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Park Avenue

January 11, 2024

This article is about the avenue in Manhattan and the Bronx. For other uses, see Park Avenue (disambiguation).
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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. Park Avenue's entire length was formerly called Fourth Avenue; the title still applies to the section between Cooper Square and 14th Street.[6] The avenue is called Union Square East between 14th and 17th Streets, and Park Avenue South between 17th and 32nd Streets.

Park Avenue
Fourth Avenue, Union Square East, Park Avenue South
Looking south from 52nd Street, facing the MetLife Building and Helmsley Building in the background with St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church and Waldorf Astoria New York to the left
Former name(s)Fourth Avenue
Namesaketracks between 34th and 40th Streets which were covered in grass[1]
OwnerCity of New York
Maintained byNYCDOT
Length10.9 mi (17.5 km)[2][3][4]
LocationManhattan and The Bronx, New York City
South endAstor Place in Cooper Square
Major
junctions		Park Avenue Tunnel and Viaduct in East Midtown
Harlem River Drive in East Harlem
North endThird Avenue in Fordham
EastLexington Avenue
WestMadison Avenue
Construction
CommissionedMarch 1811

History edit

 
Park Avenue on the Upper East Side
 
The railroad tunnel in 1941

Early years and railroad construction edit

Because of its designation as the widest avenue on Manhattans East Side, Park Avenue originally carried the tracks of the New York and Harlem Railroad built in the 1830s, just a few years after the adoption of the Manhattan street grid.[7] The railroad's right-of-way at ground level forced foot and carriage traffic onto either side of the tracks. Later on, the railroad was run through an open cut tunnel under Murray Hill, which was then covered with grates and grass between 34th and 40th Street in the early 1850s. A section of this "park" was later renamed Park Avenue in 1860.[8] Park Avenue's original southern terminus was at 34th Street, and the newly renamed Park Avenue was given its own house-numbering system separate from that of Fourth Avenue. The address 1 Park Avenue was assigned to a house at 101 East 34th Street, at the northeast corner of Park Avenue and 34th Street.[9]

The Harlem Railroad was later incorporated into the New York Central Railroad, and a terminal for the New York Central at 42nd Street, the Grand Central Depot, opened in 1871.[10]: 3  But the tracks laid to the new terminal proved problematic. There were originally no grade-separated crossings of the railroads between 42nd and 59th Streets.[11] As such, they required railroad crossings along Fourth Avenue, which resulted in frequent accidents; seven people died within 12 days of the Hudson River Railroad's move to Grand Central.[12]

In 1872, shortly after the opening of Grand Central Depot, New York Central owner Cornelius Vanderbilt proposed the Fourth Avenue Improvement Project.[10] The tracks between 48th and 56th Streets were to be moved into a shallow open cut,[13] while the segment between 56th and 97th Streets, which was in a rock cut, would be covered over.[10][a] After the improvements were completed in 1874, the railroads, approaching Grand Central Depot from the north, descended into the Park Avenue Tunnel at 96th Street and continued underground into the new depot.[10] As part of the project, Fourth Avenue was transformed into a boulevard with a median strip that covered the railroad's ventilation grates.[15][16][10]: 4  Eight footbridges crossed the tracks between 45th and 56th Streets, and there were also vehicular overpasses at 45th and 48th Streets.[10]: 4  The boulevard north of Grand Central was renamed Park Avenue in 1888.[17]

Grand Central and Terminal City edit

A fatal collision between two trains occurred under Park Avenue in 1902, in part because the smoke coming from the steam trains obscured the signals.[18][19] The New York state legislature subsequently passed a law to ban all steam trains in Manhattan.[20] By December 1902, as part of an agreement with the city, New York Central agreed to put the approach to Grand Central Station from 46th to 59th Streets in an open cut under Park Avenue, and to upgrade the tracks to accommodate electric trains. Overpasses would be built across the open cut at most of the cross-streets.[21] The new electric-train terminal, Grand Central Terminal, was opened in 1913.[22]

After the electric trains were buried underground, the area around Park Avenue in the vicinity of Grand Central was developed into several blocks worth of prime real estate called Terminal City. Stretching from 42nd to 51st Streets between Madison and Lexington Avenues, it came to include the Chrysler Building and other prestigious office buildings; luxury apartment houses along Park Avenue; and an array of high-end hotels that included the Marguery, Park Lane, and Waldorf Astoria.[23] In 1929, New York Central built its headquarters in a 34-story building (now called the Helmsley Building), straddling Park Avenue north of the terminal.[24]

The Park Avenue Viaduct reroutes Park Avenue around Grand Central Terminal between 40th and 46th Streets, allowing Park Avenue traffic to traverse around the building and over 42nd Street without encumbering nearby streets.[25] The western (now southbound) leg of the viaduct was completed in 1919,[26] but congestion developed soon after the viaduct's opening, so an eastern leg for northbound traffic was added in 1928.[25]

Later years edit

The developer Henry Mandel acquired the lots on the eastern side of Fourth Avenue between 32nd and 33rd Street in 1923 under the name "One Park Avenue Corporation". To ensure his corporate name was accurate, Mandel asked the New York City Board of Aldermen to move Park Avenue's southern terminus to 32nd Street.[9] The change went into effect on December 1, 1924, and address numbers along Park Avenue were changed accordingly.[27] The previous house numbered 1 Park Avenue was occupied by Martha Bacon, widow of diplomat Robert Bacon, who led the opposition to the renumbering.[28] The Board of Aldermen summarily overturned the name change,[9] but Mayor John Hylan vetoed the move in April 1925.[29] This prompted Bacon to appeal the decision to the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, which overturned Hylan's veto in November 1927, on the basis that the extension of Park Avenue to 32nd Street had been made for the benefit of a developer.[27][30] Mandel's development at 32nd Street was thus known as 461–477 Fourth Avenue, and the developers of that building sued to reverse the appellate ruling.[9] The New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, reversed the appellate ruling in February 1928.[31][32] Bacon contemplated bringing up the matter with the United States Supreme Court,[33] but she ultimately relented, changing her address to "Park Avenue at 34th" by 1930.[9]

