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Madison Avenue in Manhattan

Tuesday, 19 March 2024 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika
Category/Kategorie: General, New York City, Shopping Reading Time:  4 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Madison Avenue is a north-south avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States, that carries northbound one-way traffic. It runs from Madison Square (at 23rd Street) to meet the southbound Harlem River Drive at 142nd Street, passing through Midtown, the Upper East Side (including Carnegie Hill), East Harlem, and Harlem. It is named after and arises from Madison Square, which is itself named after James Madison, the fourth President of the United States.

Madison Avenue was not part of the original Manhattan street grid established in the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811, and was carved between Park Avenue (formerly Fourth) and Fifth Avenue in 1836, due to the effort of lawyer and real estate developer Samuel B. Ruggles, who had previously purchased and developed New York’s Gramercy Park in 1831, and convinced the authorities to create Lexington Avenue and Irving Place between Fourth Avenue (now Park Avenue South) and Third Avenue in order to service it.

The street’s name has been metonymous with the American advertising industry since the 1920s. Thus, the term “Madison Avenue” refers specifically to the agencies and methodology of advertising. “Madison Avenue techniques” refers, according to William Safire, to the “gimmicky, slick use of the communications media to play on emotions.”

There are numerous structures designated as New York City Landmarks (NYCL), National Historic Landmarks (NHL), and National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on Madison Avenue. From south to north (in increasing address order), they include:

• Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower (NYCL, NHL, NRHP)
• Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State (NYCL, NRHP)
• New York Life Building (NYCL, NHL, NRHP)
• Hotel Seville (NYCL)
• Emmet Building (NYCL)
• Colony Club (NYCL, NRHP)
• Madison Belmont Building (NYCL)
• B. Altman and Company Building (NYCL)
• Church of the Incarnation, Episcopal (NYCL, NRHP)
• Morgan Library & Museum (NYCL, NHL, NRHP)
• Joseph Raphael De Lamar House (NYCL, NRHP)
• 275 Madison Avenue (NYCL)
• 400 Madison Avenue (NYCL)
• St. Patrick’s Cathedral (NYCL, NHL, NRHP)
• Villard Houses (NYCL, NRHP)
• Look Building (NYCL)
• 550 Madison Avenue (NYCL)
• Fuller Building (NYCL)
• 45 East 66th Street (NYCL)
• Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo House (NYCL, NRHP)
• 1261 Madison Avenue (NYCL)
• 1321 Madison Avenue (NYCL)
• Squadron A Armory (NYCL, NRHP)
• All Saints Church (NYCL)

Retail brands with locations on Madison Avenue include: Burberry, Manrico Cashmere, Brooks Brothers, Alexander McQueen, Hermès, Tom Ford, Céline, Proenza Schouler, Lanvin, Valentino, Stuart Weitzman, Damiani, Emporio Armani, Prada, Chloé, Roberto Cavalli, Davidoff, Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, Calvin Klein, Cartier, Christian Louboutin, La Perla, Jimmy Choo, Jacadi, Mulberry, Victoria’s Secret, Barneys New York, Coach, Rolex, Giorgio Armani, Oliver Peoples, Vera Wang, Anne Fontaine, Baccarat, Carolina Herrera, Ralph Lauren and others.

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