Park Avenue & East 68th Street

Park Avenue and East 68th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, Manhattan. The corner is also named Dorothy Kilgallen Way by local law. It lies inside the Upper East Side Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Manhattan corner. In 2025, 4,344 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Americas Society Art Gallery is 110 feet away. The nearest subway, 68 St-Hunter College, is about two minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are 31 public places and 36 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
68 St-Hunter College
450 feet · 2 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
550 feet
Lexington Av/E 68 St · M98
Within a walk
31 places
7 listed historic places, 6 religious buildings and 10 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Park Avenue & East 68th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 68 St-Hunter College, 450 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 8 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 68 St-Hunter College 6
    450 feet
    6

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Lexington Av/63 St M, Q
    0.3 miles
    M Q
  2. 72 St Q
    0.4 miles
    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 Lexington Av/E 68 St, 550 feet away, for the M98.

  • 24 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lexington Av/E 68 St M98
    550 feet
    M98

Next buses at this stop

  1. M98 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 46 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 67 St & Park Ave 44 docks in all
    340 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Queensboro Bridge at Queensboro Bridge & 2nd Avenue at East 59th Street, 0.8 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
    460 feet
  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 ten crashes at this corner, the median for a Manhattan corner.

  • 2 people 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, April 2017

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 4,344 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 191st most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 1,864 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10065
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 8
City Council district
4
Police precinct
19
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill
Elevation
76 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Dorothy Kilgallen Way, a co-naming enacted on July 20, 2024 (Local Law 81 of 2024).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 78 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

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

North side of East 68th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of East 68th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Park Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Park Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY CONSUL-C DIPLOMAT-A & D LICENSE PLATES D/S DECALS ONLY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Upper East Side Historic District.

Within 820 feet are five Individual Landmarks, and 288 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Federal. They were mostly built between 1877 and 1915.

  1. The Union Club of New York Designated landmark
    390 feet
  2. Park Avenue Armory Designated landmark
    480 feet
  3. Cosmopolitan Club Designated landmark
    700 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 31 public places.

  • 7 listed historic places
  • 6 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 2 arts or cultural centers
  • 9 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Children's Learning Center at Hunter College Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · landmark
    180 feet
  2. Dominican Academy School
    310 feet
  3. CUNY Hunter College Landmark
    360 feet
Show all 9
  1. The Episcopal School in the City of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    480 feet
  2. Park East Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    850 feet
  3. Rabbi Arthur Schneier Park East Day School
    860 feet
  4. Diki Harmony Play House Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,070 feet
  5. Manhattan High School for Girls School
    1,090 feet
  6. NY School of Interior Design College
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Central Park Listed historic place
    1,090 feet
  2. Billy Johnson Playground
    1,230 feet

Plazas and public spaces

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

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Asia Society Museum · landmark
    610 feet
  2. Upper East Side Historic District Listed historic place
    610 feet
  3. Upper East Side Historic District (Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation) Listed historic place
    650 feet
Show all 9
  1. Mount Sinai Dispensary Listed historic place
    770 feet
  2. Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House Listed historic place
    930 feet
  3. East 66th St., 131-135, East 67th St., 130-134, Apt. Bldgs. At Listed historic place
    940 feet
  4. Building at 45 East 66th Street Listed historic place
    1,030 feet
  5. Building at 210 East 68th Street Listed historic place
    1,190 feet
  6. Frick Collection Museum
    1,280 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

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

Houses of worship

  1. Park East Synagogue Listed historic place
    900 feet
  2. St Vincents Ferrer Church Listed historic place
    1,030 feet
  3. St James Church House of worship
    1,060 feet
Show all 5
  1. Central Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,130 feet
  2. Third Church of Christ Scientist House of worship
    1,230 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 39/Ladder 16 Fire station
    880 feet
  2. 19th Precinct Police station
    880 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    770 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 36 places to eat and one food store.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 68th Street or Park 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, NYC Records, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.