Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island

Neighborhood · Manhattan

Roosevelt Island, in the East River between Manhattan and Queens, joins the riverside blocks of Lenox Hill on the southern Upper East Side to form Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island.

  • 0.77 square miles
  • 85,527 residents, 2020 Census
  • 115 street corners
  • 2 subway stations
  • 14 bus routes

The Lenox Hill name recalls Robert Lenox, a Scottish merchant who bought East Side farmland from 1818; his son James sold it as lots in the 1860s and 1870s. On York Avenue at 66th Street, the Rockefeller Institute opened its laboratories in 1906 and became Rockefeller University in 1965. Roosevelt Island, once Blackwell's and then Welfare Island, took its present name in 1973, gained its tramway in 1976, and keeps Blackwell House, a farmhouse built between 1796 and 1804.

Sources: Lenox Hill, Manhattan (Wikipedia); Roosevelt Island (Wikipedia); The Rockefeller University » Our History (The Rockefeller University).

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Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island borders three areas, and 1st Avenue and 2nd Avenue hold more of its corners than any other street, 22 each of 115.

Street map of Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, Manhattan, outlined among Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, Upper East Side-Yorkville and East Midtown-Turtle Bay, with its two subway stations and John Jay Park.Upper East Side-YorkvilleEast Midtown-Turtle BayUpper East Side-Carnegie Hill
  • Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island
  • 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

  • 72 St lines Q accessible
  • Roosevelt Island lines M accessible

Getting around

Two subway stations and buses on 14 routes stop in or at the edge of Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island.

  • 2 subway stations
  • 2 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 13 local bus routes
  • 1 express bus route

Local bus routes

  • M15
  • M15-SBS
  • M31
  • M66
  • M72
  • M79-SBS
  • M98
  • M101
  • M102
  • M103
  • Q32
  • Q60
  • Q102

Express bus route

  • BxM1

Safety record

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

  • 1,932 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 16.8 a corner, on average
  • 13.4 the average Manhattan corner
  • 25 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 65 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
57
Turn calming
17
Accessible pedestrian signals
16
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
5

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
  • 1,685 school-zone speed camera tickets at four corners
  • 14,289 bus-lane camera tickets at six corners
Most speed tickets
1st Avenue & East 75th Street, 776
Most bus-lane tickets
1st Avenue & East 62nd Street, 6,486

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 85,527 residents in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, about 111,100 per square mile.

  • 52,289 homes, 2020 Census
  • 2,013 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 1,149 residential lots hold buildings from 1910 or earlier, and 78% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA development

NYCHA's Robbins Plaza development lies wholly or partly within Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
11.8 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
John Jay Park (3.3 acres), East River Walk (2.6 acres) and Andrew Haswell Green Park (1.8 acres)
Designated landmarks
The Abigail Adams Smith Museum; the City and Suburban Homes Company, First Avenue Estate; the Bohemian National Hall (Narodni Budova); and the First Hungarian Reformed Church, among others
Historic district
Treadwell Farm Historic District, wholly or partly within Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island

Streets and trees

Trees
2,739 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, Callery pear and London planetree
Street with the most corners
1st Avenue, with 22 of the area's 115
Height above sea level
From 5 feet at John Finley Walk & FDR Drive Greenway to 79 feet at 3rd Avenue & East 67th Street
Honorary street names
6 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 19 schools and four libraries in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island.

Public schools
12
Charter and private schools
7
Libraries
67th Street Library, Roosevelt Island Library, Webster Library and Yorkville Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 15 bike-share stations stand in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island. The City's public art inventory lists three works in the area: Eaphae-Aekyad #2 (1979), Kryeti-Aekyad #2 (1979) and East River Roundabout (1995).

  • 15 bike-share stations
  • 3 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 610 major felonies at places in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island

  • 557 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,443 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, the NYPD recorded another 287 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 10.5 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island.

Map of Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island: 11 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 Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, 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 Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, most about 1,250 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 Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island 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 Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
19th (most of the area), 114th
Major felonies recorded at places in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 278 major felonies at places in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, against 304 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.