Avenue of the Americas in New York City
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Sixth Avenue – also known as Avenue of the Americas, although this name is seldom used by New Yorkers – is a major thoroughfare in
New York City ‘s borough of
Manhattan , on which traffic runs northbound, or “uptown”. It is commercial for much of its length. Sixth Avenue begins four blocks below
Canal Street , at Franklin Street in
TriBeCa , where the northbound
Church Street divides into Sixth Avenue to the left and the local continuation of Church Street to the right, which then ends at Canal Street. From this beginning, Sixth Avenue traverses
SoHo and
Greenwich Village , roughly divides
Chelsea from the
Flatiron District and
NoMad , passes through the
Garment District and skirts the edge of the
Theater District while passing through
Midtown Manhattan . Sixth Avenue’s northern end is at
Central Park South , adjacent to the Artists’ Gate entrance to
Central Park via
Center Drive . Historically, Sixth Avenue was also the name of the road that continued north of Central Park, but that segment was renamed
Lenox Avenue in 1887 and co-named
Malcolm X Boulevard in 1987.
The avenue’s official name was changed to Avenue of the Americas in 1945 by the City Council, at the behest of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia , who signed the bill into law on October 2, 1945. The intent was to honor “Pan-American ideals and principles” and the nations of Central and South America, and to encourage those countries to build consulates along the avenue. It was felt at the time that the name would provide greater grandeur to a shabby street, and to promote trade with the Western Hemisphere. After the name change, round signs were attached to streetlights on the avenue, showing the national seals of the nations honored. However, New Yorkers rarely used the avenue’s newer name, and in 1955, an informal study found that locals used “Sixth Avenue” more than eight times as often as “Avenue of the Americas”. The move was also criticized as “propaganda” by those who wanted to return to the original name. The street has been labelled as both “Avenue of the Americas” and “Sixth Avenue” in recent years. Most of the old round signs with country emblems were gone by the late 1990s, and the ones remaining are showing signs of age.
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Sights along Sixth Avenue include
Juan Pablo Duarte Square ; with the polychrome High
Victorian Gothic Jefferson Market Courthouse, currently occupied by the
Jefferson Market Library ; the surviving stretch of grand
department stores of 1880 to 1900 in the
Ladies’ Mile Historic District that runs from
18th Street to
23rd Street ; the former wholesale flower district;
Herald Square at 34th Street, site of
Macy’s department store;
Bryant Park from
40th to
42nd Streets ; and the corporate stretch above 42nd Street, which includes the
Bank of America Tower ,
W. R. Grace Building ,
International Center of Photography ,
Rockefeller Center — including the
Time-Life Building ,
News Corp. Building ,
Exxon Building and
McGraw-Hill Building , as well as
Radio City Music Hall . The
Steinway Hall of New York was moved to 1133 Sixth Avenue in 2016. Sixth Avenue is the site of the annual
Village Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village and the
Dominican Day Parade in Midtown.
Sixth Avenue is served by the
New York City Subway with the
IND Sixth Avenue Line (
B ,
D ,
F <F> , and
M trains) north of
Houston Street , and the
IND Eighth Avenue Line (
A ,
C , and
E trains) south of
Greenwich Avenue . The Harlem portion of Sixth Avenue (
Lenox Avenue ) is served by the
IRT Lenox Avenue Line (
2 and
3 trains) north of
Central Park North (110th Street). The
PATH ‘s
Uptown Hudson Tubes to
New Jersey also run under Sixth Avenue (
JSQ–33 ,
HOB-33 , and
JSQ-33 (via HOB) trains) from
9th to
33rd Streets.
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Wikipedia Sixth Avenue (
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