Madison Avenue & East 95th Street

Madison Avenue and East 95th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, Manhattan. The corner lies on the edge of the Expanded Carnegie Hill Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Ramakrishna Vivekananda Center is 280 feet away, and Samuel Seabury Playground is 1,070 feet away. The nearest subway, 96 St, is about five minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are 33 public places, nine of them schools, and 29 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
96 St
1,240 feet · 5 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
190 feet
Madison Av/E 95 St · M1, M2, M3, M4
Within a walk
33 places
9 schools, 8 religious buildings and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Madison Avenue & East 95th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 96 St, 1,240 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 96 St 6
    1,240 feet
    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
    0.4 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 95 St, 190 feet away, for the M1, M2, M3 and M4.

  • 20 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Madison Av/E 95 St M1, M2, M3, M4 · Shelter
    190 feet
    M1 M2 M3 M4
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

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

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive northbound at East 96th Street, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1599 Lexington Avenue Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 1425 Madison Avenue Charging for electric cars, 32 Level 2 chargers
    1,140 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 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
5 and 8 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
19
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill
Elevation
92 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,900 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 1920 and 1930.

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
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 10 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 95th Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of East 95th Street

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

East side of Madison Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

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: 113951 and 114882.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Expanded Carnegie Hill Historic District.

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 177 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1890 and 1923.

  1. Squadron "A" Armory Designated landmark
    150 feet
  2. Lycee Francais de New-York Designated landmark
    290 feet
  3. Garage Wing Designated landmark
    540 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 33 public places.

  • 9 schools
  • 8 religious buildings
  • 5 listed historic places
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Playgarden Madison Prep Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    140 feet
  2. La Scuola D'Italia-G Marconi School
    410 feet
  3. Hunter College Campus Schools School
    450 feet
Show all 13
  1. Manhattan Country School
    670 feet
  2. Sephardic Academy-Manhattan School
    670 feet
  3. Spence School at 93rd School
    690 feet
  4. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    810 feet
  5. Nightingale Bamford School
    970 feet
  6. The Brick Presbyterian Church in the City of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    990 feet
  7. St Bernard's School
    1,030 feet
  8. Dalton School
    1,150 feet
  9. Spence School
    1,230 feet
  10. St. Bernard's Kindergarten School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Central Park Listed historic place
    570 feet
  2. Margaret L. Kempner Playground
    630 feet
  3. Samuel Seabury Playground
    1,070 feet
Show all 4
  1. East Meadow in Central Park Park feature
    1,100 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Carnegie Hill Tower Public space
    390 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lucy Drexel Dahlgren Residence Listed historic place
    560 feet
  2. William Goadby Loew House Listed historic place
    690 feet
  3. Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt House Listed historic place
    820 feet
Show all 7
  1. George F. Baker Jr. and Sr. Residences Listed historic place
    960 feet
  2. 96th Street Library
    990 feet
  3. Jewish Museum Listed historic place
    990 feet
  4. Apartment at 1261 Madison Avenue Listed historic place
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ramakrishna Vivekananda Center House of worship
    280 feet
  2. St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church Landmark
    660 feet
  3. St Francis de Sales RC Church House of worship
    1,150 feet
Show all 5
  1. Orach Chaim Congregation House of worship
    1,160 feet
  2. Brick Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,230 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    740 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,020 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    1,290 feet
  2. Westside Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.4 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 nine food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 95th 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 Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.