Tenth Avenue (Manhattan)
The Tenth Avenue (also: 10th Avenue - north of 59th Street Amsterdam Avenue ) is a thoroughfare on the New York's West Side, where it joins the south of the Borough of Manhattan with its north.
Location and History
The Tenth Avenue runs along the West Side of Manhattan from south to north through the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, Hell's Kitchen and then as Amsterdam Avenue through the Upper West Side, Harlem and Washington Heights.
It rises along with the Eleventh Avenue at the corner of Gansevoort Street in the West Village and the Meatpacking District. At the southernmost section ( four blocks south of 14th Street ) runs the Tenth Avenue as a one way street heading south. North of 14th Street 10th Avenue runs one-way street for a distance of 45 blocks north, until it is the West 59th Street crosses and subsequently renamed Amsterdam Avenue - as the other avenues of the Upper West Side.
The Amsterdam Avenue continues to develop as a one-way street heading north to 110th Street, after passing the traffic in both directions. Between the 110th and 113th Street, the street is called temporary " Cathedral Parkway ", as there is in this corner of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine on Amsterdam Avenue. The road narrows between 184th Street and 186th Street on each one lane in both directions, as she traverses the Yeshiva University 's Wilf Campus.
Overall, the Tenth Avenue extends under the name Amsterdam Avenue 129 blocks north until it reaches the Highbridge Park at West 190th Street. Here it is briefly renamed again - in Fort George Avenue. The Highbridge Park interrupts the Avenue. Just north of the park she sits under the name of 10th Avenue from the Dyckman Street and the end of the Harlem River Drive almost a mile further north. Almost at the northern end of Manhattan, then ends the 10th Avenue at the intersection of West 218th Street and Broadway, U.S. Route already called here 9 - near the Broadway Bridge that crosses the Harlem River.
The south section of the interruption by the Highbridge Park covers a total of 177 blocks, making it the longest uninterrupted section of the Avenues in Manhattan. Prior to 2007, the Broadway was even longer, but was subsequently divided into several sub-sections in Midtown Manhattan.
History
The district of the West Side, which crosses the 10th Avenue, were during much of the 20th century neighborhood of the working class and poor people.
The road was long known for heavy traffic. Here ran railroad tracks in the early 20th century. In the 19th century, when the West Side Line which ran along Tenth Avenue, a " Tenth Avenue Cowboy" was being paid vorauszureiten with a horse tram to warn people of the approaching tram. This line was later converted into a high orbit above the Tenth Avenue.
After Sarah Feirsteins book " Naming New York ," was the renaming of 10th Avenue in " Amsterdam Avenue " north of 59th Street is a tribute to the Dutch roots of the first colony of Manhattan in the 17th century. Originally called today's Amsterdam Avenue in the Commissioners ' plan of 1811, which laid down the street grid of a large part of Manhattan, 10th Avenue. It was opened in 1816 by the 59th Street to Fort George Avenue in the north. In 1890 it was renamed. The new name of the Avenue underlined the assertion of investors that this section would be the "New Town" ( " New City " ) and a new Nieuw Amsterdam.
During the real estate boom of the late 20th century was one of the most expensive residential areas of New York City Amsterdam Avenue between 59th Street and 100th Street.
Tenth Avenue in theater, film & literature
The musical " On Your Toes " by Rodgers and Hart in 1936 includes the funny dance number Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, which was then danced by Ray Bolger and Tamara Geva. It has also been adapted for film and television and danced in the movie " On Your Toes " by Eddie Albert and Vera Zorina. This dance number was also listed by the New York City Ballet. In the biographical musical Words and Music (1948 ) the "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue " ballet sequence from Gene Kelly and Vera -Ellen was dancing.
In the sitcom How I Met Your Mother, the main character, Ted Mosby lives near the corner of 75th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.
In the detective novels of the " Dortmunder " series by Donald E. Westlake is the fictional "OJ Bar and Grill ", the favorite meeting point of the transition, at the Amsterdam Avenue.
Attractions
- Cathedral of Saint John the Divine
- City College of New York
- Columbia University
- John Jay College of Criminal Justice
- LaGuardia High School
- New York Presbyterian Medical Center
- St. Luke's - Roosevelt Hospital Center
- Yeshiva University