In 1927, the medians on Park Avenue north of Grand Central were trimmed to add one lane of traffic in each direction. This project eliminated the pedestrian path on the medians, as they became much narrower. The median was extended by one block from 96th Street to 97th Street in 1941, creating the only remaining median on Park Avenue with a pedestrian path and seating.[34] In the 1920s the portion of Park Avenue from Grand Central to 96th Street saw extensive apartment building construction. This long stretch of the avenue contains some of the most expensive real estate in the world. Real estate at 740 Park Avenue, for example, sells for several thousand dollars per square foot.[35]

In October 1937, a part of the Murray Hill Tunnel was reopened for road traffic. Efforts to promote a Grand Park Avenue Expressway to Grand Concourse in the Bronx were unsuccessful.[36]

A tradition was introduced in 1945 as a memorial to American soldiers killed in action, whereby Christmas trees are placed in the median and lit up on the first Sunday in December at Brick Presbyterian Church.[37] On May 5, 1959, the New York City Council voted 20–1 to change the name of Fourth Avenue between 17th and 32nd Streets to Park Avenue South. The renaming, along with a ban on overhanging signs along the newly renamed Park Avenue South, was intended to improve the character of the avenue.[38] Unlike with the earlier renamings of Park Avenue, the address numbers of Park Avenue South continued from those on the remaining section of Fourth Avenue.[9] The Pan Am Building (now MetLife Building), in between the Park Avenue Viaduct's legs north of Grand Central Terminal, was opened in 1963.[39]

In September 2007, the Metro-North Railroad reached an agreement with the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) to install pedestrian traffic signals along Park Avenue between 46th Street and 56th Street. The two sides had feuded over the issue since 1982, when Penn Central controlled the Park Avenue Tunnel. In 1997, the NYCDOT commissioner stated that signals would be installed during an upcoming phase of reconstruction in the Grand Central area.[40] The $35 million project, whose cost was split between Metro-North and the city, was approved by the MTA Board later that month. It called for the installation of 12 pedestrian signals and 8 traffic signals at the eleven intersections and the renovation of the sidewalks and streets around Grand Central to prevent rainwater from seeping into the tunnel.[41] Car traffic in this area had been controlled by traffic lights on a pole at each intersection in the middle of the median, instead of the usual four from each direction, resulting in a relatively high rate of pedestrian injuries. Additional traffic lights and pedestrian signals had not been added because this area of Park Avenue was located directly atop the roof of the Park Avenue Tunnel, with the street being 8 inches (20 cm) above the roof in some locations. Because the roof was 18 to 24 inches (46 to 61 cm) thick, there was not enough room to provide a foundation for the traffic poles without puncturing the structure. Due to the high cost of making these upgrades, and the lack of cooperation between the New York City Department of Transportation and Metro-North, which had opposed any solution that would modify the tunnel roof, the project was delayed for several years.[41][42] The project had been estimated to cost $200,000 per intersection in 1994.[43] As part of the new agreement, Metro-North designed a way to anchor the traffic signals in the deck and tunnel roof.[44] Pedestrian signals and gantry-mounted traffic signals were installed at these intersections in July 2010.[45]

On March 12, 2014, two apartment buildings near 116th Street, 1644 and 1646 Park Avenue, were destroyed in a gas explosion. Eight people were killed and many others were injured.[46]

Route edit

 
Park Avenue in Belmont, Bronx, near Fordham Plaza.

Manhattan edit

"Park Avenue South" redirects here. For the street of the same name in Buffalo, New York, see South Park Avenue.

The road that becomes Park Avenue originates at the Bowery. From Cooper Square at 8th Street to Union Square at 14th Street, it is known as Fourth Avenue, a 70-foot-wide (21 m) road carrying northbound traffic. At 14th Street, it turns slightly northeast to align with other avenues drawn up in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811. From 14th Street to 17th Street, it forms the eastern boundary of Union Square and is known as Union Square East; its southbound lanes merge with Broadway south of 15th Street, and the thoroughfare divides into two distinct portions in the one-block section between 14th and 15th Streets. From 17th Street to 32nd Street, it is known as Park Avenue South.[3] Address numbers on Park Avenue South are a continuation of those on Fourth Avenue;[47] for example, 225 Park Avenue South was originally known as 225 Fourth Avenue.[48]

Above 32nd Street, for the remainder of its distance, it is known as Park Avenue, a 140-foot-wide (43 m) boulevard.[3] The address numbers for Park Avenue are reset above 32nd Street;[47] for example, the address 1 Park Avenue would ordinarily have been numbered 461 Fourth Avenue.[9] Between 33rd Street and 40th Street, the leftmost northbound lane descends into the Murray Hill Tunnel. North of 40th Street, the center lanes of Park Avenue rise onto an elevated structure that goes around Grand Central Terminal and the MetLife Building (formerly the Pan Am Building), carrying each direction of traffic on opposite sides of the buildings. The bridge, one of two structures in Manhattan known as the Park Avenue Viaduct, returns to ground level at 46th Street after going through the Helmsley Building (also referred to as the New York Central Building or 230 Park Avenue).[3] The IRT Lexington Avenue Line runs under this portion of the street. Once the line reaches Grand Central–42nd Street, it shifts east to Lexington Avenue.

