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Second Avenue is located on the East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan extending from Houston Street at its south end to the Harlem River Drive at 128th Street at its north end. A one-way street, vehicular traffic on Second Avenue runs southbound (downtown) only, except for a one-block segment of the avenue in Harlem .
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The Second Avenue Subway (internally referred to as the IND...
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La Deuxième Avenue est une avenue de l'arrondissement de Manhattan à New York, située dans l'East Side, qui s'étend de Houston Street, dans l'East Village, jusqu'à la Harlem River, au nord de Manhattan.
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Early history
During the American Revolutionary War, a cornfield near 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue was where General George Washington angrily attempted to rally his troops after the British landing at Kip's Bay, which scattered many of the American militiamen. Washington's attempt put him in danger of being captured, and his officers had to persuade him to leave. The rout eventually subsided into an orderly retreat. John Jacob Astor purchased a 70-acre (28 ha) farm in 1803 that ran from 42nd Street to 46t...
19th century
The street was designated by the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 that established the Manhattan street gridas one of 15 crosstown (east-west) streets that would be 100 feet (30 m) in width, while other streets were designated as 60 feet (18 m) in width. In 1835, the city's Street Committee, after receiving numerous complaints about lack of access for development above 14th Street, decided to open up all lots which had already been plotted on the city grid up to 42nd Street, which thus became – fo...
Early 20th century
42nd Street was developed relatively late compared to other crosstown thoroughfares such as 14th Street and 23rd Street, which had grown during the American Civil War, and 57th Street, which became prominent in the 1890s. It was only after the beginning of the 20th century that the street saw entertainment venues being developed around Times Square and upscale office space around Grand Central Terminal. In the first two decades of the 20th century, eleven venues for legitimate theatrewere bui...
(from East to West): 1. Headquarters of the United Nations, First Avenue 2. Tudor Cityapartments, First Avenue 3. Ford Foundation Building, between First and Second Avenues, former site of the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled (now known as the Hospital for Special Surgery) 4. Church of the Covenant, between First and Second Avenues 5. Daily N...
Subway
Every New York City Subwayline that crosses 42nd Street has a stop on 42nd Street: 1. Times Square–42nd Street and 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal (1, 2, 3, 7, <7>, A, C, E, N, Q, R, W, and Strains) 2. 42nd Street/Fifth Avenue-Bryant Park (7, <7>, B, D, F, , and Mtrains) 3. Grand Central–42nd Street (4, 5, 6, <6>, 7, <7>, and Strains) There are two subway lines under 42nd Street. The 42nd Street Shuttle (S train) runs under 42nd Street between Broadway/Seve...
Bus
MTA Regional Bus Operations's M42 bus runs the length of 42nd Street between the Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises ferry terminal on the Hudson River and the headquarters of the United Nations on the East River. Its predecessor, the 42nd Street Crosstown Line streetcar, had used 42nd Street.[citation needed] In 2019, bus laneswere installed along the length of the street. 42nd Street is also used by the SIM8, SIM22, SIM25, SIM26 and SIM30Staten Island express buses.
The George M. Cohan song "Give My Regards to Broadway" includes the lyrics "Tell all the gang at Forty-Second Street / That I will soon be there".The Jim Croce song "You Don't Mess Around with Jim"includes the lyrics "42nd street got Big Jim Walker, he a pool shootin' son of a gun..."The Clash song "The Right Profile" includes the lyrics "New York, New York, 42nd Street"The Billy Joel song "Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)" includes the lyrics "We'd seen it all the time on 42nd Street..."Notes Bibliography 1. Burrows, Edwin G. and Wallace, Mike (1999). Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-195-11634-8. 2. Stern, Robert A. M.; Mellins, Thomas; Fishman, David (1995). New York 1960: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Second World War and the Bicentennial. New York: Monacelli Press. IS...
Ashley West (June 29, 2014). "Marty Hodas: King of the Peeps" (audio interview). The Rialto Report.Le Second Avenue Subway (ou plus simplement ligne T) est une ligne du métro de New York, en cours de construction, et qui fera partie de la future Second Avenue Line. Elle permettra notamment de réduire les problèmes de circulation des lignes 4, 5 et 6, qui sont les seules à desservir l' Upper East Side, le Nord de Manhattan.
19 déc. 2016 · Art Underground: A First Look at the Second Avenue Subway. As the city’s newest train line nears completion, we take you into the stations along the route that will house the artwork of Chuck...
1 janv. 2017 · Jan. 1, 2017. See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com. • After taking nearly a century to build, the Second Avenue subway extension in Manhattan opened...
