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145th Street is a major crosstown street in the Harlem neighborhood, in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is one of the 15 crosstown streets mapped out 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.
This is a list of neighborhoods in the New York City borough of Manhattan arranged geographically from the north of the island to the south. The following approximate definitions are used: Upper Manhattan is the area above 96th Street. Midtown Manhattan is the area between 34th Street and 59th Street. Lower Manhattan is the area below 14th Street.
Fodor's Flashmaps New York, 1991; Fodor's See It New York City, 2004, ISBN 1-4000-1387-9; Valentine's Manual of Old New York / No. 7, Ed. Henry Collins Brown, Pub. Valentine's Manual Inc. 1922; Further reading. Bowery by Forgotten NY – images, descriptions, and history; East Village History Project Bowery research – in-depth, lot by lot ...
The Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York is a 1902 book by Hutchins Hapgood; Novels. Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto by Abraham Cahan. The film Hester Street is based on the book. [123] Salome of the Tenements by Anzia Yezierska, published in 1923 [124] Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska [125] Jews without Money by ...
The New York City Board of Transportation (NYCBOT) gave preliminary approval to several lines in Manhattan, including one on Eighth Avenue, on December 9, 1924. The main portion of the already-approved Washington Heights Line—the mostly-four track line north of 64th Street—was included, but was to continue north from 193rd Street to 207th ...
[33] [34] In January 2018, the New York City Transit and Bus Committee recommended that Citnalta-Forte receives the $125 million contract for the renovations of 167th and 174th–175th Streets on the IND Concourse Line and 145th Street on the IRT Lenox Avenue Line. [35]
The 145th Street station opened on October 27, 1904, as the northern terminal station of the original 28-station New York City Subway line to City Hall. [2] [4]: 186 The line was subsequently extended one stop to 157th Street in December 1904, [12]: 191 and ultimately was extended to 242nd Street in the Bronx in 1908. [13]: 191 [14]
The Houston Bowery Wall, also known simply as the Bowery Wall, is a mural wall owned by Goldman Properties [1] in the East Village and NoHo neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. The concrete wall, on Houston St and the intersection of the Bowery , had been a popular graffiti spot in the early 1980s, when street artist Keith Haring ...