 
Park Avenue northbound past 51st Street in Midtown Manhattan

As Park Avenue enters Midtown north of Grand Central Terminal, it is distinguished by many glass-box skyscrapers that serve as headquarters for corporations and investment banks such as Société Générale, JPMorgan Chase at 270 Park Avenue and 277 Park Avenue, UBS at 299 Park Avenue, Citigroup at 399 Park Avenue, Colgate-Palmolive, and MetLife at the MetLife Building.[3] From 47th to 97th Streets, the tracks for Metro-North Railroad's Park Avenue main line run in the Park Avenue Tunnel underneath Park Avenue. At 97th Street, the tracks come above ground, rising onto the other Manhattan structure known as the Park Avenue Viaduct. The first street to pass under the viaduct is 102nd Street; from there to the Harlem River the railroad viaduct runs down the middle of Park Avenue. Park Avenue in Manhattan ends north of 132nd Street, with connections to the Harlem River Drive.[3]

The flowers and greenery in the median of Manhattan's Park Avenue are privately maintained, by the Fund for Park Avenue. The begonia was specifically chosen by the Fund's gardeners because there is no automatic watering system and the floral variety is resilient under hot sun rays.[49]

The Bronx edit

The avenue is continued on the other side of the river in the Bronx. In the Bronx, Park Avenue begins at East 135th Street in the Mott Haven neighborhood. The entire avenue is divided by Metro-North's own right of way in the borough. Between East 135th Street to East 173rd Street, Park Avenue is one way only in either direction in most sections. North of East 173rd Street it is a two way avenue continuing to Fordham Plaza where it ends.[4]

Businesses edit

 
Park Avenue Viaduct, during the 2008 Summer Streets event.

The following institutions are either headquartered or have significant business presences on Park Avenue:

Notable structures edit

In north-south order:[3]

Transportation edit

Rail transit edit

Metro-North Railroad's Grand Central Terminal, serving the Harlem Line, Hudson Line, and New Haven Line, is at 42nd Street and Park Avenue. The MNR's Park Avenue main line runs along Park Avenue in both boroughs between Grand Central and Fordham station, with stations in between at 125th Street, 162nd Street, and Tremont Avenue.[50]

The New York City Subway's adjacent Grand Central–42nd Street station serves the 4, ​5, ​6, <6>​, 7, <7>​​, and S trains. The IRT Lexington Avenue Line additionally runs under Park Avenue and its extensions from 41st to 8th Streets. The 33rd Street, 28th Street, 23rd Street, and Astor Place stations are served by the 6 and <6>​ trains, while the 14th Street-Union Square station is served by the 4, ​5, ​6, <6>​, L​, N, ​Q, ​R, and ​W trains.[51]

Bus service edit

The southbound M98 Limited runs on Park Avenue between Harlem River Drive and 120th Street, stopping at the Harlem-125th Street station. The northbound M1, M2, and M3 serve Park Avenue between 8th Street and 25th Street.[52] The southbound SIM1, SIM3, SIM4, SIM33, X27 and X28 express bus routes serve Park Avenue during off-peak hours.[53][54] No buses run along Park Avenue in the Bronx, although Fordham Plaza Bus Terminal is located at the northern end of the road.[55]

In popular culture edit

  • The song "Puttin' On the Ritz", from the film Blue Skies (1946), refers to affluent people strutting "up and down Park Avenue".
  • The 1961 stage and film musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying takes place in the fictional "Park Avenue office building of World Wide Wicket Company, Inc."
  • In the intro to the mid 1960s – early 1970s TV show Green Acres, Eva Gabor's character sings "Darling I love you, but give me Park Avenue!", where she lived before moving to rural Hooterville with her husband, the lawyer-turned-farmer.[56]
  • In the TV series The Odd Couple, Felix Unger and Oscar Madison live at 1049 Park Avenue.
  • In the 1971 film Carnal Knowledge, the characters of Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel can be seen walking up Park Avenue, past the crossing with East 52nd Street.
  • In the TV series Diff'rent Strokes, Phillip Drummond, with his daughter, Kimberly and adopted sons, Willis and Arnold Jackson live at 697 Park Avenue.
  • In the 1987 novel The Bonfire of the Vanities, WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy lives in an apartment on Park Avenue, signifying his financial success.
  • In the multi-platinum 1989 hit single "Youth Gone Wild" by American band Skid Row, Park Avenue is mentioned in the lyrics: "I said 'Hey man, there's something that you oughta know. / I tell ya Park Avenue leads to Skid Row.'"
  • In The Simpsons episode "E-I-E-I-D'oh", Homer is ridiculed by two farmers outside Sneed's Feed & Seed (Formerly Chuck's) for having a "Park Avenue manicure". Homer responds by saying "I'm sorry, I believe in good grooming".
  • The PBS documentary Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream sheds light on the gap between the impoverished people living on Park Avenue in the South Bronx and the extremely wealthy living at 740 Park Avenue in Manhattan.
  • General Motors borrowed the name of the street for the Buick Park Avenue, a large luxury sedan that was produced first as the premium trim line for the Buick Electra from 1977 to 1990, and as a standalone model from 1991 to 2005.
  • In the 2017 video game Sonic Forces, one of the main stage takes place on Park Avenue, the stage re-imagined as a war zone.
  • In the second season of Riverdale, one of the main characters from the show, Veronica Lodge is said to have lived on Park Avenue when she was back in New York City.
  • In an episode in the second season of Seinfeld, "The Chinese Restaurant", one character that cuts in front of the main characters Jerry, Elaine, and George at a restaurant in Manhattan is said to live there, implying that he is incredibly wealthy and deserving of the special treatment.
  • In the sixth season of Mad Men, Don Draper's address appears on an envelope as "783 Park Avenue, apt. 17B".
  • In the 2012 film The Avengers, the climax takes place on the Park Avenue Viaduct.
  • In the 2020 miniseries The Undoing

Gallery edit

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    10 Park Avenue, at the corner of East 34th Street
  •  
    The Adelaide L. Townsend Douglas House, currently the Guatemalan U.N. Mission at 57 Park Avenue, between East 37th and 38th Streets

