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Sixth Avenue Electronics was a Springfield, New Jersey–based retail chain of consumer electronics stores, with locations in New Jersey and New York.The company was founded by Billy and Leon Temiz on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue in New York City in 1984, though following litigation in the early 2000s, the company eventually came to be owned by Billy and their youngest brother, Mike, after which ...
Sixth Avenue, also known as Avenue of the Americas, is a major thoroughfare in the New York City borough of Manhattan.The avenue is commercial for much of its length, and traffic runs northbound, or uptown.
The Sixth Avenue Line was a public transit line in Manhattan, New York City, running mostly along Sixth Avenue from Lower Manhattan to Central Park.Originally a streetcar line and later a bus route, it has been absorbed into the M5 bus route, which replaced the Broadway Line, as its northbound direction.
6 + 1 ⁄ 2 Avenue looking north from 51st Street 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 Avenue and West 51st Street in Manhattan Restaurant using the west half of the avenue. 6½ Avenue is a north-south pedestrian passageway [1] [2] in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, running from West 51st to West 57th Streets between Sixth and Seventh Avenues.
32 Avenue of the Americas (also known as the AT&T Long Lines Building, AT&T Building, or 32 Sixth Avenue) is a 27-story, 549-foot-tall (167 m) telecommunications building in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.
A base station atop the building was used on April 3, 1973, by Martin Cooper to make the world's first handheld cellular phone call in public. Cooper, a Motorola inventor, called rival Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs to tell him about the invention.
After the opening of the original subway line, operated by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), the New York City government began planning new lines. As part of the proposed Tri-borough system, both the IRT and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT; later the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation or BMT) wished to develop an east–west line under 14th Street in Manhattan.
The IRT Sixth Avenue Line, often called the Sixth Avenue Elevated or Sixth Avenue El, was the second elevated railway in Manhattan in New York City, following the Ninth Avenue Elevated.