Second Avenue (Manhattan)
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| city | New York City |
| Borough | Manhattan |
| Connecting roads |
128th Street Chrystie Street |
| Cross streets | 1st Street to 127th Street |
| Numbering system | Orientation numbering |
| use | |
| User groups | Individual traffic , omnibus , bicycle traffic |
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| Street length | approx. 10 km |
The Second Avenue is a street on the East Side of the borough Manhattan in New York City , USA .
location
Second Avenue runs as a one-way street in a north-south direction from 128th Street in the north to Houston Street in the south. A left-hand bike lane closes a gap in the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway between 55th Street and 34th Street . This then continues south to Houston Street.
Second Avenue crosses a number of Manhattan neighborhoods (north to south): Spanish Harlem , Yorkville , Upper East Side , Lenox Hill , Midtown East , Tudor City , Murray Hill , Kips Bay , Gramercy Park, and East Village .
history
In the southern part of Second Avenue, in the Lower East Side, there were many Yiddish theaters at the beginning of the 20th century , so that Second Avenue was known as "Yiddish Broadway" . Though these theaters are no longer there, many traces of Jewish immigrant culture can still be found such as kosher delicatessen and bakeries and the famous Second Avenue Deli , which closed in 2006 and later reopened on East 33rd Street.
The elevated IRT Second Avenue Line (the "El") ran north of 23rd Street the entire length of Second Avenue from 1880 to June 13, 1942. South of Second Avenue, the elevated railway ran over First Avenue to Allen Street and Division Street .
Elevated railways were noisy and spread a lot of dirt as they were still operated by steam locomotives in the 19th century . This depressed land prices along Second Avenue in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This was in part the reason why mostly apartment buildings for the working class were built along the elevated railway during this period . By the time the elevated railway was finally demolished in 1942, it was already derelict and obsolete, and the cost of World War II made it impossible to maintain. To this day, Second Avenue has retained its humble architectural character - despite the fact that it runs through a number of high-income areas.
A subway line ( Second Avenue Subway ) has been planned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority since 1919 . A subway under Second Avenue would relieve congestion on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line , which is currently the only line in Manhattan that runs along the East Side. A few short sections of the new metro line have been completed over the years, some elements of which serve other metro lines - e.g. B. Grand Street Station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line . Other sections are empty underground - such as the unused upper floor of the Second Avenue stop on the IND Sixth Avenue Line . Some sections have been leased from time to time to the New York Telephone Company (NYTel) so that they can lay the main lines for north-south communications in Manhattan, which run under Second Avenue. The further expansion of the new underground line began on April 12, 2007. In 2017, a section from 72nd Street to 96th Street was opened and operated with Line Q. After all, this subway line is said to extend on 2nd Avenue from 125th Street to the Financial District .
The Sparks Steak House (address: 210 East 46th Street), in front of which Mafia boss Paul Castellano was murdered in 1985, is located between Second and Third Avenue .
literature
- Nina Warnke: Second Avenue. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 5: Pr-Sy. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2014, ISBN 978-3-476-02505-0 , pp. 406-412.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ OpenStreetMap. Retrieved March 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Staff. "Second Avenue 'El' Coming to a stop" , The Christian Science Monitor , June 13, 1942 accessed October 12, 2008
- ^ Draft Environmental Statement - Second Avenue Subway, Route 132-C , accessed March 14, 2012