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East 60th Street Heliport (IATA: JRE, ICAO: KJRE, FAA LID: 6N4) was a public heliport on the Upper East Side of Manhattan located between the East River and the FDR Drive. Also known as the Pan Am Metroport, the city-owned facility was originally operated by Pan American World Airways. The heliport opened in 1968 and closed in 1998.
Significant buildings on West 80th Street include those in the Riverside Drive–West 80th–81st Street Historic District, on both sides of the street's block between Riverside Drive and West End Avenue, such as the "Gothicesque" row houses at 307–317 West 80th Street designed by Charles H. Israels, and those at 319–323 West 80th Street ...
Manhattan has a station on Metra's SouthWest Service, which provides weekday rail service [10] [11] to Chicago, Illinois (at Union Station). Manhattan is the southern terminus of the line. [12] U.S. Route 52 is the only numbered highway serving Manhattan; US 52 runs in the northwest–southeast direction through Manhattan. [13]
The Shefa School is currently located at 40 East 29th Street in Manhattan. In addition to classrooms and break-out spaces for small group learning, the campus also includes facilities for STEM programs. It was designed by HLW International. In order to support the build-out of the new space and the school's expansion in 2016, the board of ...
Privately owned public spaces (POPS) in New York City were introduced in the 1961 Zoning Resolution. The city offers zoning concessions to commercial and residential developers in exchange for a variety of spaces accessible and usable for the public. There are over 590 POPS at over 380 buildings in New York City and are found principally in Manhattan. Spaces range from extended sidewalks to ...
In 1858, the Paulist Fathers first took possession of a frame house containing a small chapel at 14 West 60th Street. [11] The community's motherhouse is on West 59th Street, adjacent to the church. The present building dates from the 1930s. The life of the parish has mirrored the growth, decline and rebirth of the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood ...
At the time, Fifth Avenue was a two-way street, so the expanded plaza provided access for northbound traffic on Fifth Avenue. [19] During the late 19th century, the Fifth Avenue Plaza was used almost entirely by vehicles. There was a cross-shaped traffic island to the south of 59th Street and a larger traffic circle to the north of that street ...
The 60th Street Tunnel Connection [1] [2] or 11th Street Cut [3] is a short rapid transit line of the New York City Subway, within the Long Island City neighborhood in Queens. It connects the 60th Street Tunnel under the East River (which connects to the BMT Broadway Line in Manhattan) with the IND Queens Boulevard Line west of Queens Plaza ...