Avenue A (Manhattan)

The Avenue A is a street in southeastern New York City borough of Manhattan.

Location and History

Of the Avenues, which are denoted by letters, is the Avenue A in the East Village, the westernmost and at the same time the western boundary of Tompkins Square Park as well as the district Alphabet City, which the Avenues A, B, and C owes its name.

The Avenue A runs from Houston Street south to 14th Street in the north, where it ends in a loop in Stuyvesant Town ( 14th Street Loop), which connects the Avenue A and Avenue B. South of Houston Street, the Avenue A continues as Essex Street.

History

By the Commissioners ' plan of 1811, which regulated the street grid north of 14th Street in Manhattan, the avenues were usually numbered - starting with First Avenue on the East Side until finally the Twelfth Avenue on the West Side. East of First Avenue offered the Commissioners ' Plan identifies four additional lettered " numbered " avenues - from Avenue A west to Avenue D.

During the First Avenue is usually the easternmost Avenue Manhattan, are north of Alphabet City still several broken parts of Avenue A: A short stretch of Avenue A 1947 built over Stuyvesant Town -Peter Cooper Village. North of it it is called today Asser Levy Place. And today's Sutton Place was once called Avenue A to Effingham B. Sutton, in 1875 a number of houses - so-called Brownstones - between 57th and 58th Street was built, making the road section finally got its name ( first identified in an issue of The New York Times in 1883 ). The New York City Council approved submit an application to rename the block between 57th and 60th Street from " Avenue A " in " Sutton Place". 1928, the northernmost block of Sutton Place between 59th Street and 60th Street and the entire north subsequent section of Avenue A to 92nd Street at York Avenue were renamed - in honor of the U.S. Army Sergeants Alvin York, the Medal of Honor for his efforts received in the Meuse -Argonne offensive in World War I on October 8, 1918.

The northernmost part of the Avenue A extends between 114th Street and 120th Street in East Harlem and was renamed in 1879 in Pleasant Avenue.

Transport

The M14A bus goes across the whole Avenue A.