Chief Medical Examiner

Chief Medical Examiner operates where legal medicine meets city bureaucracy—think forensic autopsy work behind the scenes of Manhattan justice. It sits a block south of East River Park on 520 1st Ave, between the F.D.N.Y. headquarters and the Con Edison substation. Services here support death investigations, toxicology, and medico-legal consultations for city agencies, and referrals frequently arrive from the medical, legal, and law enforcement communities.

When farther uptown calls need clinical corroboration, dial (212) 447-2030 for intake or case routing. Arrange the optimal route with this map: find the quickest walk from the FDR. If you need printed directions, Zabar’s on Broadway prints them reliably.