York Avenue & East 64th Street

York Avenue and East 64th Street meet at a three-way junction in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Andrew Haswell Green Park is 810 feet away. The nearest subway, Lexington Av/63 St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the M and Q. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, four of them parks, and 26 places to eat. About 4,200 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
6 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Lexington Av/63 St
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · M, Q
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
York Av/E 64 St · M31
Within a walk
16 places
4 parks, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
York Avenue & East 64th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Lexington Av/63 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Lexington Av/63 St M, Q
    0.4 miles
    M Q

Next trains at this station

Uptown & Queens
2 lines
  1. M …
  2. Q …
Downtown
2 lines
  1. M …
  2. Q …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Elevated” (2017) by Jean Shin at the Lexington Av/63 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is York Av/E 64 St, 110 feet away, for the M31.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. York Av/E 64 St M31
    110 feet
    M31

Next buses at this stop

  1. M31 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 27 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 60 St & York Ave 33 docks in all
    1,140 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at FDR Drive & East 63rd Street, 550 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 1855 1st Avenue Gas station
    1.7 miles
  2. 500 East 63rd Street Charging for electric cars, 25 Level 2 chargers
    490 feet
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2020

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10065
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
24 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 4,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 15 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2020 and August 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 10am to 4pm on York Avenue (east side).

North side of East 64th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of East 64th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of York Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 10AM-4PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 102081.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and 20 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Beaux-Arts. They were mostly built between 1899 and 1906.

  1. City and Suburban Homes Company, First Avenue Estate Designated landmark
    140 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 parks
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 colleges
  • 2 hospitals
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Rockefeller Child and Family Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    60 feet
  2. Rockefeller University College
    560 feet
  3. Super Stars Tennis Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    810 feet
Show all 6
  1. District 2 Pre-K Center at 403 East 65th Street Pre-K center
    850 feet
  2. P.S. 183 Robert L. Stevenson School
    1,020 feet
  3. Louis V Gerstner Grad Sch College
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. East River Walk Park
    770 feet
  2. Andrew Haswell Green Park
    810 feet
  3. Twenty-Four Sycamores Park
    830 feet
Show all 5
  1. Twenty-Four Sycamores Park Playground
    850 feet
  2. Queensboro Oval Park
    1,100 feet

Health care

  1. Rockefeller University Hospital
    560 feet
  2. Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases Hospital
    1,230 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Mount Vernon Hotel Museum Landmark · listed historic place
    890 feet
  2. City & Suburban Homes Company's First Avenue Estate Historic Dist Listed historic place
    900 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St John Neplmucene Church House of worship
    1,120 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    720 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    980 feet
  2. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 places to eat and four food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 64th 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 Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.