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View from One World Trade Center. The Joe DiMaggio Highway, commonly called the West Side Highway and formerly the Miller Highway, is a 5.42-mile-long (8.72 km) mostly surface section of New York State Route 9A (NY 9A), running from West 72nd Street along the Hudson River to the southern tip of Manhattan in New York City. [2]
The Henry Hudson Parkway is a 10.95-mile (17.62 km) controlled-access parkway in New York City. The southern terminus is in Manhattan at 72nd Street, where the parkway continues south as the West Side Highway. [3] It is often erroneously referred to as the West Side Highway throughout its entire course in Manhattan.
By 1960, an extension of the West Side Elevated Highway south to the Manhattan tunnel portal became part of NY 27A, [25] which had ended in Brooklyn prior to the construction of the tunnel. [26] On January 1, 1970, NY 27A was truncated on its western end to eastern Nassau County while NY 27 was extended northward over NY 27A's former routing ...
West Side Highway looking north at Gansevoort Street. The collapsed section (removed) is shown at left behind frieze. Looking north at Canal Street. The West Side Elevated Highway (West Side Highway or Miller Highway, named for Julius Miller, Manhattan borough president from 1922 to 1930) was an elevated section of New York State Route 9A (NY 9A) running along the Hudson River in the New York ...
The project was completed shortly after the opening of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel in 1950, and provides direct access between the West Side Highway and FDR Drive. [ 5 ] In 2005, during the reconstruction of NY 9A , the western end of the Battery Park Underpass was extended to the north by about 25 feet (7.6 m) to provide a U-turn lane and ...
40th–42nd Streets to NY 9A (West Side Highway) – Uptown, Theater District: Southbound exit and northbound entrance; access via Dyer Avenue north: 0.6: 0.97: West 39th Street: Exit and entrance from North Tube: 0.7: 1.1: West 40th Street / Galvin Avenue – Port Authority Bus Terminal: Northbound entrance to North Tube: 0.8: 1.3: NY 495 west ...
Downtown Brooklyn. Bridge Plaza/RAMBO; DUMBO. Fulton Ferry; Fort Greene; Prospect Heights. Pacific Park/Atlantic Yards; Vinegar Hill; South Brooklyn – takes its name from the geographical position of the original town of Brooklyn, which today includes the neighborhoods listed above under the heading "northwestern Brooklyn." It is not located ...
The West Side of Manhattan refers to the side of Manhattan Island that abuts the Hudson River and faces the U.S. state of New Jersey.The major neighborhoods on the West Side are (from north to south) Inwood, Hudson Heights, Washington Heights, West Harlem, Morningside Heights, Manhattan Valley, the Upper West Side, Hell's Kitchen, Chelsea, the West Village, SoHo, and Tribeca.