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The Mayfair Club was a cardroom in New York City. Originally starting as a bridge and backgammon club, it eventually became "the most touted card club in New York" until its abrupt closing by authorities in 2000. [1] Unlike the other gamehalls in the city, the Mayfair Club kept a low profile in a basement.
The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan at Canal Street with Downtown Brooklyn at the Flatbush Avenue Extension. Designed by Leon Moisseiff and built by the Phoenix Bridge Company , the bridge has a total length of 6,855 ft (2,089 m).
Harry J. Fishbein (April 18, 1897 – February 19, 1976) was an American bridge player and club owner. [1] He used to be a professional basketball player. In teams-of-four competition, Fishbein was a runner-up for the world championship in the 1959 Bermuda Bowl, playing on the United States team in a three-way round-robin among Europe, North America, and South America representatives. [2]
5 lanes of roadway (2 Manhattan-bound, 3 Brooklyn-bound) Oldest suspension bridge in NYC. Also oldest suspension/cable-stayed hybrid bridge. Manhattan Bridge: 1909: 6,854 2,089: 7 lanes of roadway and trains: Double-decker bridge with 5 westbound lanes and 2 eastbound lanes. 3 of the westbound lanes and the subway are below the other 4 lanes.
Tunnel was in The Terminal Warehouse Central Stores Building (view from Eleventh Avenue; Tunnel's entrance was on Twelfth Avenue). Lobby. Tunnel was a nightclub located at 220 Twelfth Avenue, in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. [1]
During the first phase of the Manhattan Bridge rehabilitation, from April 26, 1986 to December 11, 1988, [3] the shuttle was extended to 57th Street/Sixth Avenue, running via the Sixth Avenue local tracks, and was called the Sixth Avenue Shuttle while the B and D terminated at 34th Street–Herald Square. Regular service had been expected to ...
[17] [18] Use of the existing tunnel was considered as an option because the Montague Street Tunnel had surplus capacity, having carried the M train until its reroute from the BMT Nassau Street Line to the IND Sixth Avenue Line in 2010, and the N train during the reconstruction of the Manhattan Bridge from 1986 until 2004. [19] [20]
The Manhattan Bridge connection eliminated a bottleneck where trains using three of the four BMT Southern Division lines from Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue, were forced to use the Manhattan Bridge or the Montague Street Tunnel before going onto the BMT Broadway Line to Midtown Manhattan (or onto the Nassau Street Loop).