Our address:
The Program for the Human Environment
The Rockefeller University
1230 York Ave. (at 66th St.)
New York, NY, 10065-6399
Phone: 212-327-7917
Fax: 212-327-7519
Email: phe@rockefeller.edu
www.phe.rockefeller.edu
The campus is located between York Avenue and the East River. Entrance for visitors is through the main gate at 66th St. and York Avenue. Stop at the security booth and ask to call extension 7917.
Walk up the main drive, and at the top of the hill, head right towards the traffic circle. We are on the 4th floor of the Nurses Residence (Building 17).
From the Airports
Yellow Cabs—registered & licensed
La Guardia/LGA—midtown: $60-65 (includes tolls, taxes, and tip) and will take about 25 minutes.
John F. Kennedy/JFK—midtown: $74 (plus tolls, taxes, and tip) and will take about 45 minutes. $5 rush hour surcharge for weekday trips between 4-8pm, excluding holidays.
Newark, NJ/EWR—midtown: $110-120 and will take about an hour.
Public transportation to LaGuardia, JFK & Newark: panynj.gov/airports/lga-public-transportation.html panynj.gov/airports/jfk-public-transportation.html panynj.gov/airports/jfk-airtrain.html
panynj.gov/airports/pdf/ewr-airtrain-brochure-english.pdf
Uber or Lyft (Estimated, varies based on time of day, traffic, and weather)
Uber
La Guardia/LGA—midtown: $67
John F. Kennedy/JFK—midtown: $88
Newark, NJ/EWR—midtown: $113
Lyft
La Guardia/LGA—midtown: $59
John F. Kennedy/JFK—midtown: $96
Newark, NJ/EWR—midtown: $114
Taxis from the train stations
From Grand Central (Metro-North): a taxi costs ~ $18 to 66th Street & York Avenue.
From Penn Station (Amtrak, NJ Transit, LIRR): a taxi costs ~ $30 to 66th Street & York Avenue.
NYC Public Transportation: Subways & Buses
Fare is $2.90 one way: Free transfers on buses and subways with a Metrocard.
From Penn Station, 34th Street (Westside)
Nearest subway stations: #1 subway to 66th Street/Lincoln Center & transfer to the M66 crosstown bus to York Avenue & 68th Street. ~50 minutes. Q subway, proceed north from Times Square to East 63rd Street & Lexington (exiting by elevators at 3rd Avenue, the front end of train) for a 12-minute walk to Campus, OR to East 72nd Street exiting back end of the train at East 69th Street & Second. Walk to 66th Street & York Avenue. ~ 10 minutes.
From Grand Central Station (Eastside)
#6 subway to 68th Street and walk East to campus (~20 minutes), or transfer to the M66 crosstown bus to York Avenue & 68th Street (the last stop). Total ~40 minutes
Subway
NYC Subway Map: https://web.mta.info/maps/submap.html
Additional subway stations: N/R to 60th & Third Avenue (Bloomingdale’s) & the F train to 63rd & Lexington Avenue.
Bus
Additional bus: (bus stop across the street from The Rockefeller University’s/Main Entrance at 66th Street): M31—57th Street crosstown bus to midtown (goes both west & east).
MTA for the M66 & M31 bus/Manhattan Bus Map:
web.mta.info/nyct/maps/manbus.pdf
Car Service
Please ask your host for car service recommendations.
Parking
Parking located in the area:
Kinney Parking: 450 East 63rd Street (between York & 1st Avenue) Greenberg Garage: New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center (entrance at 68th Street, east of York Avenue)