See also edit

References edit

Explanatory notes

  1. ^ The line entered fully enclosed brick tunnels between 67th and 71st Streets, and between 80th and 96th Streets. The remainder of this segment was located in a "beam tunnel" structure, which were mostly open-air, except where cross-streets traversed the cut on steel-beam bridges.[14]

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covered in grass 1 OwnerCity of New YorkMaintained byNYCDOTLength10 9 mi 17 5 km 2 3 4 LocationManhattan and The Bronx New York CitySouth endAstor Place in Cooper SquareMajorjunctionsPark Avenue Tunnel and Viaduct in East Midtown Harlem River Drive in East HarlemNorth endThird Avenue in FordhamEastLexington AvenueWestMadison AvenueConstructionCommissionedMarch 1811 Contents 1 History 1 1 Early years and railroad construction 1 2 Grand Central and Terminal City 1 3 Later years 2 Route 2 1 Manhattan 2 2 The Bronx 3 Businesses 4 Notable structures 5 Transportation 5 1 Rail transit 5 2 Bus service 6 In popular culture 7 Gallery 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksHistory edit nbsp Park Avenue on the Upper East Side nbsp The railroad tunnel in 1941Early years and railroad construction edit Because of its designation as the widest avenue on Manhattans East Side Park Avenue originally carried the tracks of the New York and Harlem Railroad built in the 1830s just a few years after the adoption of the Manhattan street grid 7 The railroad s right of way at ground level forced foot and carriage traffic onto either side of the tracks Later on the railroad was run through an open cut tunnel under Murray Hill which was then covered with grates and grass between 34th and 40th Street in the early 1850s A section of this park was later renamed Park Avenue in 1860 8 Park Avenue s original southern terminus was at 34th Street and the newly renamed Park Avenue was given its own house numbering system separate from that of Fourth Avenue The address 1 Park Avenue was assigned to a house at 101 East 34th Street at the northeast corner of Park Avenue and 34th Street 9 The Harlem Railroad was later incorporated into the New York Central Railroad and a terminal for the New York Central at 42nd Street the Grand Central Depot opened in 1871 10 3 But the tracks laid to the new terminal proved problematic There were originally no grade separated crossings of the railroads between 42nd and 59th Streets 11 As such they required railroad crossings along Fourth Avenue which resulted in frequent accidents seven people died within 12 days of the Hudson River Railroad s move to Grand Central 12 In 1872 shortly after the opening of Grand Central Depot New York Central owner Cornelius Vanderbilt proposed the Fourth Avenue Improvement Project 10 The tracks between 48th and 56th Streets were to be moved into a shallow open cut 13 while the segment between 56th and 97th Streets which was in a rock cut would be covered over 10 a After the improvements were completed in 1874 the railroads approaching Grand Central Depot from the north descended into the Park Avenue Tunnel at 96th Street and continued underground into the new depot 10 As part of the project Fourth Avenue was transformed into a boulevard with a median strip that covered the railroad s ventilation grates 15 16 10 4 Eight footbridges crossed the tracks between 45th and 56th Streets and there were also vehicular overpasses at 45th and 48th Streets 10 4 The boulevard north of Grand Central was renamed Park Avenue in 1888 17 Grand Central and Terminal City edit A fatal collision between two trains occurred under Park Avenue in 1902 in part because the smoke coming from the steam trains obscured the signals 18 19 The New York state legislature subsequently passed a law to ban all steam trains in Manhattan 20 By December 1902 as part of an agreement with the city New York Central agreed to put the approach to Grand Central Station from 46th to 59th Streets in an open cut under Park Avenue and to upgrade the tracks to accommodate electric trains Overpasses would be built across the open cut at most of the cross streets 21 The new electric train terminal Grand Central Terminal was opened in 1913 22 After the electric trains were buried underground the area around Park Avenue in the vicinity of Grand Central was developed into several blocks worth of prime real estate called Terminal City Stretching from 42nd to 51st Streets between Madison and Lexington Avenues it came to include the Chrysler Building and other prestigious office buildings luxury apartment houses along Park Avenue and an array of high end hotels that included the Marguery Park Lane and Waldorf Astoria 23 In 1929 New York Central built its headquarters in a 34 story building now called the Helmsley Building straddling Park Avenue north of the terminal 24 The Park Avenue Viaduct reroutes Park Avenue around Grand Central Terminal between 40th and 46th Streets allowing Park Avenue traffic to traverse around the building and over 42nd Street without encumbering nearby streets 25 The western now southbound leg of the viaduct was completed in 1919 26 but congestion developed soon after the viaduct s opening so an eastern leg for northbound traffic was added in 1928 25 Later years edit The developer Henry Mandel acquired the lots on the eastern side of Fourth Avenue between 32nd and 33rd Street in 1923 under the name One Park Avenue Corporation To ensure his corporate name was accurate Mandel asked the New York City Board of Aldermen to move Park Avenue s southern terminus to 32nd Street 9 The change went into effect on December 1 1924 and address numbers along Park Avenue were changed accordingly 27 The previous house numbered 1 Park Avenue was occupied by Martha Bacon widow of diplomat Robert Bacon who led the opposition to the renumbering 28 The Board of Aldermen summarily overturned the name change 9 but Mayor John Hylan vetoed the move in April 1925 29 This prompted Bacon to appeal the decision to the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division which overturned Hylan s veto in November 1927 on the basis that the extension of Park Avenue to 32nd Street had been made for the benefit of a developer 27 30 Mandel s development at 32nd