Eleventh Avenue (Manhattan)

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See also: West Side Highway

The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center

Frank Gehry's IAC Building and Jean Nouvel's Nouvel 100 behind it

The Starrett-Lehigh Building

Silver Towers

Eleventh Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare on the far West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, not far from the Hudson River. Eleventh Avenue originates in the Meatpacking District in the West Village neighborhood at Gansevoort Street, where Eleventh Avenue, Tenth Avenue and West Street all terminate or begin.

Description

Between Gansevoort Street and West 22nd Street, Eleventh Avenue is part of the West Side Highway, a very wide expressway. At a split with Twelfth Avenue/West Side Highway at West 22nd Street, Eleventh Avenue continues as a standard–width avenue.

Following the split, Eleventh Avenue is two-way traffic for access to 23rd and 24th Streets (to access Chelsea Piers), and is one-way southbound from 24th to 44th Streets, where two-way traffic resumes. Formerly, there was two-way traffic between 34th Street and 40th Street for access to the Lincoln Tunnel, but recent construction has made that segment of Eleventh Avenue southbound-only.

The West Side Line of the New York Central Railroad once had on-street running along part of Eleventh Avenue, popularly called "Death Avenue".

The segment between approximately West 39th Street and West 59th Street is home to the largest concentration of auto dealerships in Manhattan. Mercedes-Benz is located across from the westbound Lincoln Tunnel Portal, with BMW and Lexus at the intersection with West 57th Street. Manhattan Motorcars (located at 270 Eleventh Avenue) is New York City's official Lamborghini, Bentley, Rolls-Royce, Spyker Cars, Porsche, and Lotus dealership. As well, numerous vehicle service stations, car washes, and car rental lots are found along this stretch. This area has served the transport trade for more than a hundred years; most of the stables for New York's remaining horse cabs are located on its side streets, though many now store taxis and pedicabs.

The portion north of 59th Street is called West End Avenue, which in the 60s has mixed commercial and residential use. The northern 2 miles (3.2 km) are a sedate Upper West Side residential street ending at Straus Park, 106th Street and Broadway. It runs from 59th Street to its termination where it merges with Broadway at 107th Street, at Straus Park. Traffic is two way, except for the northernmost block.

In 1934, a bill was passed for the Henry Hudson Parkway to be constructed, meant to be an alternative route to "Death Avenue".

Points of interest

Points of interest on or within one block of 11th Avenue include:

• Chelsea Market (between 15th and 16th Streets)
• Chelsea Piers (at 23rd Street and West Side Highway)
• Comedy Central:
  • Studios of The Colbert Report on 54th Street
  • Studios of The Daily Show at 51st Street
• Former: Copacabana Nightclub at 34th Street (now at 47th Street in midtown; former site occupied by a subway entrance As of 2014)
• DeWitt Clinton Park (between 52nd Street and 54th Street)
• The High Line (roughly parallel to Eleventh Avenue from Gansevoort Street to 34th Street)
• The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center (between 34th and 39th Streets)
• Michael J. Quill Bus Depot of the MTA (at 41st Street)
• Pomander Walk
• Riverside Park
• Silver Towers at 41st/42nd Streets
• 200 Eleventh Avenue, corner West 24th Street, designed by Annabelle Selldorf, includes apartments with a "Sky Garage", allowing cars to be parked directly outside the apartment. Notable residents include Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, Domenico Dolce, and L'Wren Scott.

Mass transit

In 2014, Eleventh Avenue will be served by the 7 and <7>​ trains as part of the 7 Subway Extension, at a station at 34th Street.

External links

• Media related to 11th Avenue (Manhattan) at Wikimedia Commons