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The Park Avenue Tunnel, also called the Murray Hill Tunnel, is a 1,600-foot-long (488 m) tunnel that passes under seven blocks of Park Avenue in Murray Hill, in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Traffic used to travel northbound from 33rd Street toward the Park Avenue Viaduct.
The Park Avenue main line originates at Grand Central Terminal to the south, which is located at 42nd Street.It consists of various train yards and interlockings between 42nd and 59th Streets consisting of 47 tracks between 45th and 51st Streets, 10 tracks from 51st to 57th Streets, [3]: 116 and then finally narrows to four tracks at 59th Street.
Opened in 1927, the Holland Tunnel was the world's first mechanically ventilated underwater vehicular tunnel. The Brooklyn Bridge , Williamsburg Bridge , George Washington Bridge , and Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge were the world's longest suspension bridges when opened in 1883, [ 2 ] 1903, [ 3 ] 1931, [ 4 ] and 1964 [ 5 ] respectively.
Park Avenue Tunnel may refer to: Park Avenue main line , railroad line with a tunnel section carrying Metro-North Railroad Park Avenue Tunnel (railroad) , a railroad tunnel under Park Avenue in the Upper East Side, in New York City
Park Avenue Railroad Tunnel, Metro-North Railroad, Upper East Side, Manhattan; Queens–Midtown Tunnel, I-495 under East River between Midtown Manhattan and Queens; Riverside Park Tunnel, Amtrak/Metro-North Railroad, Manhattan; Other tunnels in New York State: New York City water supply system tunnels 1 and 2; New York City Water Tunnel No. 3
From 47th to 97th Streets, the tracks for Metro-North Railroad's Park Avenue main line run in the Park Avenue Tunnel underneath Park Avenue. At 97th Street, the tracks come above ground, rising onto the other Manhattan structure known as the Park Avenue Viaduct.
The underground Brooklyn Heights craft cocktail lounge may not be accessible by an active subway, but La Boudoir boasts a back room connected to the storied Atlantic Avenue tunnel — the ...
A tunnel cavern deep under Park Avenue, to the north of the new LIRR station, which now houses a switch. Work on the Manhattan side included building a new 8-track train station with storage tracks extending to 38th Street. [45]: 1 (PDF p. 2) [28]: 3 North of the station, the tunnels would connect to the 63rd Street Tunnel's lower level.