110th Street (Manhattan)

Coordinates: 40°47′57″N 73°57′17″W / 40.799261°N 73.954602°W / 40.799261; -73.954602
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For other places with the same name, see 110th Street (disambiguation).

Map

The elevated railroad, pictured in 1915, reached its highest elevation in New York City at the 110th Street curve.
Fifth Avenue
Lincoln Correctional Facility
Frederick Douglass Circle
110th Street seen from Broadway in the west toward Riverside Park

110th Street is a street in the

Frederick Douglass Boulevard and Riverside Drive
, it is co-signed as Cathedral Parkway.

Route

110th Street is an eastbound street between

Fifth Avenue
is westbound. West of Fifth Avenue, the road widens to accommodate two-way traffic.

The

Museum for African Art
.

110th Street crosses

Frederick Douglass Boulevard at the northwest corner of Central Park, Frederick Douglass Circle. West of there it is called Cathedral Parkway after the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.[2]

The Parkway forms the south edge of

Amsterdam Avenue, and ends at Riverside Drive before Riverside Park
.

Central Park North

For the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis album, see Central Park North (album).

Central Park North is a section of West 110th Street. As the name implies, it lies at the northern end of Central Park. It is bounded by

Young Women's Hebrew Association
—stands a few blocks away from new luxury condo developments.

Central Park North has three of the original gates of Central Park. Farmers Gate is located at the southern end of Lenox Avenue/Malcolm X Boulevard, while Warriors Gate is located at the southern end of Seventh Avenue/Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard. Pioneers Gate is at Fifth Avenue (Duke Ellington Circle).

The original

New York Gothams
—subsequently the Giants—from 1883 to 1888.

In the first decade of the 21st century, there was significant

Central Park South."[6] The rebirth of Harlem along Central Park north had attracted celebrities such as Marcia Gay Harden, Maya Angelou, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.[7] The finished building was 20 stories tall with 48 residential units, 9,500 of ground floor retail space, 48 parking spaces, and each unit had a view of Central Park.[8]

Notable places

Transportation

The elevated IRT Ninth Avenue Line used to reach a great height at its 110th Street station, before its demolition in 1940; it was infamous as a suicide location.[9][10] Today, there are four New York City Subway stations on 110th Street:

110th Street is served by the

New York City Bus routes.[11]

The

Park Avenue, which now carries the Park Avenue main line of the Metro-North Railroad. The station opened in 1876[12][13] and closed in 1906.[14]

West 110th Street is the southern boundary of the area where boro cabs may be hailed by passengers.[15]

Notable people

George Gershwin lived in 501 West 110th Street, on the northwest corner of 110th and Amsterdam, where he composed his seminal piece Rhapsody in Blue.[16] Arthur Miller lived in 45 West 110th Street as a child.[17]

In popular culture

References

Note

  1. ^ Duke Ellington Memorial Dedicated in Harlem, artnet. Accessed September 16, 2007.
  2. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved December 13, 2019.
  3. ^ Morningside Park, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Accessed August 3, 2008.
  4. ^ Taylor, Candace (July 10, 2008). "Gourmet Market's Opening Signals Shift in East Harlem". The New York Sun. Retrieved November 2, 2009. A decade ago, however, the area had a reputation as one of the most dangerous and economically depressed in the city, Louis Dubin, the CEO of the developer of 111 Central Park North, the Athena Group, said.
  5. ^ Padalka, Alex; Stabile, Tom (February 2007). "Keeping Up with the New York Region's Leading Developers". New York Construction. Retrieved November 2, 2009. Principals: Louis Dubin, president, CEO; Lee Saltzman, COO; Barry Seidel, executive vice president
  6. ^ Keil, Braden (July 16, 2004). "Harlem High-Rise Planned". Wired New York. Retrieved November 2, 2009. The Post has learned that luxury condominium builder, The Athena Group, has bought three property parcels at the northwest corner of Central Park North and Lenox Ave.
  7. ^ Schoeneman, Deborah (May 21, 2005). "Above It All–Central Park North always had great views—and few takers. But the secret is finally getting out". New York. Retrieved November 3, 2009. "We call it Upper Manhattan," says developer Louis Dubin of the Athena Group. Dubin recently bought the shopping center at the corner of Central Park North and Lenox Avenue, and hopes—pending a construction-hardship variance—to build seventeen stories of condos there selling for $450,000 to $2 million.
  8. ^ Stoler, Michael (December 4, 2006). "The Tale of Three Harlems". The New York Sun. Retrieved November 2, 2009. Approximately 30% of the units have been presold, including a complete floor of 5,200 square feet, for $6.6 million, or approximately $1,200 per square foot,' the president of the Athena Group, Louis Dubin, told my class at the New York University Real Estate Institute last week
  9. ISBN 0-7864-2030-8
    . (110th St station popular for suicides: p. 170).
  10. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  11. ^ "Manhattan Bus Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. July 2019. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  12. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved June 21, 2017.
  13. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved June 21, 2017.
  14. ^ "N. Y. Central Closes 110th Street Station". Buffalo Evening News. June 13, 1906. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
  15. ^ "Taxis · NYC311". Portal.311.nyc.gov. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
  16. ISBN 978-0-520-93314-9
    .
  17. ISBN 978-0-252-07854-5
    .

External links

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