Queens Midtown Tunnel & East 41st Street

Queens Midtown Tunnel and East 41st Street meet at a four-way crossing in Murray Hill-Kips Bay, Manhattan. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Ralph Bunche Park is 540 feet away, and Ford Foundation Building stands 780 feet away. The nearest subway, Grand Central-42 St, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 4, 5, 6, 7 and S. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, three of them parks, and five places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Central-42 St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 4, 5, 6, 7, S
Nearest bus stop
20 feet
E 41 St/1 Av · M42
Within a walk
16 places
4 public spaces, 3 parks and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Queens Midtown Tunnel & East 41st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Central-42 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines at the nearest station
  1. Grand Central-42 St 4, 5, 6, 7, S
    0.4 miles
    4 5 6 7 S

Next trains at this station

Uptown
3 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. 5 …
  3. 6 …
Downtown
3 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. 5 …
  3. 6 …
Queens
1 line
  1. 7 …
Hudson Yards
1 line
  1. 7 …
Times Square
1 line
  1. S …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists five works at the Grand Central-42 St station, among them “Fast Track and Speedwheels” (1990) by Dan Sinclair and “Grand Central: Arches, Towers, Pyramids” (2000) by Jackie Ferrara.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 41 St/1 Av, 20 feet away, for the M42.

  • 23 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 41 St/1 Av M42 · Shelter
    20 feet
    M42
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M42 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 1 Ave & E 42 St 62 docks in all
    460 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive northbound at 1st Avenue, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 466 10th Avenue Gas station
    2.1 miles
  2. 449 East 49th Street Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2016.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10017
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 6
City Council district
4
Police precinct
17
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Murray Hill-Kips Bay

The streets

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

Homes

About 4,500 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 1929 and 1963.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 20 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Tudor Revival. They were mostly built between 1911 and 1929.

  1. Ford Foundation Building Designated landmark
    780 feet
  2. Hotel Tudor Designated landmark
    790 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Trygve Lie Plaza.

  1. Peace Clock Kinetic sculpture by Lina Viste Gronli, 2016
    330 feet
  2. The Isaiah Wall Memorial wall, 1948
    630 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 public spaces
  • 3 parks
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Vivvi 11 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    860 feet
  2. The Goddard School Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Robert Moses Playground
    50 feet
  2. Trygve Lie Plaza
    260 feet
  3. East River Esplanade Park
    420 feet
Show all 6
  1. Ralph Bunche Park
    540 feet
  2. Mary O'Connor Playground
    800 feet
  3. Tudor Grove Playground
    820 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at East River Realty North Public space
    670 feet
  2. Public space at Churchill Public space
    1,070 feet
  3. Public space at New York Tower Public space
    1,140 feet
Show all 4
  1. Public space at Unicef House Public space
    1,150 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Peace Form One Sculpture Monument or memorial
    710 feet
  2. Tudor City Historic District Listed historic place
    810 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Church of the Covenant Landmark
    1,030 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    1,170 feet
  2. D'Agostino Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 41st Street or Queens Midtown Tunnel.

Sources: NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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 Technology and Innovation, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.