Park Avenue & East 94th Street

Park Avenue and East 94th 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. Hunter College Campus Schools is 240 feet away, and Central Park is 1,070 feet away. The nearest subway, 96 St, is about four minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are 35 public places, eight of them schools, and 37 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
96 St
990 feet · 4 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
580 feet
Lexington Av/E 94 St · M101, M102, M103
Within a walk
35 places
8 schools, 7 day care or pre-K sites and 10 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Park Avenue & East 94th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 96 St, 990 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 96 St 6
    990 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
    0.3 miles
    Q
  2. 86 St 4, 5, 6
    0.5 miles
    4 5 6

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “City Suite” (1994) by Laura Bradley at the 96 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lexington Av/E 94 St, 580 feet away, for the M101, M102 and M103.

  • 20 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lexington Av/E 94 St M101, M102, M103 · Countdown sign
    580 feet
    M101 M102 M103
    Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. M101 …
  2. M102 …
  3. M103 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive northbound at East 96th Street, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1855 1st Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 182 East 95th Street Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    1,160 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
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, December 2015

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10128
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 8
City Council district
5
Police precinct
19
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill
Elevation
112 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 4,100 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 1920 and 1933.

Trees

NYC Parks records 93 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
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2020 and October 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 94th Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO BOARD OF HIGHER EDUCATION SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of East 94th Street

  • Loading only 2 signs LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of Park Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Park Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 246 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec. They were mostly built between 1886 and 1901.

  1. Garage Wing Designated landmark
    260 feet
  2. Squadron "A" Armory Designated landmark
    480 feet
  3. Hotel Chastaignary Designated landmark
    610 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
    480 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 35 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Hunter College Campus Schools School
    240 feet
  2. Spence School at 93rd School
    700 feet
  3. The Brick Presbyterian Church in the City of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    840 feet
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  1. Playgarden Madison Prep Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    910 feet
  2. Dalton School
    1,040 feet
  3. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,080 feet
  4. The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,140 feet
  5. La Scuola D'Italia-G Marconi School
    1,180 feet
  6. Nightingale Bamford School
    1,220 feet
  7. Cathedral High School
    1,250 feet
  8. Lexington Children's Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,260 feet
  9. District 2 Pre-K Center at 1683 Third Avenue Pre-K center
    1,270 feet
  10. P.S. 198 Isidor E. Ida Straus School
    1,270 feet
  11. P.S. 77 Lower Lab School
    1,270 feet
  12. Vivvi 12 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Samuel Seabury Playground
    820 feet
  2. Central Park Listed historic place
    1,070 feet
  3. Serenity Garden - Lexington Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    1,160 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Carnegie Hill Tower Public space
    510 feet
  2. Public space at Highgate Public space
    1,040 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. George F. Baker Jr. and Sr. Residences Listed historic place
    330 feet
  2. Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt House Listed historic place
    630 feet
  3. William Goadby Loew House Listed historic place
    700 feet
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  1. 96th Street Library
    740 feet
  2. Houses at 120 and 122 East 92nd Street Listed historic place
    890 feet
  3. Jewish Museum Listed historic place
    1,240 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. 92 St YM-YWHA Arts or cultural center
    1,120 feet
  2. Kaufman Concert Hall Theater or concert hall
    1,140 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Orach Chaim Congregation House of worship
    660 feet
  2. Ramakrishna Vivekananda Center House of worship
    700 feet
  3. Brick Presbyterian Church Landmark
    740 feet
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  1. St Francis de Sales RC Church House of worship
    900 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    990 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Westside Market Supermarket
    1,010 feet
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    1,040 feet
  3. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 37 places to eat and 12 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 94th Street or Park 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 Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.