Seventh Avenue (Manhattan)
The Seventh Avenue is a wide thoroughfare, the New York City borough Manhattan crosses. It is 5.3 kilometers long and runs in a north-south direction.
Between West 26th Street and 42nd Street , it is also called Fashion Avenue .
Seventh Avenue begins in the West Village on Clarkson Street (near James J Walker Park ) where Varick Street becomes Seventh Avenue South. It later crosses Christopher Street and Greenwich Avenue . Behind Times Square, Seventh Avenue is interrupted by Central Park - 59th Street forms the southern boundary of the park. North of Central Park it is called Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (named after the politician and civil rights activist Adam Clayton Powell Jr. ). She also crosses the Harlem River via the bridgeMacomb's Dam Bridge and leads to the Harlem neighborhood .
history
The construction of Seventh Avenue had already been decided in the commissioner's plan of 1811 . In the early part of the 20th century, the southern portion of Seventh Avenue was known as Eleventh Street in Greenwich Village. In September 1911 the road was extended to better serve Greenwich Village. A not inconsiderable number of buildings were destroyed for this (including the Bedford Street Methodist Church from 1840). With the extension, what is now known as Tribeca was better served. It also made possible the expansion of the New York City Subway , which opened in 1918.
Important neighborhoods and buildings
South of 14th Street , Seventh Avenue serves as the major access road to the West Village . The former Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center was one of the most important downtown hospitals on Seventh Avenue and 11th Street.
The street runs through the Garment District and is called Fashion Avenue in sections . This is to emphasize the importance of New York as a fashion metropolis.
Seventh Avenue intersects Broadway and 42nd Street in Times Square .
Major buildings on Seventh Avenue include:
- Carnegie Hall , 57th Street
- Madison Square Garden and Penn Station , 32nd Street
- Fashion Institute of Technology , 27th Street
- Alwyn Court Apartments, 58th Street
- AXA Center (original: The Equitable Tower ), on 51st Street .
- The Chelsea Hotel on 23rd Street between Eighth Avenue and Seventh Avenue
In culture
Seventh Avenue is mentioned in books, plays, and films:
- Seventh Avenue is mentioned in the Simon and Garfunkel song "The Boxer".
- Seventh Avenue is mentioned in the play A Thousand Clowns (1962) and the 1965 film adaptation.
- Seventh Avenue is mentioned in the song "The Boston Rag" by Steely Dan (1973).
- In the song "Shattered" by the Rolling Stones , Seventh Avenue is mentioned.
- Seventh Avenue is also mentioned in Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon .
- Seventh Avenue was the title of a 1977 television show produced by NBC. The content was about events in the Garment District.
- In the song New York City Boy by Pet Shop Boys Seventh Avenue is mentioned.
- Woody Allen mentioned Seventh Avenue in his 2003 movie Anything Else .
Web links
- New York Songlines: Seventh Avenue , a virtual tour
Footnotes
- ^ Staff (March 22, 1914) "Wreckers Busy in Old Greenwich" , The New York Times
- ^ Staff (Sept. 24, 1911) "Seventh Avenue Extension Will Create Great Business Revival in Old Greenwich" The New York Times
- ^ Staff (July 2, 1918) "Open New Subway to Regular Traffic" , The New York Times
- ^ Nemy, Enid. (June 8, 1972) "Everybody - Well, Almost - Attended A Mammoth Party on 'Fashion Ave." " The New York Times
- ^ "Seventh Avenue" (1977) Internet Movie Database