Park Avenue & East 95th Street

Park Avenue and East 95th 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, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Garage Wing stands 480 feet away, and Lycee Francais de New-York stands 800 feet away. The nearest subway, 96 St, is about three minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are 37 public places, nine of them schools, and 41 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
96 St
730 feet · 3 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
590 feet
Lexington Av/E 96 St · M98, M101, M102, M103 +1
Within a walk
37 places
9 schools, 8 religious buildings and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Park Avenue & East 95th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 96 St, 730 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 96 St 6
    730 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

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 96 St, 590 feet away, for the M98, M101, M102, M103 and BxM1.

  • 20 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lexington Av/E 96 St M98, M101, M102, M103 +1
    590 feet
    M98 M101 M102 M103 BxM1

Next buses at this stop

  1. M98 …
  2. M101 …
  3. M102 …
  4. M103 …
  5. BxM1 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 54 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
    700 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive northbound at East 96th Street, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1855 1st Avenue Gas station
    0.6 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 six crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2023.

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
101 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.

Trees

NYC Parks records 93 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2020 and September 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 95th Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of East 95th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of Park Avenue

  • No parking 6 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 160 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1887 and 1906.

  1. Garage Wing Designated landmark
    480 feet
  2. Squadron "A" Armory Designated landmark
    490 feet
  3. Lycee Francais de New-York Designated landmark
    800 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
    740 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 37 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Hunter College Campus Schools School
    320 feet
  2. Playgarden Madison Prep Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    650 feet
  3. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    820 feet
Show all 15
  1. La Scuola D'Italia-G Marconi School
    920 feet
  2. Spence School at 93rd School
    960 feet
  3. Cathedral High School
    990 feet
  4. Lexington Children's Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,000 feet
  5. P.S. 198 Isidor E. Ida Straus School
    1,010 feet
  6. P.S. 77 Lower Lab School
    1,010 feet
  7. Vivvi 12 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,040 feet
  8. The Brick Presbyterian Church in the City of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,100 feet
  9. Manhattan Country School
    1,180 feet
  10. Sephardic Academy-Manhattan School
    1,180 feet
  11. District 2 Pre-K Center at 1683 Third Avenue Pre-K center
    1,230 feet
  12. Dalton School
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Samuel Seabury Playground
    550 feet
  2. Serenity Garden - Lexington Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    900 feet
  3. Central Park Listed historic place
    1,080 feet
Show all 4
  1. Margaret L. Kempner Playground
    1,140 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Carnegie Hill Tower Public space
    770 feet
  2. Public space at Highgate Public space
    1,040 feet
  3. Public space at Normandie Court Public space
    1,290 feet
Show all 4
  1. Public space at Monterey Public space
    1,310 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. 96th Street Library
    480 feet
  2. George F. Baker Jr. and Sr. Residences Listed historic place
    590 feet
  3. Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt House Listed historic place
    890 feet
Show all 6
  1. William Goadby Loew House Listed historic place
    960 feet
  2. Lucy Drexel Dahlgren Residence Listed historic place
    1,070 feet
  3. Houses at 120 and 122 East 92nd Street Listed historic place
    1,150 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Francis de Sales RC Church House of worship
    640 feet
  2. Orach Chaim Congregation House of worship
    650 feet
  3. Ramakrishna Vivekananda Center House of worship
    780 feet
Show all 5
  1. Brick Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,000 feet
  2. St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church House of worship
    1,170 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,250 feet
  2. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    780 feet
  2. Westside Market Supermarket
    1,270 feet
  3. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,070 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 41 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 95th 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.