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Tompkins Square Park is a 10.5-acre (4.2 ha) public park in the Alphabet City section of the East Village. It is bounded on the north by 10th Street, on the east by Avenue B, on the south by 7th Street, and on the west by Avenue A. [ 177 ] Tompkins Square Park contains a baseball field, basketball courts, and two playgrounds. [ 178 ]
The East Village/Lower East Side Historic District in Lower Manhattan, New York City was created by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission on October 9, 2012. [1] It encompasses 330 buildings, mostly in the East Village neighborhood, primarily along Second Avenue between East 2nd and 6th Streets, and along the side streets.
The Jackie Gleason Depot, called the Fifth Avenue Depot until June 30, 1988, [5] [137] [138] [139] is located on the east side of Fifth Avenue between 36th and 39th Streets in Sunset Park, Brooklyn 137] just west of the 36th-38th Street Yard and Ninth Avenue station of the New York City Subway
Church of the Nativity(Manhattan) The current church The original painted-timber Greek Revival sanctuary was built in 1832 at 48 Second Avenue [10] as the Second Avenue Presbyterian Church [11] and was designed by the prominent New York firm of Town & Davis, which then included Alexander Jackson Davis, J. H. Dakin, and James Gallier.
Between Third Avenue and Avenue A it is named St. Mark's Place, after the nearby St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery on 10th Street at Second Avenue. St. Mark's Place is considered a main cultural street for the East Village. Vehicular traffic runs east along both one-way streets. St. Mark's Place features a wide variety of retailers.
The Second Avenue station is a station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Second Avenue and Houston Street on the border between the East Village and the Lower East Side, in Manhattan. It is served by the F train at all times and the <F> train during rush hours in the peak direction.
On March 26, 2015, a gas explosion and resulting fire in the East Village destroyed three buildings at 119, 121 and 123 Second Avenue, between East 7th Street and St. Mark's Place. At least twenty-two people were injured, four critically, and two people were initially listed as missing. [ 14 ]
The street was created by the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, as one of 16 north-south streets specified as 100 feet (30 m) in width; they include 12 numbered avenues, and four (located east of First Avenue) designated by letter. [2] A street fair in the summer of 2008. Avenue C was designated Loisaida Avenue in 1987, in recognition of the Puerto ...