Park Avenue & East 88th Street

Park Avenue and East 88th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, Manhattan. The corner lies inside the Park Avenue Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. In 2025, 3,496 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Dalton School is 460 feet away. The nearest subway, 86 St, is about four minutes on foot, for the 4, 5 and 6. Within a five-minute walk are 33 public places and 39 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
86 St
990 feet · 4 min on foot · 4, 5, 6
Nearest bus stop
650 feet
Lexington Av/E 89 St · M101, M102, M103
Within a walk
33 places
7 public spaces, 7 religious buildings and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Park Avenue & East 88th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 86 St, 990 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 86 St 4, 5, 6
    990 feet
    4 5 6

Next trains at this station

Uptown
3 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. 5 …
  3. 6 …
Downtown
3 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. 5 …
  3. 6 …

Also within a walk

  1. 86 St Q
    0.4 miles
    Q
  2. 96 St 6
    0.5 miles
    6

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Happy City” (2004) by Peter Sis at the 86 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lexington Av/E 89 St, 650 feet away, for the M101, M102 and M103.

  • 22 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lexington Av/E 89 St M101, M102, M103 · Countdown sign
    650 feet
    M101 M102 M103
    Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. M101 …
  2. M102 …
  3. M103 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 88 St & Park Ave 12 docks in all
    80 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at York Avenue & East 92nd Street, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1855 1st Avenue Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 1065 Park Avenue Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1,250 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2017

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 3,496 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 245th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 2,044 more 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
Police precinct
19
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill
Elevation
93 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 6,100 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 1924 and 1963.

Trees

NYC Parks records 92 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2016 and February 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 88th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of East 88th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of Park Avenue

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

West side of Park Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Park Avenue Historic District.

Within 820 feet are six Individual Landmarks, and 81 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1887 and 1925.

  1. Hotel Graham Designated landmark
    660 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

  • 7 public spaces
  • 7 religious buildings
  • 7 schools
  • 6 listed historic places
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. M169 - Robert F. Kennedy School
    390 feet
  2. Dalton School
    460 feet
  3. Park Avenue Synagogue Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    490 feet
Show all 10
  1. St. Thomas Moore Play Group Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    580 feet
  2. St Davids School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    870 feet
  3. Horace Mann School Nursery-Kinderga School · landmark
    910 feet
  4. The Lower and Early Childhood Center School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,140 feet
  5. Ramaz Middle School
    1,170 feet
  6. Regis High School
    1,230 feet
  7. Ramaz Lower School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Central Park Listed historic place
    1,070 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Carlton Park Public space
    300 feet
  2. Public space at Carnegie Towers Public space
    390 feet
  3. Public space at Park Regis Public space
    480 feet
Show all 7
  1. Public space at 45 East 89th Street Public space
    770 feet
  2. Public space at 111 East 85th Street Public space
    930 feet
  3. Public space at Claridge House Public space
    1,240 feet
  4. Public space at Monarch Public space
    1,310 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Park Avenue Historic District Listed historic place
    20 feet
  2. Houses at 146-156 East 89th Street Listed historic place
    870 feet
  3. Lewis G. Morris House Listed historic place
    940 feet
Show all 7
  1. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Listed historic place
    1,040 feet
  2. 86th Street Subway Station (Dual System IRT) Listed historic place
    1,040 feet
  3. Apartment at 1261 Madison Avenue Listed historic place
    1,040 feet
  4. Houses at 120 and 122 East 92nd Street Listed historic place
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Advent Hope Church House of worship
    270 feet
  2. Immanuel Lutheran Church House of worship
    440 feet
  3. Park Ave Synagogue House of worship
    490 feet
Show all 7
  1. St Thomas More Church House of worship
    600 feet
  2. Park Ave Methodist Church House of worship
    650 feet
  3. Brick Presbyterian Church House of worship
    870 feet
  4. Beloved Disciple Chapel Listed historic place
    1,120 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    940 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,050 feet
  3. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,200 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Morton Williams Supermarket
    730 feet
  2. Gristedes Supermarket
    860 feet
  3. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    1,240 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    770 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    1,290 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 39 places to eat and 13 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 88th 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.