Park Avenue & East 91st Street

Park Avenue and East 91st 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, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Brick Presbyterian Church School and Parish House stands 280 feet away, and Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum is 910 feet away. The nearest subway, 86 St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 4, 5 and 6. Within a five-minute walk are 39 public places and 36 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
86 St
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 4, 5, 6
Nearest bus stop
590 feet
Lexington Av/E 92 St · M101, M102, M103
Within a walk
39 places
9 listed historic places, 9 schools and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Park Avenue & East 91st 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 seven minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  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
    0.3 miles
    6
  2. 96 St Q
    0.5 miles
    Q

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 92 St, 590 feet away, for the M101, M102 and M103.

  • 23 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lexington Av/E 92 St M101, M102, M103
    590 feet
    M101 M102 M103

Next buses at this stop

  1. M101 …
  2. M102 …
  3. M103 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on East 91st Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 91 St & Park Ave 35 docks in all
    130 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
    0.8 miles
  2. 60 East 94th Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles

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.

  • 1 person injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

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 and 5 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
19
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill
Elevation
102 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 4,700 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 1923 and 1941.

Trees

NYC Parks records 105 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2016 and July 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 91st Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-5PM

South side of East 91st Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 110705.

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 is one Individual Landmark, and 219 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival and neo-Grec. They were mostly built between 1886 and 1924.

  1. Brick Presbyterian Church School and Parish House Designated landmark
    280 feet
  2. Hotel Chastaignary Designated landmark
    560 feet
  3. Garage Wing Designated landmark
    640 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
    310 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 39 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Dalton School
    410 feet
  2. The Brick Presbyterian Church in the City of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    580 feet
  3. Horace Mann School Nursery-Kinderga School · landmark
    650 feet
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  1. The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    670 feet
  2. Spence School
    700 feet
  3. St. Thomas Moore Play Group Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    840 feet
  4. Nightingale Bamford School Landmark
    870 feet
  5. Spence School at 93rd School
    960 feet
  6. Convent of the Sacred Heart School
    990 feet
  7. Hunter College Campus Schools School
    1,020 feet
  8. P.S. M169 - Robert F. Kennedy School
    1,180 feet
  9. St Davids School
    1,220 feet
  10. Park Avenue Synagogue Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Central Park Listed historic place
    1,070 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 45 East 89th Street Public space
    720 feet
  2. Public space at Park Regis Public space
    910 feet
  3. Public space at Carlton Park Public space
    1,080 feet
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  1. Public space at Carnegie Towers Public space
    1,180 feet
  2. Public space at Carnegie Hill Tower Public space
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Houses at 120 and 122 East 92nd Street Listed historic place
    480 feet
  2. George F. Baker Jr. and Sr. Residences Listed historic place
    700 feet
  3. Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt House Listed historic place
    740 feet
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  1. Apartment at 1261 Madison Avenue Listed historic place
    760 feet
  2. Park Avenue Historic District Listed historic place
    810 feet
  3. Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
    910 feet
  4. James A. Jr. Burden House and Kahn, Otto H. House Listed historic place
    950 feet
  5. William Goadby Loew House Listed historic place
    960 feet
  6. Andrew Carnegie Mansion Listed historic place
    990 feet
  7. Jewish Museum Listed historic place
    1,040 feet
  8. Houses at 146-156 East 89th Street Listed historic place
    1,220 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

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

Houses of worship

  1. Brick Presbyterian Church Landmark
    130 feet
  2. St Thomas More Church House of worship
    650 feet
  3. Beloved Disciple Chapel Listed historic place
    940 feet
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  1. Advent Hope Church House of worship
    1,050 feet
  2. Immanuel Lutheran Church House of worship
    1,060 feet
  3. Park Ave Synagogue House of worship
    1,270 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Yorkville Post Office
    1,160 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    530 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    810 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Westside Market Supermarket
    860 feet
  2. Gristedes Supermarket
    1,030 feet
  3. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,000 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 36 places to eat and 13 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 91st 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.