Street was thus known as 461 477 Fourth Avenue and the developers of that building sued to reverse the appellate ruling 9 The New York Court of Appeals the state s highest court reversed the appellate ruling in February 1928 31 32 Bacon contemplated bringing up the matter with the United States Supreme Court 33 but she ultimately relented changing her address to Park Avenue at 34th by 1930 9 In 1927 the medians on Park Avenue north of Grand Central were trimmed to add one lane of traffic in each direction This project eliminated the pedestrian path on the medians as they became much narrower The median was extended by one block from 96th Street to 97th Street in 1941 creating the only remaining median on Park Avenue with a pedestrian path and seating 34 In the 1920s the portion of Park Avenue from Grand Central to 96th Street saw extensive apartment building construction This long stretch of the avenue contains some of the most expensive real estate in the world Real estate at 740 Park Avenue for example sells for several thousand dollars per square foot 35 In October 1937 a part of the Murray Hill Tunnel was reopened for road traffic Efforts to promote a Grand Park Avenue Expressway to Grand Concourse in the Bronx were unsuccessful 36 A tradition was introduced in 1945 as a memorial to American soldiers killed in action whereby Christmas trees are placed in the median and lit up on the first Sunday in December at Brick Presbyterian Church 37 On May 5 1959 the New York City Council voted 20 1 to change the name of Fourth Avenue between 17th and 32nd Streets to Park Avenue South The renaming along with a ban on overhanging signs along the newly renamed Park Avenue South was intended to improve the character of the avenue 38 Unlike with the earlier renamings of Park Avenue the address numbers of Park Avenue South continued from those on the remaining section of Fourth Avenue 9 The Pan Am Building now MetLife Building in between the Park Avenue Viaduct s legs north of Grand Central Terminal was opened in 1963 39 In September 2007 the Metro North Railroad reached an agreement with the New York City Department of Transportation NYCDOT to install pedestrian traffic signals along Park Avenue between 46th Street and 56th Street The two sides had feuded over the issue since 1982 when Penn Central controlled the Park Avenue Tunnel In 1997 the NYCDOT commissioner stated that signals would be installed during an upcoming phase of reconstruction in the Grand Central area 40 The 35 million project whose cost was split between Metro North and the city was approved by the MTA Board later that month It called for the installation of 12 pedestrian signals and 8 traffic signals at the eleven intersections and the renovation of the sidewalks and streets around Grand Central to prevent rainwater from seeping into the tunnel 41 Car traffic in this area had been controlled by traffic lights on a pole at each intersection in the middle of the median instead of the usual four from each direction resulting in a relatively high rate of pedestrian injuries Additional traffic lights and pedestrian signals had not been added because this area of Park Avenue was located directly atop the roof of the Park Avenue Tunnel with the street being 8 inches 20 cm above the roof in some locations Because the roof was 18 to 24 inches 46 to 61 cm thick there was not enough room to provide a foundation for the traffic poles without puncturing the structure Due to the high cost of making these upgrades and the lack of cooperation between the New York City Department of Transportation and Metro North which had opposed any solution that would modify the tunnel roof the project was delayed for several years 41 42 The project had been estimated to cost 200 000 per intersection in 1994 43 As part of the new agreement Metro North designed a way to anchor the traffic signals in the deck and tunnel roof 44 Pedestrian signals and gantry mounted traffic signals were installed at these intersections in July 2010 45 On March 12 2014 two apartment buildings near 116th Street 1644 and 1646 Park Avenue were destroyed in a gas explosion Eight people were killed and many others were injured 46 Route edit nbsp Park Avenue in Belmont Bronx near Fordham Plaza Manhattan edit Park Avenue South redirects here For the street of the same name in Buffalo New York see South Park Avenue The road that becomes Park Avenue originates at the Bowery From Cooper Square at 8th Street to Union Square at 14th Street it is known as Fourth Avenue a 70 foot wide 21 m road carrying northbound traffic At 14th Street it turns slightly northeast to align with other avenues drawn up in the Commissioners Plan of 1811 From 14th Street to 17th Street it forms the eastern boundary of Union Square and is known as Union Square East its southbound lanes merge with Broadway south of 15th Street and the thoroughfare divides into two distinct portions in the one block section between 14th and 15th Streets From 17th Street to 32nd Street it is known as Park Avenue South 3 Address numbers on Park Avenue South are a continuation of those on Fourth Avenue 47 for example 225 Park Avenue South was originally known as 225 Fourth Avenue 48 Above 32nd Street for the remainder of its distance it is known as Park Avenue a 140 foot wide 43 m boulevard 3 The address numbers for Park Avenue are reset above 32nd Street 47 for example the address 1 Park Avenue would ordinarily have been numbered 461 Fourth Avenue 9 Between 33rd Street and 40th Street the leftmost northbound lane descends into the Murray Hill Tunnel North of 40th Street the center lanes of Park Avenue rise onto an elevated structure that goes around Grand Central Terminal and the MetLife Building formerly the Pan Am Building carrying each direction of traffic on opposite sides of the buildings The bridge one of two structures in Manhattan known as the Park Avenue Viaduct returns to ground level at 46th Street after going through the Helmsley Building also referred to as the New York Central Building or 230 Park Avenue 3 The IRT Lexington Avenue Line runs under this portion of the street Once the line reaches Grand Central 42nd Street it shifts east to Lexington Avenue nbsp Park