Saint Nicholas Avenue
The Saint Nicholas Avenue is a major street in New York City district of Manhattan, USA.
Location and History
The Saint Nicholas Avenue runs north to south between the 193rd Street and 111th Street. She passes through the Washington Heights, Harlem, Hamilton Heights and Inwood neighborhood. The St. Nicholas Avenue is the border between the west side of Harlem and Central Harlem. Although Harlem extends general assessment from the East River to the Hudson River, the area west of St. Nicholas Avenue is not always counted as part of Harlem.
North of 169th Street St. Nicholas Avenue is adapted to the street grid of Manhattan: From the 170th Street it runs parallel to the eastern Audubon Avenue and 173rd Street from the parallel to the westerly Wadsworth Avenue. South of 169th Street runs through the St. Nicholas Avenue diagonally to Manhattan's street grid. It crosses the Amsterdam Avenue at 162nd Street and continues diagonally up to the West 148th Street. South of 148th Street is the St. Nicholas Avenue approximately parallel to the Convent Avenue, which runs on a block west to 124th Street.
South of 124th Street, St. Nicholas Avenue makes a hard diagonal crease, crosses the Frederick Douglass Boulevard at 121st Street, the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard at 116th Street and ends at the Lenox Avenue just north of Central Park. This deviation from the regular street grid of the Commissioners ' plan of 1811 explained by the fact that the road existed since the 17th century and part of the Boston Post Road was.
The intersection of St. Nicholas Avenue and Broadway at 167 Street forms Mitchell Square Park.
History
From the earliest days of the colonial period and until the end of the 19th century the street had the name Harlem Lane. They say they would have followed an old Indian trail that Weekquaeskeek said. The road linked Manhattan with the district Spuyten Duyvil in the Bronx. Between Marble Hill and Spuyten Duyvil there was the 1693 production asked Kingsbridge Spuyten Duyvil Creek on the. The Harlem Lane was also known as Kingsbridge Road and was part of the old Boston Post Road, which led from Lower Manhattan to New England.
Was named the St. Nicholas Avenue after Saint Nicholas of Myra, the patron saint of New Amsterdam since the time of the Dutch settlers.
In 2000, the road, the additional name " Juan Pablo Duarte Boulevard " was awarded for the section between Amsterdam Avenue / West 162nd Street and the junction with the West 193rd Street and Fort George Hill by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. The nickname was bestowed in honor of Juan Pablo Duarte, one of the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic.
Transport
The IND Eighth Avenue Line runs under the St. Nicholas Avenue north of 123rd Street and is sometimes referred to as St. Nicholas Avenue Line.