145th Street (Manhattan)
40°49′25″N 73°56′38″W / 40.823634°N 73.943825°W
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145th Street is a major crosstown street in the
Commissioner's Plan of 1811 that established the numbered street grid in Manhattan.[1] It forms the southern border of the Sugar Hill
neighborhood within Harlem.
Description
145th Street starts on the West Side at the
Lenox Avenue, before crossing over the Harlem River Drive and then connecting to The Bronx over the Harlem River via the 145th Street Bridge
.
Transportation
The
Bx19 traverses 145th Street from end-to-end, starting with a loop in Riverbank State Park and heading back to the Bronx over the 145th Street Bridge to the New York Botanical Garden.[2]
Subway stations are, west to east:
- Saint Nicholas Avenue
- Lenox Avenue
References
Notes
- ^ REMARKS OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR LAYING OUT STREETS AND ROADS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, UNDER THE ACT OF APRIL 3, 1807, accessed May 2, 2007. "These streets are all sixty feet wide except fifteen, which are one hundred feet wide, viz.: Numbers fourteen, twenty-three, thirty-four, forty-two, fifty-seven, seventy-two, seventy-nine, eighty-six, ninety-six, one hundred and six, one hundred and sixteen, one hundred and twenty-five, one hundred and thirty-five, one hundred and forty-five, and one hundred and fifty-five--the block or space between them being in general about two hundred feet."
- New York City Bus, effective September 2007. Accessed January 7, 2008.
External links
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