park Park feature
    1,250 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 733 Park Avenue Public space
    1,060 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Upper East Side Historic District Listed historic place
    400 feet
  2. Frick Collection Museum
    510 feet
  3. Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo Mansion Listed historic place
    770 feet
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  1. Asia Society Museum · landmark
    780 feet
  2. Building at 45 East 66th Street Listed historic place
    790 feet
  3. Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House Listed historic place
    1,250 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

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

Houses of worship

  1. St James Church Landmark
    620 feet
  2. Madison Ave Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,170 feet
  3. Temple Emanuel House of worship
    1,210 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 places to eat.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 69th Street or Madison Avenue.

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