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The Fort Washington Avenue Armory, also known as the Fort Washington Armory, The Armory, and the 22nd Regiment Armory, is a historic 5,000-seat arena [3] and armory building located at 216 Fort Washington Avenue, between West 168th and 169th Streets, in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
(104th) One Hundred and Fourth Field Artillery / 168th Street-Jamaica Armory (1936) – 93-05 168th Street (between 93rd Avenue and Douglas Avenue), Jamaica Defunct (no longer exists): Flushing Guards / (17th) Seventeenth Separate Company / Amity Street Armory (1884) – 170 Amity Street (now Roosevelt Avenue, near Main Street) 2 , Flushing
The 168th Street station was a major transfer hub for interstate buses to New Jersey until the 1960s, when the nearby George Washington Bridge Bus Station opened; the last interstate bus stop was relocated in 1967. [81] By 1970, the 168th Street station on the Eighth Avenue Line was among the subway system's 12 worst bottlenecks for passenger ...
The Park Avenue Armory occupies the entire city block bounded by Park Avenue to the west, 67th Street to the north, Lexington Avenue to the east, and 66th Street to the south. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The land lot is rectangular and covers 81,336 sq ft (7,556 m 2 ), with a frontage of about 200 ft (61 m) on either avenue and about 405 ft (123 m) on either ...
Fort Washington Avenue Armory. March 2, 1995 : 216 Fort Washington Ave. (jct. with 168th St.) Washington Heights ... 344–373 123rd St., 481–553 Manhattan Ave. W side
Seventeen years later, Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation opened 168th Street Station on the Jamaica Elevated Line as a replacement, which existed until 1977. The vicinity of the station is now occupied by the 104th Field Artillery Armory building of the New York Army National Guard, which was built in 1933.
The first piece commissioned by Park Avenue Armory Conservancy was presented in 2009 by Ernesto Neto. [13] In 2020, the Park Avenue Armory Conservancy invited 10 New York City cultural institutions to commission 100 women artists to create new work that celebrates the ratification of the 19th Amendment. The program will be known as "100 Years ...
Unlike the 160th Street and Sutphin Boulevard stations, which were completely demolished in 1979, [11] 168th Street's former control tower, known as the "Station and Trainmen's Building", [12] still remains standing on the southeast corner of 165th Street and Jamaica Avenue. It sits inactive atop a block of storefronts.