York Avenue & East 60th Street

York Avenue and East 60th Street meet at a five-way junction in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The sculpture “East River Roundabout” is 420 feet away. The nearest subway, Lexington Av/59 St, is about eight minutes on foot, and seven subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, seven of them parks, and 29 places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along one of the streets meeting here.

Safety record
1 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Lexington Av/59 St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 4, 5, 6, N, R, W
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
York Av/E 60 St · M31
Within a walk
16 places
7 parks, 4 public spaces and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
York Avenue & East 60th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Lexington Av/59 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 6 lines at the nearest station
  • 7 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lexington Av/59 St 4, 5, 6, N, R, W
    0.4 miles
    4 5 6 N R W

Next trains at this station

Uptown
3 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. 5 …
  3. 6 …
Downtown
6 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. 5 …
  3. 6 …
  4. N …
  5. R …
  6. W …
Queens
3 lines
  1. N …
  2. R …
  3. W …

Also within a walk

  1. Roosevelt Island M
    0.4 miles
    M

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Blooming” (1996) by Elizabeth Murray at the Lexington Av/59 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is York Av/E 60 St, 40 feet away, for the M31.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. M31 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on East 60th Street, East 60th Street Pedestrian Overpass and York Avenue.

  • 24 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, 750 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 1855 1st Avenue Gas station
    1.9 miles
  2. 420 East 61st Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    630 feet
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2012

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
Elevation
23 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,400 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 1950 and 1988.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2016 and July 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 60th Street

  • Bus layover only 3 signs MTA BUS LAYOVER ONLY NO ENGINE IDLING MAX FINE $2000
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of East 60th Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 7 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

East side of York Avenue

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of York Avenue

  • Bus layover only 2 signs MTA BUS LAYOVER ONLY NO ENGINE IDLING MAX FINE $2000
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

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
    420 feet
  2. Boar Statue by Pietro Tacca, 1972
    810 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 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
    530 feet
  2. Rockefeller Child and Family Center Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,100 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Twenty-Four Sycamores Park
    60 feet
  2. Queensboro Oval Park
    60 feet
  3. Twenty-Four Sycamores Park Playground
    80 feet
Show all 8
  1. Andrew Haswell Green Park
    290 feet
  2. East River Walk Park
    520 feet
  3. Sutton Parks Park
    730 feet
  4. Sutton Place Park
    1,000 feet
  5. Honey Locust Park
    1,080 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Sovereign Public space
    650 feet
  2. Public space at Bridge Tower Place Public space
    700 feet
  3. Public space at Grand Sutton Public space
    780 feet
Show all 4
  1. Public space at New Yorker East Public space
    1,150 feet

Libraries, museums and history

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

Supermarkets

  1. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    720 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 29 places to eat and four food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 17 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 60th Street or York 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.