Avenue northbound past 51st Street in Midtown ManhattanAs Park Avenue enters Midtown north of Grand Central Terminal it is distinguished by many glass box skyscrapers that serve as headquarters for corporations and investment banks such as Societe Generale JPMorgan Chase at 270 Park Avenue and 277 Park Avenue UBS at 299 Park Avenue Citigroup at 399 Park Avenue Colgate Palmolive and MetLife at the MetLife Building 3 From 47th to 97th Streets the tracks for Metro North Railroad s Park Avenue main line run in the Park Avenue Tunnel underneath Park Avenue At 97th Street the tracks come above ground rising onto the other Manhattan structure known as the Park Avenue Viaduct The first street to pass under the viaduct is 102nd Street from there to the Harlem River the railroad viaduct runs down the middle of Park Avenue Park Avenue in Manhattan ends north of 132nd Street with connections to the Harlem River Drive 3 The flowers and greenery in the median of Manhattan s Park Avenue are privately maintained by the Fund for Park Avenue The begonia was specifically chosen by the Fund s gardeners because there is no automatic watering system and the floral variety is resilient under hot sun rays 49 The Bronx edit The avenue is continued on the other side of the river in the Bronx In the Bronx Park Avenue begins at East 135th Street in the Mott Haven neighborhood The entire avenue is divided by Metro North s own right of way in the borough Between East 135th Street to East 173rd Street Park Avenue is one way only in either direction in most sections North of East 173rd Street it is a two way avenue continuing to Fordham Plaza where it ends 4 Businesses edit nbsp Park Avenue Viaduct during the 2008 Summer Streets event The following institutions are either headquartered or have significant business presences on Park Avenue Arconic American Airlines at 2 Park Ave Americas Society Asia Society Bankers Trust The Blackstone Group at 345 Park Ave Bristol Myers Squibb British Airways at 2 Park Ave Cantor Fitzgerald at 499 Park Ave Citigroup at 399 Park Ave Colgate Palmolive at 300 Park Ave Council on Foreign Relations Credit Suisse at 324 Park Ave C V Starr at 90 Park Ave Deutsche Bank Digitas Environmental Defense Fund EXL Service FactSet at 90 Park Ave Ferrari Heineken International Hilb Rogal amp Hobbs Co Hachette Book Group USA at 237 Park Ave Houlihan Lokey at 245 Park Ave Hunter College JPMorgan Chase amp Co at 270 Park Ave KPMG Leucadia National Major League Baseball Maserati Mercedes Benz MetLife at 200 Park Ave M amp T Bank Mutual of America at 320 Park Ave The National Football League Needham amp Company New York Life Oneworld at 2 Park Ave Piper Jaffray at 345 Park Ave Raymond James at 320 Park Ave Reed Elsevier Sanofi Aventis Seligman Sefaria Societe Generale Tata Consultancy Services Twitch Interactive Inc Vivendi SA UBS at 299 Park Ave The Waldorf Astoria Hotel at 301 Park Ave Warner Bros Discovery at 230 Park Ave Notable structures editIn north south order 3 Daryl Roth Theatre 44 Union Square Everett Building 200 Park Avenue South W New York Union Square 201 Park Avenue South 225 Park Avenue South Church Missions House 281 Park Avenue South United Charities Building 287 Park Avenue South 300 Park Avenue South Metropolitan Life North Building 324 Park Avenue South New York Life Building 364 378 Park Avenue South 2 Park Avenue designed by Ely Jacques Kahn 3 Park Avenue 4 Park Avenue formerly the Vanderbilt Hotel Robb House 41 Park Avenue Adelaide L T Douglas House 57 Park Avenue Scandinavia House The Nordic Center in America 58 Park Avenue Our Saviour Roman Catholic Church 59 Park Avenue Union League Club 101 Park Avenue Pershing Square Building 125 Park Avenue Grand Central Terminal actually in Park Avenue between the Park Avenue Viaduct s two roadways MetLife Building 200 Park Avenue Helmsley Building 230 Park Avenue 245 Park Avenue 270 Park Avenue 277 Park Avenue 299 Park Avenue Waldorf Astoria New York 301 Park Avenue St Bartholomew s Episcopal Church 345 Park Avenue Racquet and Tennis Club 370 Park Avenue Park Avenue Plaza Seagram Building 375 Park Avenue designed by Mies van der Rohe Lever House 390 Park Avenue designed by Gordon Bunshaft 399 Park Avenue 425 Park Avenue 432 Park Avenue At 2015 completion was the tallest residential building in the world Ritz Tower 465 Park Avenue Halstead Property 499 Park Avenue 500 Park Avenue Trump Park Avenue 502 Park Avenue Central Presbyterian Church 593 Park Avenue 620 Park Avenue Seventh Regiment Armory 643 Park Avenue 655 Park Avenue Harold Pratt House 58 East 68th Street corner of Park Avenue Park Avenue Houses Percy R Pyne House 680 Park Avenue now the Americas Society Oliver D Filley House 684 Park Avenue now the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute William Sloane House 686 Park Avenue now the Italian Cultural Institute of New York Henry P Davison House 690 Park Avenue now the Italian Consulate General Asia Society 725 Park Avenue 740 Park Avenue 778 Park Avenue 970 Park Avenue Church of St Ignatius Loyola 980 Park Avenue 1000 Park Avenue Park Avenue Christian Church 1010 Park Avenue Brick Presbyterian Church 1140 Park AvenueTransportation editRail transit edit Metro North Railroad s Grand Central Terminal serving the Harlem Line Hudson Line and New Haven Line is at 42nd Street and Park Avenue The MNR s Park Avenue main line runs along Park Avenue in both boroughs between Grand Central and Fordham station with stations in between at 125th Street 162nd Street and Tremont Avenue 50 The New York City Subway s adjacent Grand Central 42nd Street station serves the 4 5 6 lt 6 gt 7 lt 7 gt and S trains The IRT Lexington Avenue Line additionally runs under Park Avenue and its extensions from 41st to 8th Streets The 33rd Street 28th Street 23rd Street and Astor Place stations are served by the 6 and lt 6 gt trains while the 14th Street Union Square station is served by the 4 5 6 lt 6 gt L N Q R and W trains 51 Bus service edit The southbound M98 Limited runs on Park Avenue between Harlem River Drive and 120th Street stopping at the Harlem 125th Street station The northbound M1 M2 and M3 serve Park Avenue between 8th Street and 25th Street 52 The southbound SIM1 SIM3 SIM4 SIM33 X27 