York Avenue & East 69th Street

York Avenue and East 69th Street meet at a three-way junction in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. New York-Presbyterian David H. Koch Center is 280 feet away. The nearest subway, 72 St, is about six minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 28 public places, five of them hospitals, and 52 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
72 St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
York Av/E 69 St · M31
Within a walk
28 places
5 hospitals, 5 public spaces and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
York Avenue & East 69th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 72 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  1. 72 St Q
    0.3 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 69 St, 40 feet away, for the M31.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. York Av/E 69 St M31 · Shelter
    40 feet
    M31
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M31 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 75 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 72 St & York Ave 29 docks in all
    880 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at East 70th Street, 920 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 1855 1st Avenue Gas station
    1.5 miles
  2. 1365 York Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    1,050 feet
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2023
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10021
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
33 feet above sea level

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. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1963 and 1987.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 19 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2018 and February 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 69th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of East 69th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

West side of York Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 28 public places.

  • 5 hospitals
  • 5 public spaces
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 colleges
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Cornell Univ Medical Campus College
    130 feet
  2. Louis V Gerstner Grad Sch College
    640 feet
  3. Bright Horizons Children's Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    660 feet
Show all 8
  1. The William Woodward Jr. Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    660 feet
  2. Rockefeller University College
    840 feet
  3. Rockefeller Child and Family Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    850 feet
  4. P.S. 183 Robert L. Stevenson School
    1,280 feet
  5. Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. East River Walk Park
    1,000 feet
  2. St. Catherine's Park
    1,030 feet
  3. St. Catherine's Park Playground
    1,060 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Kingsley Public space
    930 feet
  2. Public space at Windsor Public space
    940 feet
  3. Public space at Oxford Public space
    940 feet
Show all 5
  1. Public space at Somerset Public space
    1,130 feet
  2. Public space at Belaire Public space
    1,180 feet

Health care

  1. New York-Presbyterian David H. Koch Center Hospital
    280 feet
  2. Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases Hospital
    640 feet
  3. Mary Manning Walsh Nursing Home Co Nursing home or hospice
    690 feet
Show all 6
  1. New York-Presbyterian Hospital - New York Weill Cornell Center Hospital
    750 feet
  2. Rockefeller University Hospital
    840 feet
  3. Hospital for Special Surgery Hospital
    1,000 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Rowhouses at 322-344 East 69th Street Listed historic place
    1,200 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Catherine Siena Church House of worship
    560 feet
  2. First Hungarian Reformed Church of NY Listed historic place
    1,030 feet
  3. St John Neplmucene Church House of worship
    1,300 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 343 East 70th Street Older adult center
    1,190 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Morton Williams Supermarket
    1,320 feet
  2. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 52 places to eat and four food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 69th 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, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.