Park Avenue & East 90th Street

Park Avenue and East 90th 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, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The sculpture “Night Presence IV” is 570 feet away, and Fred Lebow Statue in Central Park is 1,190 feet away. The nearest subway, 86 St, is about six minutes on foot, for the 4, 5 and 6. Within a five-minute walk are 44 public places and 41 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
86 St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 4, 5, 6
Nearest bus stop
780 feet
Madison Av/E 89 St · M1, M2, M3, M4
Within a walk
44 places
9 listed historic places, 9 schools and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Park Avenue & East 90th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 86 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. 86 St 4, 5, 6
    0.3 miles
    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. 96 St 6
    0.4 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 Madison Av/E 89 St, 780 feet away, for the M1, M2, M3 and M4.

  • 23 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Madison Av/E 89 St M1, M2, M3, M4
    780 feet
    M1 M2 M3 M4

Next buses at this stop

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

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on East 90th Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 91 St & Park Ave 35 docks in all
    400 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. 245 East 90th Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported three 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 May 2022.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2017

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
99 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 4,900 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 1924 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 99 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 28 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2019 and March 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 90th Street

  • Loading only 2 signs LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of East 90th Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of Park Avenue

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

West side of Park Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Park Avenue Historic District.

Within 820 feet are six Individual Landmarks, and 191 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec. They were mostly built between 1886 and 1924.

  1. Brick Presbyterian Church School and Parish House Designated landmark
    500 feet
  2. Hotel Graham Designated landmark
    720 feet
  3. Hotel Chastaignary Designated landmark
    750 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Park Avenue Malls.

  1. Night Presence IV Sculpture by Louise Nevelson, 1973
    570 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 44 public places.

  • 9 listed historic places
  • 9 schools
  • 8 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 5 public spaces
  • 8 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Horace Mann School Nursery-Kinderga School · landmark
    390 feet
  2. St. Thomas Moore Play Group Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    580 feet
  3. Dalton School
    620 feet
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  1. The Brick Presbyterian Church in the City of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    840 feet
  2. Spence School Landmark
    870 feet
  3. P.S. M169 - Robert F. Kennedy School
    920 feet
  4. The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    930 feet
  5. St Davids School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    960 feet
  6. Park Avenue Synagogue Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,010 feet
  7. Nightingale Bamford School
    1,130 feet
  8. Spence School at 93rd School
    1,220 feet
  9. Convent of the Sacred Heart School
    1,250 feet
  10. Hunter College Campus Schools School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Central Park Listed historic place
    1,100 feet
  2. Fred Lebow Statue in Central Park Park feature
    1,190 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 45 East 89th Street Public space
    460 feet
  2. Public space at Park Regis Public space
    650 feet
  3. Public space at Carlton Park Public space
    820 feet
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  1. Public space at Carnegie Towers Public space
    920 feet
  2. Public space at 200 East 90th Street Public space
    1,180 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Apartment at 1261 Madison Avenue Listed historic place
    520 feet
  2. Park Avenue Historic District Listed historic place
    540 feet
  3. Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
    940 feet
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  1. Houses at 120 and 122 East 92nd Street Listed historic place
    740 feet
  2. George F. Baker Jr. and Sr. Residences Listed historic place
    950 feet
  3. Houses at 146-156 East 89th Street Listed historic place
    960 feet
  4. Andrew Carnegie Mansion Listed historic place
    990 feet
  5. Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt House Listed historic place
    1,000 feet
  6. James A. Jr. Burden House and Kahn, Otto H. House Listed historic place
    1,220 feet
  7. William Goadby Loew House Listed historic place
    1,220 feet
  8. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Listed historic place
    1,300 feet
  9. Jewish Museum Listed historic place
    1,300 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Kaufman Concert Hall Theater or concert hall
    900 feet
  2. 92 St YM-YWHA Arts or cultural center
    910 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Brick Presbyterian Church Landmark
    350 feet
  2. St Thomas More Church House of worship
    390 feet
  3. Advent Hope Church House of worship
    790 feet
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  1. Beloved Disciple Chapel Listed historic place
    790 feet
  2. Immanuel Lutheran Church House of worship
    800 feet
  3. Park Ave Synagogue House of worship
    1,010 feet
  4. Park Ave Methodist Church House of worship
    1,170 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Yorkville Post Office
    1,240 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    800 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    970 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    770 feet
  2. Westside Market Supermarket
    1,130 feet
  3. Morton Williams Supermarket
    1,250 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,270 feet
  2. Duane Reade 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 41 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 90th Street or Park Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, 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.