Madison Avenue & East 71st Street

Madison Avenue and East 71st Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, Manhattan. The corner lies inside the Upper East Side Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. St James Church is 130 feet away. The nearest subway, 68 St-Hunter College, is about seven minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, four of them listed historic places, and 29 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
68 St-Hunter College
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
30 feet
Madison Av/71 St · BxM6, BxM7, BxM8, BxM9 +1
Within a walk
19 places
4 listed historic places, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Madison Avenue & East 71st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 68 St-Hunter College, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 68 St-Hunter College 6
    0.3 miles
    6

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 72 St Q
    0.5 miles
    Q
  2. 77 St 6
    0.5 miles
    6

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/71 St, 30 feet away, for the BxM6, BxM7, BxM8, BxM9 and BxM10.

  • 22 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Madison Av/71 St BxM6, BxM7, BxM8, BxM9 +1
    30 feet
    BxM6 BxM7 BxM8 BxM9 BxM10

Next buses at this stop

  1. BxM6 …
  2. BxM7 …
  3. BxM8 …
  4. BxM9 …
  5. BxM10 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on East 71st Street.

  • 21 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 70 St & Madison Ave 44 docks in all
    310 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at East 70th Street, 1 mile 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 two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2023.

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
78 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,100 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 1922 and 1948.

Trees

NYC Parks records 74 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2018 and June 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 71st Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of East 71st Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of Madison Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-4PM SATURDAY 9AM-7PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-10AM 4PM-7PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 10AM-4PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of Madison Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 110490, 110491, 111456 and 111475.

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, 237 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Renaissance, and mostly built between 1881 and 1924.

  1. Frick Art Reference Library Designated landmark
    220 feet
  2. Hotel Westbury Designated landmark
    390 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Richard Morris Hunt Memorial Bust by Daniel Chester French, 1898
    560 feet
  2. Samuel Finley Breese Morse Statue by Byron M. Pickett, 1871
    660 feet
  3. Waldo Hutchins Memorial Exedra by Paul Howard Manship and Corrado Howard, 1932
    710 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. The Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · landmark
    680 feet
  2. The Episcopal School in the City of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    810 feet
  3. The Children's Learning Center at Hunter College Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,110 feet
Show all 4
  1. Dominican Academy School
    1,140 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Central Park Listed historic place
    560 feet
  2. East 72nd Street Playground
    590 feet
  3. East Green in Central Park Park feature
    920 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 733 Park Avenue Public space
    640 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo Mansion Listed historic place
    250 feet
  2. Frick Collection Museum
    370 feet
  3. Upper East Side Historic District Listed historic place
    600 feet
Show all 6
  1. Asia Society Museum · landmark
    710 feet
  2. Whitney Museum of American Art Listed historic place
    1,120 feet
  3. Building at 45 East 66th Street Listed historic place
    1,310 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Americas Society Art Gallery Arts or cultural center
    980 feet
  2. Italian Cultural Institute Arts or cultural center · listed historic place
    1,040 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St James Church Landmark
    130 feet
  2. Madison Ave Presbyterian Church Landmark
    650 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    410 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles
  3. CVS 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 29 places to eat and two food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 71st 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.