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New York City--the new Woman's Hospital, corner of Fiftieth Street and Fourth Avenue, Manhattan. (1876) New York Dispensary for Diseases of the Throat and Chest, (1840–1870). New York Infirmary, 127-129 Broad Street, Manhattan. See New York-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital, in the section on hospitals in Manhattan above.
Columbus Circle is the traditional municipal zero-mile point from which all official city distances are measured, [67] although Google Maps uses New York City Hall for this purpose. [136] For decades, Hagstrom sold maps that showed the areas within 25 miles (40 km) [ 137 ] or 75 miles (121 km) from Columbus Circle.
This is a list of neighborhoods in the New York City borough of Manhattan arranged geographically from the north of the island to the south. The following approximate definitions are used: Upper Manhattan is the area above 96th Street. Midtown Manhattan is the area between 34th Street and 59th Street. Lower Manhattan is the area below 14th Street.
The Columbus Monument is a 76-foot (23 m) column in the center of Columbus Circle in New York City honoring the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, who first made an expedition to the New World in 1492. The monument was created by Italian sculptor Gaetano Russo in 1892.
The elevated railroad, pictured in 1915, reached its highest elevation in New York City at the 110th Street curve. Central Park North and Fifth Avenue Lincoln Correctional Facility Frederick Douglass Circle 110th Street seen from Broadway in the west toward Riverside Park. 110th Street is a street in the New York City borough of Manhattan.
Eighth Avenue is a major north–south avenue on the west side of Manhattan in New York City, carrying northbound traffic below 59th Street. It is one of the original avenues of the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 to run the length of Manhattan, though today the name changes twice: At 59th Street/Columbus Circle, it becomes Central Park West, where it forms the western boundary of Central Park ...
89th Street is a one-way street running westbound from the East River to Riverside Drive, overlooking the Hudson River, in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The street is interrupted by Central Park. It runs through the Upper West Side, Carnegie Hill and Yorkville neighborhoods.
5 Columbus Circle is on the southeastern corner of Broadway and 58th Street, one block south of Columbus Circle and Central Park in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. The building carries the addresses 1784–1790 Broadway and 234 West 58th Street. [2] The site measures 108 by 126 feet (33 by 38 m).