Ninth Avenue (Manhattan)

The Ninth Avenue ( north of West 59th Street: Columbus Avenue ) is a thoroughfare on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City.

Course

The Ninth Avenue is a one way street, so traffic here runs along the entire length to the south. It rises just south of West 14th Street to Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District and spans 45 blocks north to the intersection on the West 59th Street, where they - will be renamed - as the other avenues of the West Side. Henceforth, it is called '' Columbus Avenue '' by Christopher Columbus to the West 110th Street, where it is renamed again - this time in Morningside Drive, which runs north through Morningside Heights to 122nd Street. Later, the Ninth Avenue resurfaced in two short sections on: between the 201st and 208th Street and between 215th and 225th Street. 2008 Ninth Avenue was remodeled between 31st Street and 14th Street and created a bicycle lane on the west side of the street between the curb and the parking lane.

Appearance

North of Lincoln Square, where the corporate headquarters of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC ) is housed in a group reorganized and new buildings, the Columbus Avenue runs through the Central Park West Historic District of the 67th/68th Street to 89th Street. In this section it is presented in a unified streetscape from 5 - to 7 -storey apartment buildings with brick and sandstone facades and discreet neo-Romanesque and Italianate elements. The buildings are in the center of each block separated by very narrow access routes. The architectural unity of this road section came also the fact that in the construction of the building, a few developers were involved, which implemented the same design lines again and again. There are also on the Ninth Avenue also some apartment buildings that were built in the generous scale before the First World War. Next to mention is the former Endicott Hotel and a block of offices of McKim, Mead, and White at the 72nd Street.

District and institutions

Along Ninth Avenue, there are various districts like the Meatpacking District, Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen, the Upper West Side or Morningside Heights. Also found along the Ninth Avenue next to the hospital ( Roosevelt Hospital) educational institutions such as Fordham University and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Cultural highlights include the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the American Museum of Natural History. There are also several religious institutions at the Ninth Avenue as the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, the Church of the Holy Apostles and the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen.

Traffic

Traffic Technically, particularly the largest bus station in New York City, the Port Authority Bus Terminal, at the height of 41st Street and the only underground station on Ninth Avenue are important: the " 66th Street - Lincoln Center " (IRT Broadway - Seventh Avenue Line). From the 19th century on the wrong Ninth Avenue an elevated railway - the Ninth Avenue Elevated. It was acquired on April 1, 1903 by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company ( IRT). As of 1940, the city of New York took on the IRT, the operation of Ninth Avenue Evelated has been discontinued and dismantled the overhead railway.

Appreciation of the Ninth Avenue

The former President of the United States Bill Clinton initiated a project to revive the Ninth Avenue at the height of the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood.

Ninth Avenue in pop culture

In the TV show Seinfeld based street scenery, which was used for most street scenes, on the appearance of the Columbus Avenue.

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