Madison Avenue & East 92nd Street

Madison Avenue and East 92nd Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, Manhattan. The corner lies inside the Expanded Carnegie Hill Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Hotel Chastaignary stands 120 feet away, and Nightingale Bamford School is 190 feet away. The nearest subway, 96 St, is about eight minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 39 public places, nine of them schools, and 29 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
96 St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Madison Av/E 91 St · M1, M2, M3, M4
Within a walk
39 places
9 schools, 8 listed historic places and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Madison Avenue & East 92nd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 96 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 96 St 6
    0.4 miles
    6

Next trains at this station

The Bronx
1 line
  1. 6 …
Downtown
1 line
  1. 6 …

Also within a walk

  1. 86 St 4, 5, 6
    0.5 miles
    4 5 6

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “City Suite” (1994) by Laura Bradley at the 96 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Madison Av/E 91 St, 120 feet away, for the M1, M2, M3 and M4.

  • 18 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Madison Av/E 91 St M1, M2, M3, M4 · Countdown sign
    120 feet
    M1 M2 M3 M4
    Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. M1 …
  2. M2 …
  3. M3 …
  4. M4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 45 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 94 St & Madison Ave 43 docks in all
    610 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at York Avenue & East 92nd Street, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1855 1st Avenue Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 60 East 94th Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    690 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10128
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 8
City Council district
4 and 5 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
19
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill
Elevation
107 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,800 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 1924 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 81 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 38 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2017 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 92nd Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of East 92nd Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of Madison Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM

West side of Madison Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-9AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 114240 and 114675.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Expanded Carnegie Hill Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 241 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1889 and 1925.

  1. Hotel Chastaignary Designated landmark
    120 feet
  2. Hotel Ashton Designated landmark
    190 feet
  3. Brick Presbyterian Church School and Parish House Designated landmark
    320 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Night Presence IV Sculpture by Louise Nevelson, 1973
    510 feet
  2. William T. Stead Memorial Stele by George William Frampton, 1920
    620 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 39 public places.

  • 9 schools
  • 8 listed historic places
  • 7 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 museums
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Nightingale Bamford School Landmark
    190 feet
  2. The Brick Presbyterian Church in the City of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    200 feet
  3. Spence School at 93rd School
    330 feet
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  1. Dalton School
    360 feet
  2. Spence School Landmark
    450 feet
  3. Convent of the Sacred Heart School
    570 feet
  4. Horace Mann School Nursery-Kinderga School
    780 feet
  5. Playgarden Madison Prep Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    930 feet
  6. St Davids School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    970 feet
  7. Hunter College Campus Schools School
    970 feet
  8. St. Thomas Moore Play Group Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    980 feet
  9. The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,130 feet
  10. La Scuola D'Italia-G Marconi School
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Central Park Listed historic place
    570 feet
  2. Fred Lebow Statue in Central Park Park feature
    1,150 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Carnegie Hill Tower Public space
    520 feet
  2. Public space at 45 East 89th Street Public space
    710 feet
  3. Public space at Park Regis Public space
    1,080 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. William Goadby Loew House Listed historic place
    340 feet
  2. Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt House Listed historic place
    410 feet
  3. Jewish Museum Listed historic place
    430 feet
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  1. Apartment at 1261 Madison Avenue Listed historic place
    510 feet
  2. James A. Jr. Burden House and Kahn, Otto H. House Listed historic place
    540 feet
  3. Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
    660 feet
  4. George F. Baker Jr. and Sr. Residences Listed historic place
    700 feet
  5. Madison Avenue Facade of the Squadron a Armory Listed historic place
    710 feet
  6. Andrew Carnegie Mansion Listed historic place
    740 feet
  7. Houses at 120 and 122 East 92nd Street Listed historic place
    880 feet
  8. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Listed historic place
    1,310 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. 92 St YM-YWHA Arts or cultural center
    1,130 feet
  2. Kaufman Concert Hall Theater or concert hall
    1,140 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Brick Presbyterian Church Landmark
    450 feet
  2. Ramakrishna Vivekananda Center House of worship
    620 feet
  3. Beloved Disciple Chapel Listed historic place
    680 feet
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  1. St Thomas More Church House of worship
    790 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    100 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Westside Market Supermarket
    1,110 feet
  2. Morton Williams Supermarket
    1,270 feet
  3. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 places to eat and eight food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 92nd 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.