Madison Avenue & East 93rd Street

Madison Avenue and East 93rd 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. In 2025, 220 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Hotel Ashton stands 110 feet away, and Dalton School is 630 feet away. The nearest subway, 96 St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are 37 public places and 36 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
96 St
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
190 feet
Madison Av/E 93 St · M1, M2, M3, M4
Within a walk
37 places
11 schools, 9 listed historic places and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Madison Avenue & East 93rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 96 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 96 St 6
    0.3 miles
    6

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 96 St Q
    0.5 miles
    Q

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 93 St, 190 feet away, for the M1, M2, M3 and M4.

  • 18 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Madison Av/E 93 St M1, M2, M3, M4
    190 feet
    M1 M2 M3 M4

Next buses at this stop

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

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive northbound at East 96th Street, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1855 1st Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 60 East 94th Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    420 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.

  • 2 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 February 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2019

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 220 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,592nd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
106 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,000 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 1906 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 84 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2020 and April 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 93rd Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of East 93rd Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-5PM

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: 112834 and 114240.

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 242 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1889 and 1924.

  1. Hotel Ashton Designated landmark
    110 feet
  2. Hotel Chastaignary Designated landmark
    190 feet
  3. Garage Wing 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
    550 feet
  2. William T. Stead Memorial Stele by George William Frampton, 1920
    770 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

  • 11 schools
  • 9 listed historic places
  • 8 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 museums
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Spence School at 93rd School
    170 feet
  2. Nightingale Bamford School Landmark
    450 feet
  3. The Brick Presbyterian Church in the City of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    470 feet
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  1. Dalton School
    630 feet
  2. Playgarden Madison Prep Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    660 feet
  3. Spence School
    710 feet
  4. Hunter College Campus Schools School
    710 feet
  5. Convent of the Sacred Heart School
    830 feet
  6. La Scuola D'Italia-G Marconi School
    930 feet
  7. Horace Mann School Nursery-Kinderga School
    1,040 feet
  8. Manhattan Country School
    1,190 feet
  9. Sephardic Academy-Manhattan School
    1,190 feet
  10. St Davids School
    1,230 feet
  11. St. Thomas Moore Play Group Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Central Park Listed historic place
    560 feet
  2. Margaret L. Kempner Playground
    1,150 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Carnegie Hill Tower Public space
    260 feet
  2. Public space at 45 East 89th Street Public space
    970 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. William Goadby Loew House Listed historic place
    170 feet
  2. Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt House Listed historic place
    300 feet
  3. George F. Baker Jr. and Sr. Residences Listed historic place
    440 feet
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  1. Madison Avenue Facade of the Squadron a Armory Listed historic place
    450 feet
  2. Jewish Museum Listed historic place
    470 feet
  3. Apartment at 1261 Madison Avenue Listed historic place
    770 feet
  4. James A. Jr. Burden House and Kahn, Otto H. House Listed historic place
    800 feet
  5. Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
    920 feet
  6. Andrew Carnegie Mansion Listed historic place
    1,000 feet
  7. Lucy Drexel Dahlgren Residence Listed historic place
    1,090 feet
  8. Houses at 120 and 122 East 92nd Street Listed historic place
    1,140 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ramakrishna Vivekananda Center House of worship
    360 feet
  2. Brick Presbyterian Church House of worship
    710 feet
  3. Beloved Disciple Chapel Listed historic place
    940 feet
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  1. St Thomas More Church House of worship
    1,050 feet
  2. St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church House of worship
    1,180 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    220 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    500 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Westside Market Supermarket
    1,260 feet
  2. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 36 places to eat and six food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 93rd Street or Madison Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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.