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The Park Avenue Tunnel, also called the Murray Hill Tunnel, is a 1,600-foot-long (488 m) tunnel that passes under seven blocks of Park Avenue in Murray Hill, in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Traffic used to travel northbound from 33rd Street toward the Park Avenue Viaduct.
The Park Avenue main line originates at Grand Central Terminal to the south, which is located at 42nd Street.It consists of various train yards and interlockings between 42nd and 59th Streets consisting of 47 tracks between 45th and 51st Streets, 10 tracks from 51st to 57th Streets, [3]: 116 and then finally narrows to four tracks at 59th Street.
Park Avenue is a boulevard in New York City [5] that carries north and southbound traffic in the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx.For most of the road's length in Manhattan, it runs parallel to Madison Avenue to the west and Lexington Avenue to the east.
part of New York Tunnel Extension Amtrak and New Jersey Transit (Northeast Corridor) Lincoln Tunnel: north tube: 1945 center tube: 1937 south tube: 1957: south tube: 2,440 m (8,006 ft) center tube: 2,504 m (8,216 ft) north tube: 2,281 m (7,482 ft) 6 lanes of NY 495 (NY side); Route 495 (NJ side)
Park Avenue Tunnel may refer to: Park Avenue main line, railroad line with a tunnel section carrying Metro-North Railroad Park Avenue Tunnel (railroad), a railroad tunnel under Park Avenue in the Upper East Side, in New York City; Park Avenue Tunnel (roadway), a roadway tunnel under Park Avenue South in Murray Hill, in New York City
A tunnel cavern deep under Park Avenue, to the north of the new LIRR station, which now houses a switch. Work on the Manhattan side included building a new 8-track train station with storage tracks extending to 38th Street. [45]: 1 (PDF p. 2) [28]: 3 North of the station, the tunnels would connect to the 63rd Street Tunnel's lower level.
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The Park Avenue Viaduct was first proposed by New York Central president William J. Wilgus in 1900, when he suggested replacing Grand Central Depot with Grand Central Terminal. [30] During a design competition for the terminal in 1903, Reed and Stem proposed vehicular viaducts around the terminal building.