Queensboro Bridge & York Avenue

Queensboro Bridge and York Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, Manhattan. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Queensboro Oval is 50 feet away. The nearest subway, Roosevelt Island, is about eight minutes on foot, and seven subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, eight of them parks, and 31 places to eat. About 3,600 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Roosevelt Island
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · M
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
York Av/E 60 St · M31
Within a walk
17 places
8 parks, 4 public spaces and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Queensboro Bridge & York Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Roosevelt Island, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 7 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Roosevelt Island M
    0.4 miles
    M

Next trains at this station

Queens
1 line
  1. M …
Downtown
1 line
  1. M …

Also within a walk

  1. Lexington Av/59 St 4, 5, 6, N, R, W
    0.4 miles
    4 5 6 N R W

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Convex Disk at Roosevelt Island” (1996) by Robert Hickman at the Roosevelt Island station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is York Av/E 60 St, 60 feet away, for the M31.

  • 20 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. York Av/E 60 St M31
    60 feet
    M31

Next buses at this stop

  1. M31 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on York Avenue.

  • 25 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 60 St & York Ave 33 docks in all
    90 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive northbound at FDR Drive & East 62nd Street, 870 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 1855 1st Avenue Gas station
    2 miles
  2. 420 East 61st Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    740 feet
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 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
10022
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 8
City Council district
5
Police precinct
19
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 3,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Federal, and built in 1799.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Andrew Haswell Green Park.

  1. East River Roundabout Sculpture by Alice Aycock, 1995
    490 feet
  2. Boar Statue by Pietro Tacca, 1972
    700 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 parks
  • 4 public spaces
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 museum
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Bright Horizons Children's Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    600 feet
  2. Rockefeller Child and Family Center Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Queensboro Oval Park
    50 feet
  2. Twenty-Four Sycamores Park
    170 feet
  3. Twenty-Four Sycamores Park Playground
    200 feet
Show all 9
  1. Andrew Haswell Green Park
    340 feet
  2. East River Walk Park
    410 feet
  3. Sutton Parks Park
    610 feet
  4. Sutton Place Park
    880 feet
  5. Honey Locust Park
    980 feet
  6. Southwest Promenade Park
    1,310 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Sovereign Public space
    530 feet
  2. Public space at Grand Sutton Public space
    660 feet
  3. Public space at Bridge Tower Place Public space
    810 feet
Show all 4
  1. Public space at New Yorker East Public space
    1,030 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Sutton Place Historic District Listed historic place
    690 feet
  2. Mount Vernon Hotel Museum Landmark · listed historic place
    710 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    600 feet
  2. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 31 places to eat and four 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 of the 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Queensboro Bridge or York Avenue.

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