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The Manhattan address algorithm is a series of formulas used to estimate the closest east–west cross street for building numbers on north–south avenues in the New York City borough of Manhattan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
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.
Ann Street – Ann White, wife of developer and merchant Capt. Thomas White; Astor Place and Astor Row – John Jacob Astor and other members of the Astor family, landowners [3] Baxter Street – Lt. Col. Charles Baxter, a hero of the Mexican War who was killed in Chapultepec in 1849. Bayard Street and Hester Street – Hester Bayard
In Manhattan and the Bronx, these took the form of dark blue "humpback signs" with white all-capital serifed text. The hump on the signs indicated the cross street with smaller letters; for example, if one were on Broadway and looking at the street sign for the intersection with 4th Street, the main portion of the sign would say "4th St." and ...
The Bowery began to rival Fifth Avenue as an address. [ 3 ] When Lafayette Street was opened parallel to the Bowery in the 1820s, the Bowery Theatre was founded by rich families on the site of the Red Bull Tavern, which had been purchased by Andrew Morris and John Jacob Astor ; it opened in 1826 and was the largest auditorium in North America ...
Pleasant Avenue is a north-south street in the East Harlem neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan.It begins at E. 114th Street and ends at E. 120th Street. The street was the northernmost section of Avenue A, which stretched from Alphabet City northward, and was added to the grid wherever space allowed between First Avenue and the East Ri
It crosses over the Trans-Manhattan Expressway at 178-179th Streets. The intersection of St. Nicholas with Broadway at 167th Street forms Mitchell Square Park. Below 169th Street, St. Nicholas Avenue cuts at a diagonal to much of the Manhattan street grid, crossing Amsterdam Avenue at 162nd Street and continuing against the grain to West 148th ...
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.