Eighth Avenue (Manhattan)
The Eighth Avenue (also 8th Avenue ; English Eighth = Eighth-s / r / n) is a street in New York . It runs in a north-south direction through New York City's Manhattan borough .
Location and course
Eighth Avenue begins as a one-way street in the West Village neighborhood at Abingdon Square and runs for 44 blocks through the Chelsea neighborhoods , Garment District , the east end of Hell's Kitchens , Midtown Manhattan, and the Theater District , before turning into Columbus Circle at 59th Street flows out.
North of Columbus Circle, the street is called Central Park West , which runs along Central Park - not a one-way street on this section. North of Frederick Douglass Circle at 110th Street , the avenue is then called Frederick Douglass Boulevard , although unofficially it is still sometimes referred to as 8th Avenue here. Fredrick Douglass Boulevard ends near the Harlem River on Harlem River Drive at about 159th Street . Although the avenue has different names on different sections, it is actually a continuous street.
Local transport
The IND Eighth Avenue Line , a subway line of the New York City Subway, runs under 8th Avenue . It is through the lines 
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Social & cultural
Since the 1990s, the part of Eighth Avenue that runs through Greenwich Village and the adjoining Chelsea neighborhood has become a hub of the gay scene - with bars and restaurants for gay men. New York's Gay Pride Parade takes place annually on the section of Eighth Avenue that runs through Greenwich Village.
To the north of this, Eighth Avenue was New York's informal red-light district in the late 1960s and in the 1970s and 1980s, along with Times Square from 42nd Street to 50th Street . A controversial redevelopment of the area during the tenure of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani made this section more family-friendly.
Attractions
The following attractions can be found on 8th Avenue or max. one block away:
- The Chelsea Hotel on 23rd Street between Seventh Avenue and Eighth Avenue
- The Fashion Institute of Technology on 26th Street / 27th Street
- Madison Square Garden and Penn Station (between 31st Street and 33rd Street )
- James Farley Post Office
- The New York Times Tower on 40th Street
- The Port Authority Bus Terminal (between 40th and 42nd Streets)
- One Worldwide Plaza
- Hearst Tower
- The Soros Foundation and Open Society Institute are headquartered on West 59th Street
- At 111 Eighth Avenue is an Art Deco building of the Port Authority's former Inland Freight Terminal - the eighth largest commercial building in Manhattan, which is also Google's east coast headquarters .
- The St. Urban is an exclusive, traditional Beaux-Arts building on W89th Street.
- The Dakota (also called Dakota Building), an apartment block with famous residents.
Individual evidence
- ^ David W. Dunlap: Commercial Real Estate; Behemoth of a Building Is Set for a Tenant Influx . The New York Times , November 19, 1997, accessed March 20, 2012
