York Avenue & East 65th Street

York Avenue and East 65th Street meet at a three-way junction in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Manhattan corner. City and Suburban Homes Company, First Avenue Estate, one of two Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 130 feet away, and New York-Presbyterian David H. Koch Center is 1,090 feet away. The nearest subway, 72 St, is about ten minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, four of them parks, and 21 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
72 St
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
230 feet
York Av/E 66 St · M31
Within a walk
18 places
4 parks, 3 colleges and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
York Avenue & East 65th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 72 St, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 72 St Q
    0.5 miles
    Q

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. Q …
Downtown
1 line
  1. Q …

Also within a walk

  1. Lexington Av/63 St M, Q
    0.5 miles
    M Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Perfect Strangers” (2017) by Vik Muniz at the 72 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is York Av/E 66 St, 230 feet away, for the M31.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. York Av/E 66 St M31
    230 feet
    M31

Next buses at this stop

  1. M31 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 28 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 60 St & York Ave 33 docks in all
    0.3 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at FDR Drive & East 63rd Street, 810 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
    750 feet
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2017

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
25 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 Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2020 and July 2024, 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 65th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of East 65th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of York Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 10AM-4PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 102081.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 19 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Beaux-Arts. They were mostly built between 1900 and 1906.

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Rockefeller Child and Family Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    190 feet
  2. Rockefeller University College
    300 feet
  3. Super Stars Tennis Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    550 feet
Show all 7
  1. District 2 Pre-K Center at 403 East 65th Street Pre-K center
    580 feet
  2. P.S. 183 Robert L. Stevenson School
    750 feet
  3. Louis V Gerstner Grad Sch College
    960 feet
  4. Cornell Univ Medical Campus College
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. East River Walk Park
    1,030 feet
  2. Andrew Haswell Green Park
    1,080 feet
  3. Twenty-Four Sycamores Park
    1,100 feet
Show all 5
  1. Twenty-Four Sycamores Park Playground
    1,110 feet
  2. St. Catherine's Park
    1,290 feet

Health care

  1. Rockefeller University Hospital
    300 feet
  2. Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases Hospital
    960 feet
  3. New York-Presbyterian David H. Koch Center Hospital
    1,090 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. City & Suburban Homes Company's First Avenue Estate Historic Dist Listed historic place
    900 feet
  2. Mount Vernon Hotel Museum Listed historic place
    1,150 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St John Neplmucene Church House of worship
    850 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    970 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and two food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 65th 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.