and X28 express bus routes serve Park Avenue during off peak hours 53 54 No buses run along Park Avenue in the Bronx although Fordham Plaza Bus Terminal is located at the northern end of the road 55 In popular culture editThe song Puttin On the Ritz from the film Blue Skies 1946 refers to affluent people strutting up and down Park Avenue The 1961 stage and film musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying takes place in the fictional Park Avenue office building of World Wide Wicket Company Inc In the intro to the mid 1960s early 1970s TV show Green Acres Eva Gabor s character sings Darling I love you but give me Park Avenue where she lived before moving to rural Hooterville with her husband the lawyer turned farmer 56 In the TV series The Odd Couple Felix Unger and Oscar Madison live at 1049 Park Avenue In the 1971 film Carnal Knowledge the characters of Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel can be seen walking up Park Avenue past the crossing with East 52nd Street In the TV series Diff rent Strokes Phillip Drummond with his daughter Kimberly and adopted sons Willis and Arnold Jackson live at 697 Park Avenue In the 1987 novel The Bonfire of the Vanities WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy lives in an apartment on Park Avenue signifying his financial success In the multi platinum 1989 hit single Youth Gone Wild by American band Skid Row Park Avenue is mentioned in the lyrics I said Hey man there s something that you oughta know I tell ya Park Avenue leads to Skid Row In The Simpsons episode E I E I D oh Homer is ridiculed by two farmers outside Sneed s Feed amp Seed Formerly Chuck s for having a Park Avenue manicure Homer responds by saying I m sorry I believe in good grooming The PBS documentary Park Avenue Money Power and the American Dream sheds light on the gap between the impoverished people living on Park Avenue in the South Bronx and the extremely wealthy living at 740 Park Avenue in Manhattan General Motors borrowed the name of the street for the Buick Park Avenue a large luxury sedan that was produced first as the premium trim line for the Buick Electra from 1977 to 1990 and as a standalone model from 1991 to 2005 In the 2017 video game Sonic Forces one of the main stage takes place on Park Avenue the stage re imagined as a war zone In the second season of Riverdale one of the main characters from the show Veronica Lodge is said to have lived on Park Avenue when she was back in New York City In an episode in the second season of Seinfeld The Chinese Restaurant one character that cuts in front of the main characters Jerry Elaine and George at a restaurant in Manhattan is said to live there implying that he is incredibly wealthy and deserving of the special treatment In the sixth season of Mad Men Don Draper s address appears on an envelope as 783 Park Avenue apt 17B In the 2012 film The Avengers the climax takes place on the Park Avenue Viaduct In the 2020 miniseries The UndoingGallery edit nbsp Henry P Davison House Percy Rivington Pyne House Oliver D Filley House and William Sloane House is one of the original house ensembles left on Park Avenue nbsp Park Avenue and 47th Street adjacent to the Helmsley Building nbsp 10 Park Avenue at the corner of East 34th Street nbsp The Adelaide L Townsend Douglas House currently the Guatemalan U N Mission at 57 Park Avenue between East 37th and 38th StreetsSee also edit nbsp New York City portalList of most expensive streets by cityReferences editExplanatory notes The line entered fully enclosed brick tunnels between 67th and 71st Streets and between 80th and 96th Streets The remainder of this segment was located in a beam tunnel structure which were mostly open air except where cross streets traversed the cut on steel beam bridges 14 Citations Kuban Adam February 13 2013 Mean Streets The Stories Behind NYC Street Names NYCgo com Google September 10 2015 Fourth Avenue and Union Square East Map Google Maps Google Retrieved September 10 2015 a b c d e f g Google September 10 2015 Park Avenue Manhattan Map Google Maps Google Retrieved September 10 2015 a b Google September 10 2015 Park Avenue The Bronx Map Google Maps Google Retrieved September 10 2015 Gray Christopher May 12 2002 Streetscapes 903 Park Avenue at 79th Street The New York Times NYCityMap NYC gov Gray Christopher March 3 2013 Before There Was a Grand in Central The New York Times Retrieved October 15 2015 Gray Christopher July 24 2011 Putting the Park in Park Avenue The New York Times Retrieved October 15 2015 a b c d e f g Gray Christopher November 7 2008 History Lessons by the Numbers The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved July 20 2021 a b c d e f Fitch James Marston Waite Diana S 1974 Grand Central Terminal and Rockefeller Center A Historic critical Estimate of Their Significance Albany New York The Division THE RAILROAD TRAP Another Day s Scenes at the Grand Central Depot The New York Times November 18 1871 Retrieved December 4 2018 RAILROAD ABUSES Official Investigation into the Grand Central Depot Nuisance Scenes and Incidents at the Crossings Yesterday Search for the Missing Dead Only One Out of the Seven Said to be Killed Yet Found The Coroners and the PoliceUtterly in the Dark The Dangers that Centre Around the New Vanderbilt Depot What the Officials Say Minor Inconveniences The New York Times October 1 2018 Retrieved December 4 2018 The State Capital Rapid Transit of Railroad Bills in the Assembly New York Herald April 24 1872 p 13 Retrieved December 6 2018 via newspapers com nbsp Robins A W New York Transit Museum 2013 Grand Central Terminal 100 Years of a New York Landmark ABRAMS p 85 ISBN 978 1 61312 387 4 Retrieved December 6 2018 Reitano J 2018 The Restless City A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present Taylor amp Francis p 278 ISBN 978 1 134 81048 2 Retrieved December 4 2018 Grand Central Terminal East Side Access in New York Queens and Bronx Counties New York and Nassau and Suffolk Counties New York Environmental Impact Statement 2001 p 3 Retrieved December 4 2018 Gray Christopher March 17 2002 Streetscapes 709 and 711 Park Avenue Between 69th and 70th Streets When Park Ave Was 4th and Not Socially Correct The New York