59th Street (Manhattan)

The 59th Street crossing from West to East New York City borough of Manhattan. It is also the border between Midtown Manhattan in the south and Upper Manhattan to the north.

Location and History

The 59th Street runs from York Avenue and Sutton Place on West Side Highway with a break between Ninth Avenue / Columbus Avenue and Eighth Avenue / Central Park West for the Time Warner Center.

On the south side of Central Park traffic flows in both directions. In this section, ie, the 59th Street Central Park South. The part between Ninth Avenue and Eleventh Avenue / West End Avenue, however, is a one-way street (west). The part between Fifth Avenue and Second Avenue runs well as a one-way street (east).

At the Second Avenue to 59th Street branches off the Queensboro Bridge from, which is often referred to as the 59th Street Bridge, although the 59th Street after that continues towards the east - to the York Avenue / Sutton Place.

The Avenues west of Central Park are north of 59th Street is no longer numbered, but there are other names. So then that means the 8th Avenue Central Park West, from the 9th Avenue is Columbus Avenue, from 10th Avenue is Amsterdam Avenue and from 11th Avenue is the West End Avenue.

Attractions

  • Roosevelt Iceland Tramway along Second Avenue
  • Bloomingdale's department store on Lexington Avenue
  • Bloomberg World Headquarters / One Beacon Court / LeCerq between 3rd Avenue and Lexington Avenue
  • General Motors Building on Fifth Avenue
  • The Plaza Hotel on Fifth Avenue
  • Central Park
  • Grand Army Plaza
  • Trump International Hotel and Tower at Columbus Circle
  • 2 Columbus Circle
  • Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle
  • St. Luke's - Roosevelt Hospital Center on 10th Avenue
  • The IRT Powerhouse occupies an entire block between 58th Street and 59th Street and from 11th to 12th Avenues.
  • Hudson River Park extends along the Hudson River from Battery Park to 59th Street.
  • 59E59 Theaters is an Off-Broadway theater complex between Park Avenue and Madison Avenues
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