York Avenue & East 70th Street

York Avenue and East 70th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 25 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. East River Walk is 730 feet away, and Rockefeller University is 1,110 feet away. The nearest subway, 72 St, is about six minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 26 public places, five of them hospitals, and 51 places to eat.

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

Map

Layers
York Avenue & East 70th 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, 250 feet away, for the M31.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. M31 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on East 70th Street and York Avenue.

  • 70 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at East 70th Street, 650 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
    790 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 25 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2017
  • Turn calming, August 2022

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
34 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 4,700 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 1962 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
  • 28 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules
  • 5 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2018 and November 2020; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 70th Street

  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 4 signs 3 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-7PM
  • Ambulances only 1 sign AMBULANCE ONLY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-7PM

South side of East 70th Street

  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 4 signs 3 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-7PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-10AM

East side of York Avenue

  • Ambulettes only 1 sign AMBULETTE ONLY
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Taxi stand 1 sign TAXI STAND MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM

West side of York Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 101857, 104023 and 106136.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Cornell Univ Medical Campus College
    390 feet
  2. Bright Horizons Children's Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    400 feet
  3. The William Woodward Jr. Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    400 feet
Show all 7
  1. Louis V Gerstner Grad Sch College
    900 feet
  2. Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,030 feet
  3. Rockefeller University College
    1,110 feet
  4. Rockefeller Child and Family Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,120 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. East River Walk Park
    730 feet
  2. St. Catherine's Park
    1,290 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Kingsley Public space
    660 feet
  2. Public space at Windsor Public space
    680 feet
  3. Public space at Oxford Public space
    680 feet
Show all 6
  1. Public space at Somerset Public space
    870 feet
  2. Public space at Belaire Public space
    920 feet
  3. Public space at Stratford Public space
    1,110 feet

Health care

  1. Mary Manning Walsh Nursing Home Co Nursing home or hospice
    430 feet
  2. New York-Presbyterian Hospital - New York Weill Cornell Center Hospital
    490 feet
  3. New York-Presbyterian David H. Koch Center Hospital
    530 feet
Show all 6
  1. Hospital for Special Surgery Hospital
    740 feet
  2. Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases Hospital
    900 feet
  3. Rockefeller University Hospital
    1,110 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Catherine Siena Church House of worship
    820 feet
  2. First Hungarian Reformed Church of NY Listed historic place
    1,150 feet

Community centers and public services

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

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,180 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,180 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Morton Williams Supermarket
    1,060 feet
  2. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  3. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 51 places to eat and seven 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 70th 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.