125th Street (Manhattan)

The 125th Street crosses New York City borough of Manhattan. It is considered a main street in Harlem and is also Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard called.

Location and History

East of Morningside Avenue to 125th Street runs straight from West to East Harlem until the feeder of the FDR Drive on the East River and the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge is.

To the west of Morningside Avenue to 125th on the old Manhattan Avenue was continued. They run in a north - westerly direction diagonally through the Manhattanville and Morningside Heights neighborhood until after the intersection with 130th Street to the Henry Hudson Parkway feeder on the Hudson River is. This reallocation of Manhattan Avenue in the 125th Street came after the old 125th Street west of Morningside Avenue had to give large blocks of flats for people with low incomes. What 's left of the old 125th Street in this area is now called La Salle Street, extending from Amsterdam Avenue to Claremont Avenue.

Many sections of the road have been gentrified since the late 1990s and upgraded with stores like MAC Cosmetics, Old Navy, H & M, CVS / pharmacy or the Magic Johnson theater (cinema). Here is also the famous Apollo Theater. In collaboration with the neighborhood and the city development plan for the 125th Street corridor has been established. The aim is to expand its strengths as a space for art and culture.

The proposal to change the function of the 125th Street in Harlem a kind of trans - city highway (Trans - Harlem Expressway) faded away, as the funding for the proposed 125th Street Hudson River bridge has been removed.

Geology

A grave breach in the Earth's crust runs under the road and as the 125th Street Fault (English rot, warp ') respectively. This created a fault valley deep enough that the IRT Broadway - Seventh Avenue Line between 122nd Street and 135th Street needs a trestle bridge. In the 18th century the street was here called The Hollow Way ( The sunken road ).

Transport

The following links to the New York subway are located along the 125th Street ( from West to East ):

The Metro-North Railroad station, the Harlem - 125th Street at Park Avenue.

Memorable people

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton has an office at 125th Street.

Pop culture

In the song, I'm Waiting for the Man on the groundbreaking debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico the band Velvet Underground Lou Reed sings about waiting for a heroin drug dealer near the intersection of 125th Street and Lexington Avenue.