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Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The avenue stretches southward from West 143rd Street in Harlem to Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. The section in Midtown Manhattan is one of the most expensive shopping streets in the world. [3]
1946 map of the Pan-American Highway (outside the United States) The concept of an overland route from one tip of the Americas to the other was originally proposed as a railroad. In 1884 the U.S. Congress passed a law with a plan to build an inter-American rail system. [3]
NY 27 begins at exit 24 of I-278 (the Gowanus Expressway) in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City.For the first stretch through Brooklyn, NY 27 runs along the Prospect Expressway — a sunken six-lane freeway through the Park Slope and Windsor Terrace neighborhoods — providing interchanges with Fourth Avenue, Seventh Avenue, and 11th Avenue.
The Eureka Tent & Awning Company was established prior to 1895 in Binghamton, New York. [2] The company's initial workshop on Binghamton's Commercial Avenue produced custom tents, awnings, wagon covers, horse blankets, and flags.
NY 111 north (Islip Avenue) Southern terminus of NY 111: East Islip: CR 17 north (Carleton Avenue) Southern terminus of CR 17; former NY 111: 15.90: 25.59: Heckscher State Parkway to NY 27 – New York, Heckscher Park: Exits 45W-E on Heckscher State Parkway: Great River: 17.31: 27.86: CR 85 east (Montauk Highway) Continuation east; former NY 27
The General Motors Building (also the GM Building) is a 50-story, 705 ft (215 m) office tower at 767 Fifth Avenue at Grand Army Plaza on the southeast corner of Central Park, in Manhattan, New York City.
The Charles Scribner's Sons Building, also known as 597 Fifth Avenue, is a commercial structure in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, on Fifth Avenue between 48th and 49th Streets. Designed by Ernest Flagg in a Beaux Arts style, it was built from 1912 to 1913 for the Scribner's Bookstore .
Along with 1020 Fifth Avenue and 998 Fifth Avenue, it is considered among the most luxurious and prestigious co-operative buildings on the Upper East Side. The asymmetrical roof, which is setback and clad in a pale yellow brick, has several tall arches whose openings were filled nicely with huge windows in the late 1990s in a remodeling of the ...