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Eastern portal of 178th St tunnel. The 178th and 179th Street Tunnels are two disused vehicular tunnels in Upper Manhattan in New York City.Originally conceived and constructed under the auspices of Robert Moses, the twin tunnels have been superseded by the Trans-Manhattan Expressway in Washington Heights, which itself runs through a cut with high-rise apartments built over it in places.
St. Nicholas Avenue is a major street that runs obliquely north-south through several blocks between 111th and 193rd Streets in the New York City borough of Manhattan. St. Nicholas Avenue serves as a border between the West Side of Harlem and Central Harlem.
The Boys Choir of Harlem was established in the neighborhood in 1968. [9] In 1973, the name of the land was changed to Marcus Garvey Park. This was in honor of the international Pan-African movement leader. In 1973, a part of the current district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1]
The St. Nicholas Historic District, known colloquially as "Striver's Row", [3] is a historic district located on both sides of West 138th and West 139th Streets between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (Seventh Avenue) and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (Eighth Avenue), in the Harlem neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City.
The buildings are between 178th and 179th Streets on Audubon Avenue, St. Nicholas Avenue, and Wadsworth Avenue, in the neighborhood of Washington Heights in the New York City borough of Manhattan. They are built directly above the 12-lane [ 2 ] Trans-Manhattan Expressway on its approach to the George Washington Bridge , on top of four concrete ...
The station is on Fort Washington Avenue with entrances at 175th Street and 177th Street, the latter one block south of the bus station. [63] The subway station, operated by the New York City Transit Authority and served by the A train, [ 64 ] was part of the Independent Subway System (IND)'s first line, the IND Eighth Avenue Line , which ...
As part of a major NYCDOT reconstruction project from 2001-2005, a new swing span was floated into place on October 29, 2004. Two lanes of Manhattan-bound traffic opened on December 6, 2004, and the remaining three lanes opened in 2005.
Harlem River Drive is a 4.20-mile (6.76 km) controlled-access parkway in the New York City borough of Manhattan.It runs along the west bank of the Harlem River from the Triborough Bridge in East Harlem to 10th Avenue in Inwood, where the parkway ends and the road continues northwest as Dyckman Street.