Times Retrieved October 15 2015 FIFTEEN KILLED IN REAR END COLLISION Trains Crash in Darkness of Park Avenue Tunnel TWO SCORE ARE INJURED Engineer Disregards or Fails to See Signals LOCOMOTIVE BURIED IN CAR Firemen Cut Their Way Into the Wreck and Climb Over the Hot Boiler to the Aid of the Wounded Heroic Acts of Rescuers and Rescued Survivors and Others Tell Thrilling Stories of Their Experiences The New York Times January 9 1902 Retrieved December 10 2018 Fifteen Killed Thirty Six Hurt New York Tribune January 9 1902 p 1 Retrieved December 10 2018 via newspapers com nbsp Sprague J L Cunningham J J 2013 A Frank Sprague Triumph The Electrification of Grand Central Terminal History IEEE Power and Energy Magazine Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE 11 1 58 76 doi 10 1109 mpe 2012 2222293 ISSN 1540 7977 S2CID 6729668 NEW YORK CENTRAL TO ACCEPT CITY S PLANS Station Tunnel and Other Improvements to Cost 25 000 000 Park Avenue to be Opened Bridges Built at Cross Streets Electricity Introduced and Grade Crossings Abolished The New York Times December 27 1902 Retrieved December 10 2018 Maranzani Barbara Grand Central Terminal An American Icon History com Retrieved February 2 2018 Gray Christopher August 19 2010 Covering Its Tracks Paid Off Handsomely The New York Times Retrieved December 10 2018 Park Avenue Interrupted The New York Times December 21 2014 Retrieved December 8 2018 a b New Viaduct Thoroughfare Relieves Park Avenue Traffic Congestion Result of Many Years Work PDF The New York Times September 2 1928 p Real Estate Page 123 Retrieved December 7 2018 Link Up Park Av to Ease Congestion The New York Times April 17 1919 Retrieved December 7 2018 a b Appellate Court Scores Officials in Park Ave Suit The Brooklyn Daily Eagle November 4 1927 p 24 Retrieved July 20 2021 Number One Park Avenue The New York Times February 10 1925 ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved July 20 2021 Hylan Veto Halts Park Ave Change The Yonkers Herald April 23 1925 p 8 Retrieved July 20 2021 Bacon s Widow Blocks Trade on Park Avenue Press and Sun Bulletin November 5 1927 p 16 Retrieved July 20 2021 Mrs Bacon s Long Fight to Retain 1 Park Ave as Address Is Finally Lost The Brooklyn Daily Eagle February 19 1928 p 7 Retrieved July 20 2021 Mrs Bacon Loses Fight for No 1 Park Avenue Appeals Court Upholds Renumbering by City The New York Times February 15 1928 ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved July 20 2021 Mrs Bacon May Fight On Reported Ready to Take No 1 Park Avenue Battle to Supreme Court The New York Times February 16 1928 ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved July 20 2021 Kadinsky Sergey October 24 2017 Park Avenue s Hidden History Forgotten NY Retrieved October 25 2017 Rogers Teri Karush October 9 2005 Peeking Behind the Gilded Walls of 740 Park Ave The New York Times Retrieved August 15 2007 Park Avenue Express Highway NY 22 unbuilt Nycroads com February 14 1935 Retrieved October 8 2012 Kilgannon Corey December 3 2010 Park Ave Christmas Lights Go Up and Xiao Ye Closes The New York Times Bennett Charles G May 6 1959 Sign Ban Is Voted on Two Avenues The New York Times p 41 Retrieved July 31 2010 Gray Christopher October 7 2001 Streetscapes The MetLife Building Originally the Pan Am Building Critics Once Called It Ugly Now They re Not Sure The New York Times Retrieved September 30 2015 Stamler Bernard November 16 1997 Neighborhood Report East Side The Mystery of Missing Park Ave Lights The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Archived from the original on July 19 2022 Retrieved October 3 2019 a b Neuman William September 22 2007 It s a Deal Help for Park Ave Pedestrians The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Archived from the original on July 19 2022 Retrieved October 3 2019 Upham Ben December 17 2000 Neighborhood Report Midtown For Jaywalkers Who Dare A Scary Stretch of Park Avenue The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Archived from the original on May 27 2015 Retrieved October 3 2019 Lambert Bruce September 11 1994 Neighborhood Report Midtown Pushing to Make Park Avenue Safer The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Archived from the original on May 26 2015 Retrieved October 3 2019 Pollak Michael September 24 2006 Unwelcome and Uncounted The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Archived from the original on July 19 2022 Retrieved October 3 2019 Goodman Jillian Rovzar Chris July 7 2010 City Finally Installs Crossing Signals on Park Avenue Above Grand Central New York retrieved February 24 2012 Santora Marc amp Rashbaum William K March 13 2014 Rescue Effort in East Harlem Yields Only More Victims New York Times Retrieved March 13 2014 a b NYCityMap NYC gov New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications Retrieved March 20 2020 Records amp Briefs New York State Appellate Division p 7 Retrieved July 20 2021 Pollak Michael July 16 2006 Why Yellow Takes the Wheel The New York Times Retrieved July 31 2010 MNR Map Metropolitan Transportation Authority Retrieved February 2 2019 Subway Map PDF Metropolitan Transportation Authority September 2021 Retrieved September 17 2021 Manhattan Bus Map PDF Metropolitan Transportation Authority July 2019 Retrieved December 1 2020 Staten Island Bus Service PDF Metropolitan Transportation Authority January 2020 Retrieved December 1 2020 Brooklyn Bus Service PDF Metropolitan Transportation Authority October 2020 Retrieved December 1 2020 Bronx Bus Map PDF Metropolitan Transportation Authority October 2018 Retrieved December 1 2020 Green Acres Intro archived from the original on November 17 2021 retrieved November 27 2019Further reading Park Avenue Historic District PDF New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission April 29 2014 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Park Avenue New York Songlines Fourth Avenue with The Bowery and Park Avenue a virtual walking tour Classic Apartments Buildings and Architecture of Park Avenue Images amp History Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Park Avenue amp oldid 1194430448, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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