East Midtown-Turtle Bay

Neighborhood · Manhattan

From Grand Central Terminal on 42nd Street, East Midtown-Turtle Bay reaches east to the East River, taking in Turtle Bay, Beekman Place and the Sutton Place area to the north.

  • 0.47 square miles
  • 45,765 residents, 2020 Census
  • 91 street corners
  • 3 subway stations
  • 48 bus routes

Turtle Bay is named for a former East River cove between 45th and 48th Streets, and the area began as a farm granted by the Dutch colonial governor in 1639; the cove had been filled in by 1868. Grand Central Terminal, completed in 1913 in the French Beaux-Arts style, became a city landmark in 1967. Between 1918 and 1920, twenty row houses on East 48th and 49th Streets became the Turtle Bay Gardens enclave, now a historic district.

Sources: Turtle Bay, Manhattan (Wikipedia); Grand Central Terminal, 71-105 East 42nd Street (LP-0266, August 2, 1967) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission).

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East Midtown-Turtle Bay borders five areas, and Lexington Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 17 of 91.

Street map of East Midtown-Turtle Bay, Manhattan, outlined among Midtown-Times Square, Murray Hill-Kips Bay, Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island and United Nations, with its three subway stations and Dag Hammarskjold Plaza.Upper East Side-Carnegie HillUpper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt IslandUnited NationsMurray Hill-Kips BayMidtown-Times Square
  • East Midtown-Turtle Bay
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • 59 St lines 4 5 6
  • 51 St / Lexington Av/53 St lines 6 E F accessible
  • Grand Central-42 St lines 4 5 6 7 accessible

Getting around

Three subway stations and buses on 48 routes stop in or at the edge of East Midtown-Turtle Bay.

  • 3 subway stations
  • 2 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 10 local bus routes
  • 38 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • M15
  • M15-SBS
  • M31
  • M42
  • M50
  • M57
  • M101
  • M102
  • M103
  • Q32

Express bus routes

  • BM1
  • BM2
  • BM3
  • BM4
  • BM5
  • BxM1
  • QM1
  • QM2
  • QM4
  • QM5
  • QM6
  • QM10
  • QM12
  • QM15
  • QM16
  • QM17
  • QM18
  • QM20
  • QM21
  • QM24
  • QM31
  • QM32
  • QM34
  • QM35
  • QM36
  • QM40
  • QM42
  • QM44
  • QM63
  • QM64
  • QM68
  • SIM6
  • SIM8
  • SIM11
  • SIM22
  • SIM25
  • SIM26
  • SIM31

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged more police-reported crashes than the average Manhattan corner.

  • 1,677 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 18.4 a corner, on average
  • 13.4 the average Manhattan corner
  • 5 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 60 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
54
Accessible pedestrian signals
15
Turn calming
14
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
4
Safety Improvement Projects
2

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more bus-lane camera tickets than school-zone speed or red-light tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 1,450 school-zone speed camera tickets at one corner
  • 10,946 bus-lane camera tickets at six corners
Most speed tickets
2nd Avenue & East 56th Street, 1,450
Most bus-lane tickets
2nd Avenue & East 45th Street, 6,191

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 45,765 residents in East Midtown-Turtle Bay, about 97,400 per square mile.

  • 32,087 homes, 2020 Census
  • 1,883 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 765 residential lots hold buildings from 1920 or earlier, and 72% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
3.8 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Dag Hammarskjold Plaza (1.6 acres), Sutton Parks (0.8 acre) and Peter Detmold Park (0.6 acre)
Designated landmarks
The Graybar Building, the Amster Yard, the Central Synagogue and the Citicorp Center and Saint Peter's Church, among others
Historic district
Turtle Bay Gardens Historic District, wholly or partly within East Midtown-Turtle Bay

Streets and trees

Trees
1,982 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, maidenhair tree and Callery pear
Street with the most corners
Lexington Avenue, with 17 of the area's 91
Height above sea level
From 9 feet at FDR Drive & East 49th Street to 66 feet at Queensboro Bridge & East 58th Street
Honorary street name
1 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists six schools and two libraries in East Midtown-Turtle Bay.

Public schools
2
Charter and private schools
4
Libraries
58th Street Library and Terence Cardinal Cooke-Cathedral Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 18 bike-share stations stand in East Midtown-Turtle Bay. The City's public art inventory lists one work in the area: Boar (1972).

  • 18 bike-share stations
  • 1 work of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 463 major felonies at places in East Midtown-Turtle Bay.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in East Midtown-Turtle Bay

  • 512 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,217 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of East Midtown-Turtle Bay, the NYPD recorded another 114 major felonies.

Map of East Midtown-Turtle Bay: 10 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in East Midtown-Turtle Bay, 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of East Midtown-Turtle Bay, most about 1,000 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of East Midtown-Turtle Bay are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for East Midtown-Turtle Bay and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
17th (most of the area), 18th, 14th
Major felonies recorded at places in East Midtown-Turtle Bay, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 187 major felonies at places in East Midtown-Turtle Bay, against 225 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.