York Avenue & East 66th Street

York Avenue and East 66th Street meet at a three-way junction in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, Manhattan. The corner is also named Marie Sklodowska-Curie Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Rockefeller University Hospital is 60 feet away. The nearest subway, 72 St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, four of them hospitals, and 29 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
72 St
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
York Av/E 66 St · M31
Within a walk
17 places
4 hospitals, 3 colleges and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
York Avenue & East 66th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 72 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. 72 St Q
    0.4 miles
    Q

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. Q …
Downtown
1 line
  1. 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, 50 feet away, for the M31.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. M31 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 44 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 1 Ave & E 68 St 63 docks in all
    1,150 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at FDR Drive & East 63rd Street, 1,070 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 1855 1st Avenue Gas station
    1.6 miles
  2. 500 East 63rd Street Charging for electric cars, 25 Level 2 chargers
    1,010 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 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.

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
27 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Marie Sklodowska-Curie Way, a co-naming enacted on January 17, 2026 (Local Law 48 of 2026).

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 34 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Marie Sklodowska-Curie Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 34 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2019 and August 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 66th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-6PM

South side of East 66th Street

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

East side of York Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 10AM-4PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of York Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

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
    360 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 hospitals
  • 3 colleges
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Rockefeller University College
    60 feet
  2. Rockefeller Child and Family Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    70 feet
  3. P.S. 183 Robert L. Stevenson School
    500 feet
Show all 7
  1. Louis V Gerstner Grad Sch College
    710 feet
  2. Super Stars Tennis Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    810 feet
  3. District 2 Pre-K Center at 403 East 65th Street Pre-K center
    850 feet
  4. Cornell Univ Medical Campus College
    920 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. St. Catherine's Park
    1,020 feet
  2. St. Catherine's Park Playground
    1,060 feet
  3. East River Walk Park
    1,300 feet

Health care

  1. Rockefeller University Hospital
    60 feet
  2. Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases Hospital
    710 feet
  3. New York-Presbyterian David H. Koch Center Hospital
    830 feet
Show all 4
  1. New York-Presbyterian Hospital - New York Weill Cornell Center Hospital
    1,220 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. City & Suburban Homes Company's First Avenue Estate Historic Dist Listed historic place
    1,160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St John Neplmucene Church House of worship
    670 feet
  2. St Catherine Siena Church House of worship
    1,060 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 places to eat and two food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 66th Street or York Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.