Upper East Side-Yorkville

Neighborhood · Manhattan

Upper East Side-Yorkville runs from 79th Street to 96th Street between Third Avenue and the East River.

  • 0.49 square miles
  • 84,046 residents, 2020 Census
  • 72 street corners
  • 2 subway stations
  • 16 bus routes

A hamlet grew up near the railroad's 86th Street station, the area was known as Yorkville before 1867, and elevated lines opened on Third and Second Avenues in 1878 and 1879. For much of the 19th century and into the 20th it was mostly German, and over time families of Czech, Slovak, Irish, Polish and Hungarian descent moved in. Gracie Mansion, one of Manhattan's oldest wooden structures, is the official residence of the city's mayors, and the Henderson Place Historic District sits on East End Avenue between 86th and 87th Streets.

Sources: Yorkville, Manhattan (Wikipedia); Gracie Mansion Conservancy.

Map

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Upper East Side-Yorkville borders three areas, and 1st Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 17 of 72.

Street map of Upper East Side-Yorkville, Manhattan, outlined among Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island and East Harlem (South), with its two subway stations and Carl Schurz Park.East Harlem (South)Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt IslandUpper East Side-Carnegie Hill
  • Upper East Side-Yorkville
  • 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 Q accessible
  • 86 St lines Q accessible

Getting around

Two subway stations and buses on 16 routes stop in or at the edge of Upper East Side-Yorkville.

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

Local bus routes

  • M15
  • M15-SBS
  • M31
  • M79-SBS
  • M86-SBS
  • M96
  • M98
  • M101
  • M102
  • M103

Express bus routes

  • BxM1
  • BxM6
  • BxM7
  • BxM8
  • BxM9
  • BxM10

Safety record

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

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

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 56 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
52
Accessible pedestrian signals
9
Turn calming
7
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
3

Camera tickets

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

  • 639 red-light camera tickets at one corner
  • 2,356 school-zone speed camera tickets at four corners
  • 941 bus-lane camera tickets at two corners
Most red-light tickets
York Avenue & East 79th Street, 639
Most speed tickets
1st Avenue & East 84th Street, 1,418
Most bus-lane tickets
2nd Avenue & East 85th Street, 630

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 84,046 residents in Upper East Side-Yorkville, about 171,500 per square mile.

  • 49,082 homes, 2020 Census
  • 464 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 1,387 residential lots hold buildings from 1920 or earlier, and 82% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA developments

NYCHA's Holmes Towers and Isaacs developments lie wholly or partly within Upper East Side-Yorkville.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
23.6 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Carl Schurz Park (13.2 acres), Asphalt Green (4.2 acres) and Mill Rock Park (2.7 acres)
Designated landmarks
The Church of the Holy Trinity, the Parsonage of Holy Trinity Church (Rhinelander Memorial), Saint Christopher House (Rhinelander Memorial) and the Municipal Asphalt Plant, among others
Historic district
Henderson Place Historic District, wholly or partly within Upper East Side-Yorkville

Streets and trees

Trees
3,143 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, London planetree and maidenhair tree
Street with the most corners
1st Avenue, with 17 of the area's 72
Height above sea level
From 6 feet at FDR Drive & East 96th Street to 83 feet at 3rd Avenue & East 88th Street

Schools

The City lists 13 schools in Upper East Side-Yorkville.

Public schools
5
Charter and private schools
8

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 13 bike-share stations stand in Upper East Side-Yorkville. The City's public art inventory lists one work in the area: Peter Pan (1975).

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

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 510 major felonies at places in Upper East Side-Yorkville.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Upper East Side-Yorkville

  • 511 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,350 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Upper East Side-Yorkville, the NYPD recorded another 207 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 8.5 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Upper East Side-Yorkville.

Map of Upper East Side-Yorkville: 9 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-Yorkville, 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-Yorkville, 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 Upper East Side-Yorkville 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-Yorkville and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
19th
Major felonies recorded at places in Upper East Side-Yorkville, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 243 major felonies at places in Upper East Side-Yorkville, against 259 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.