Eleventh Avenue (Manhattan)
The Eleventh Avenue is a thoroughfare on the New York West Side , where they the south of the Borough of Manhattan connects to the north. The road runs near the Hudson River . Eleventh Avenue begins in the Meatpacking District in the Greenwich Village / West Village Neighborhoods at Gansevoort Street , where Eleventh Avenue, Tenth Avenue and West Street meet. It is part of the West Side Highway between 22nd and Gansevoort Streets.
Between 59th and 107th Streets, the street is called West End Avenue . West End Avenue and Eleventh Avenue are part of the same street.
description
Between Gansevoort Street and West 22nd Street, Eleventh Avenue is part of the West Side Highway , an expressway. Its width corresponds to the plans of the commissioner from 1811 .
Once divided, Eleventh Avenue is a two-way street that connects to 23rd Street and 24th Street. It connects to the Chelsea Piers . North of 24th Street, 11th Avenue has one lane from 24th to 44th Street, where it has two lanes again.
The part north of 59th Street is called West End Avenue, which serves both business and residential purposes.
history
The New York Central Railroad on Eleventh Avenue a streetcar operating. Because of the numerous accidents with pedestrians, it was nicknamed "Death Avenue". In 1934 a law passed the construction of Henry Hudson Parkway . This should be an alternative route to "Death Avenue".
Meanwhile, the West End Avenue section was created in the 1880s. It was called West End Avenue because at that time the Upper West Side was still sparsely populated and the avenue formed the west end in relation to the city center.
Parts of West End Avenue and Eleventh Avenue degenerated in the mid-20th century. There were hourly hotels here where prostitution was practiced and there was a drug scene in the areas. The economic comeback in the 1980s led to recovery and gentrification .
The upper part of the street was built on at the end of the 19th century with twelve-storey houses made of high quality material. The absence of shops makes this street quiet in contrast to the busy character of the rest of the street.
Known residents
- Judy Collins , singer
- Tina Fey , comedian
- Joseph Heller Author ( Catch-22 )
- Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban , actors
- Anna Netrebko , opera singer
- Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943), Russian composer, lived at 505 West End Avenue
Eleventh Avenue in theater, film and literature
- The Prince of West End Avenue, a novel by Alan Isler , mentions West End Avenue
- The Mirror Has Two Faces , a film with and by Barbra Streisand , is set in part at 505 West End Avenue
- The IAC Building on 11th Avenue is the location of the action on Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps .
- Chelsea Market (between 15th and 16th Street)
Buildings and parks on the street
- Chelsea Piers (18th to 23rd Street along the West Side Highway )
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Comedy Central
- The Colbert Report studios on 54th Street
- The Daily Show studios on 51st Street
- Formerly: Copacabana Nightclub on 34th Street
- DeWitt Clinton Park (between 52nd Street and 54th Street)
- The high line
- The Hudson River Park (parallel to Eleventh Avenue from 11th Street to 22nd Street)
- IAC Building (on 19th Street)
- The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center (between 34th and 39th Streets)
- Pier 57 (on 15th Street)
- Silver Towers on 41st / 42nd Streets
- Starrett-Lehigh Building on 26th / 27th Streets
- The Whitney Museum of American Art on Gansevoort Street
- 3 Hudson Boulevard at 34th / 35th Streets
- 35 Hudson Yards on 33rd Street
- 55 Hudson Yards on 33rd / 34th Streets
- 100 Eleventh Avenue designed by Jean Nouvel
- Riverside Park
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Hughes, CJ: West End Avenue: Prospects of a Singular Thoroughfare . In: The New York Times . September 10, 2013. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
- ↑ Staff. "State may regulate tracks on 11th Ave .; Court Denies Right of City to Disturb New York Central in Use of the Street." , The New York Times , May 20, 1911. Retrieved August 7, 2009. "... the way had been opened through the decision for settling the so-called 'Death Avenue' problem".
- ↑ Gray, Christopher. "How the West Was Won Side" , The New York Times , May 13, 2007. Retrieved on 4 August, 2008.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ A b Jackson, Nancy Beth. "If You're Thinking of Living On / West End Avenue; Quiet, Convenient, Diverse and Involved" , The New York Times , February 23, 2003. Retrieved on 4 August, 2008.
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/arts/17hell.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
- ^ Rachmaninoff, Buried in New York, May Return to Russia . In: The New York Times , April 11, 1992.
