Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive, commonly known as the FDR Drive, is a controlled-access parkway on the east side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.

22 hours ago · NEW YORK (PIX11) – A crash on the FDR Drive in Manhattan on Thursday morning has partially shut down the roadway. The crash happened near 51st Street. The southbound lanes from 53rd to 49th ...

NEW YORK -- The FDR Drive is back open following a deadly crash that closed a section of the roadway overnight in Manhattan. A roughly two-mile stretch was closed in both directions for hours ...

2 days ago · According to investigators, a white Tesla with two passengers was heading northbound on the FDR Drive around 2:44 a.m. when it collided with a guardrail on the Upper East Side.

2 days ago · Cars move along FDR Drive as the sun sets over Lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center. (Image via Getty/Gary Hershorn) An accident that took place on Tuesday on FDR Drive in Manhattan, where a Tesla overturned and began to spontaneously combust, claimed the life of a female driver and left the passenger heavily injured.

3 days ago · UPPER EAST SIDE (WABC) -- A driver was killed and passenger injured in a fiery Tesla crash that closed the FDR Drive on the Upper East Side on Tuesday. The white Tesla, speeding northbound, struck ...

Dec 12, 2021 · FDR Drive, originally named East River Drive, is a freeway running along the eastern edge of Manhattan. It is extended by Harlem River Drive (an upgrade of the original Harlem River Speedway). Exit 6 for 15th Street was closed after 9/11 due to proximity to an electric substation.

Signed as FDR Drive on trailblazers, Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive runs along the west banks of the East River from NY 9A (West Street) and the end of the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel (Interstate 478) in Lower Manhattan to the Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Bridge in East Harlem.

Nov 15, 2021 · The city has a new proposal for protecting the Financial District and Seaport from future flooding: extending the eastern edge of Manhattan’s tip by up to 188 feet — while raising the shoreline and possibly taking down the elevated FDR Drive from the …

A SCENIC HIGHWAY ALONG THE EAST RIVER: Running nine and one-half miles along the eastern edge of Manhattan from the Battery to the Triborough Bridge, the Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive - commonly known as the FDR Drive - forms the line of demarcation between the interior of the East Side and the East River. Like all New York City ...