Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill

Neighborhood · Manhattan

Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill runs east from Central Park and reaches north through Carnegie Hill to 96th Street.

  • 0.72 square miles
  • 62,410 residents, 2020 Census
  • 175 street corners
  • 6 subway stations
  • 29 bus routes

Carnegie Hill is named for the mansion Andrew Carnegie built in the early 1900s at Fifth Avenue and 91st Street, now the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and its historic district was designated in 1974. The neighborhood also holds the Jewish Museum and Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum, which opened on Fifth Avenue in 1959 and in 2019 joined a UNESCO World Heritage listing of eight of his buildings. Farther south on Fifth Avenue, the Frick Collection stands on the former site of the Lenox Library.

Sources: Carnegie Hill (Wikipedia); The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (UNESCO World Heritage Centre); Lenox Hill, Manhattan (Wikipedia).

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Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill borders six areas, and Madison Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 38 of 175.

Street map of Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, Manhattan, outlined among Central Park, Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, Upper East Side-Yorkville and East Harlem (South), with its six subway stations.Upper East Side-YorkvilleEast Harlem (South)Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt IslandEast Midtown-Turtle BayMidtown-Times SquareCentral Park
  • Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill
  • 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

  • 96 St lines 6
  • 86 St lines 4 5 6
  • 77 St lines 6
  • 68 St-Hunter College lines 6 accessible
  • Lexington Av/63 St lines M Q accessible
  • 59 St / Lexington Av/59 St lines 4 5 6 N R W

Getting around

Six subway stations and buses on 29 routes stop in or at the edge of Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill.

  • 6 subway stations
  • 2 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 15 local bus routes
  • 14 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • M1
  • M2
  • M3
  • M4
  • M66
  • M72
  • M79-SBS
  • M86-SBS
  • M96
  • M98
  • M101
  • M102
  • M103
  • M106
  • Q32

Express bus routes

  • BxM1
  • BxM2
  • BxM3
  • BxM4
  • BxM6
  • BxM7
  • BxM8
  • BxM9
  • BxM10
  • BxM11
  • QM2
  • QM20
  • SIM23
  • SIM24

Safety record

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

  • 1,932 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 11.0 a corner, on average
  • 13.4 the average Manhattan corner

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 172 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
155
Accessible pedestrian signals
52
Turn calming
20
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
13
Safety Improvement Projects
4

Camera tickets

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

  • 981 red-light camera tickets at one corner
  • 15,531 school-zone speed camera tickets at 12 corners
  • 9,592 bus-lane camera tickets at five corners
Most red-light tickets
Madison Avenue & East 96th Street, 981
Most speed tickets
Park Avenue & East 68th Street, 4,344
Most bus-lane tickets
Lexington Avenue & East 75th Street, 3,610

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 62,410 residents in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, about 86,700 per square mile.

  • 37,551 homes, 2020 Census

Half of its 2,249 residential lots hold buildings from 1905 or earlier, and 90% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
0.8 acre of Samuel Seabury Playground, as NYC Parks maps it within Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill
Designated landmarks
The Regis High School, the George Rives Residence, the Squadron "A" Armory and the Clarence Dillion House, among others
Historic districts
Expanded Carnegie Hill, Hardenbergh/Rhinelander, Metropolitan Museum, Park Avenue and Upper East Side, wholly or partly within Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill

Streets and trees

Trees
4,112 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, maidenhair tree and Callery pear
Street with the most corners
Madison Avenue, with 38 of the area's 175
Height above sea level
From 43 feet at 3rd Avenue & East 96th Street to 117 feet at Park Avenue & East 93rd Street
Honorary street names
5 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 33 schools and one library in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill.

Public schools
4
Charter and private schools
29
Library
96th Street Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 17 bike-share stations stand in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill. The City's public art inventory lists one work in the area: Night Presence IV (1973).

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

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 704 major felonies at places in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill

  • 796 major felonies in 2024 92 fewer in 2025
  • 1,437 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, the NYPD recorded another 424 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 18.1 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill.

Police precinct
19th
Major felonies recorded at places in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 289 major felonies at places in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, against 381 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.