13th Avenue (Brooklyn)
The 13th Avenue (also: Thirteenth Avenue ; German 13th Avenue ) in Brooklyn , New York City is an approximately four kilometers long, perfectly straight street that runs in a northeast-southwest direction. The 36th street in the north and 86th street in the south cross across the chessboard-like street network of this district. Approximately in the middle of the avenue crosses the Bay Ridge Branch , a railway line used today on the one hand for freight traffic, which is a branch of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) network to the port facilities on Upper New York Bay . On the other hand, the trains of line N run here (see below).
According to North American custom, the house numbers on 13th Avenue are 3600 to 8599. North of this railway line at 60th Street, both 13th Avenue and 14th Avenue running parallel in the opposite direction can only be used as one-way streets. 13th Avenue has two lanes and parking lanes on either side of the street and is lined with trees on both sides. The northern section of the road was also given the additional designation Raoul Wallenberg Way in November 2012 in honor of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg , who saved the lives of numerous Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust .
13th Avenue is between the two higher classified streets, Fort Hamilton Parkway (northwest) and New Uetrecht Avenue (southeast).
history
The street was planned and developed in the 1930s as part of the continuous urban expansion. In the late 1930s, a market was established at 42nd Street, initially stocked by traders who came with their handcarts from the southern and eastern quarters. A little later the first permanent stores opened there. The population at that time consisted mainly of Jews and Italians, but also of Poles and Germans, exclusively whites, who all belonged to a first or second generation of immigrants.
meaning
13th Avenue is a major shopping street in the borough . It is also an ancestral residential area of the Jewish population in New York City . In the 1980s, the moderate-modern Jewish population shifted to ultra-Orthodox Jews . Since the 1990s, there has also been an increased migration of a younger resident population from Manhattan to Brooklyn, which also contributes to the sociostructure of this district. Accordingly, the quarter was upgraded in the years after 1990. A significant sign is the presence of various banks that have settled along 13th Avenue. Between 45th and 55th streets alone there are now over a dozen banks, four of which have been added since 2009.
Due to the high proportion of Jews, the offer is not only geared towards the Jews living here, there has been a kosher hotel for visitors and tourists between 12th and 13th avenue on 48th Street since 1987 .
Public transport
Suburban trains on the N line of the BMT operate on the Bay Ridge Branch . The closest stop to 13th Avenue is New Utrecht Avenue, between 14th and 15th Avenues. A viaduct which runs line D of the Independent about the New Utrecht Avenue with a stop near the intersection of line N with the station 62nd Street and further north at the intersection of 55th Street with the station 55th Street .
Bus routes 816 and 835, which connect to Brownsville , for example, operate in the northern section of the street, while bus lines 864 operate in the southern section and end in the west at American Veterans Memorial Pier on New York Bay .
Individual evidence
- ^ The Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States expresses its gratitude to the New York City Council for Re-Naming a Major Avenue in Honor of Raoul Wallenberg. Press release from the Raoul Wallenberg Committee
- ↑ Estelle Breines: Brooklyn Roots. A Tale of Pickles and Egg Creams . iUniverse, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4502-6421-1 , p. 4f.
- ↑ The magazine Et Cetera , No. 9, Tamedia Verlag Zurich 2015, p. 12
- ^ Forgotten New York. Borough Park. October 23, 2011
- ^ Josh Baum: Borough Park, New York Area Hotels . UStoday
Coordinates: 40 ° 37 ′ 41 ″ N , 73 ° 59 ′ 58 ″ W.