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Encyclopedia > 34th Street (Manhattan)
The Empire State building, dominating the skyline.
The Empire State building, dominating the skyline.

34th Street is a major cross-town street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, connecting the Lincoln Tunnel and Queens-Midtown Tunnel. Like many of New York City's major crosstown streets, it has its own bus lines (M16 and M34) and four subway stops serving the A, C and E trains at Eighth Avenue, the 1, 2 and 3 trains at Seventh Avenue, the B, D, F, V, N, Q, R, W and PATH trains at Herald Square, and the 6 train at Park Avenue. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 365 KB) Summary Picture taken by BigMac on September 9, 2005. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 365 KB) Summary Picture taken by BigMac on September 9, 2005. ... New York, NY redirects here. ... The Five Boroughs of New York City: 1: Manhattan 2: Brooklyn 3: Queens 4: Bronx 5: Staten Island In New York City, a borough is a unique form of government used to administer the five constituent counties that make up the city; it differs significantly from other borough forms of... The Borough of Manhattan, highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ... The Lincoln Tunnel is a 1. ... The Queens Midtown Tunnel is a toll road in New York City crosses under the East River and connects the Borough of Queens at Long Island City terminus of I-495 with the Borough of Manhattan between the major crosstown thoroughfares of 34th and 42nd Streets in the Midtown Manhattan... The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system owned by the City of New York and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, an affiliate of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority as MTA New York City Transit. ... The A Eighth Avenue Express and C Eighth Avenue Local are two services of the New York City Subway. ... The A Eighth Avenue Express and C Eighth Avenue Local are two services of the New York City Subway. ... The E Eighth Avenue Local is a service of the New York City Subway. ... Eighth Avenue is a north-south avenue on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City, carrying northbound traffic. ... The 1 Broadway–Seventh Avenue Local is a service of the New York City Subway. ... The 2 Seventh Avenue Express is a service of the New York City Subway. ... The 3 Seventh Avenue Express is a service of the New York City Subway. ... Seventh Avenue is a thoroughfare on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. ... The B Sixth Avenue Express is a service of the New York City Subway. ... The D Sixth Avenue Express is a service of the New York City Subway. ... The F Sixth Avenue Local and V Sixth Avenue Local are two services of the New York City Subway. ... The F Sixth Avenue Local and V Sixth Avenue Local are two services of the New York City Subway. ... The N Broadway Express is a service of the New York City Subway. ... The Q Broadway Express is a service of the New York City Subway. ... Current and former R services The R Broadway Local is a service of the New York City Subway. ... The W Broadway Local is a service of the New York City Subway. ... Late-night and weekend service: The 33rd Street PATH station, opened on November 10, 1910, is located on Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas), between 32nd and 33rd Streets in Manhattan. ... Categories: Stub | Manhattan ... The 6 Lexington Avenue Local is a service of the New York City Subway. ... Park Avenue in the Upper East Side (2004) Park Avenue (formerly Fourth Avenue) is a wide boulevard that carries traffic north and south in Manhattan in New York City. ...

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A walk down 34th Street, west to east

Between 7th Ave. and Broadway you will find Macy's. It claims to be the "world's largest store."
Between 7th Ave. and Broadway you will find Macy's. It claims to be the "world's largest store."

At the west end of the street one finds the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York City's main convention center. On the West Side 34th Street is in the neighborhood Hell's Kitchen. On Tenth Avenue is a McDonald's with a drive through. Later on Eighth, the Post Office and the new Penn Station dominate on the west side and one may catch Amtrak trains to destinations all over the United States and Canada. Above Penn Station sits Madison Square Garden, which calls itself "the world's most famous arena". The steps of James Farley Post Office are grand. Built on the scale of the old (and much missed) Penn Station, the architecture of the post office gives one a flavor of what the area was like in the height of the railroad era. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1200x794, 313 KB) Macys NYC Author: Bernd Untiedt, Germany January 2005 File links The following pages link to this file: Macys ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1200x794, 313 KB) Macys NYC Author: Bernd Untiedt, Germany January 2005 File links The following pages link to this file: Macys ... Macys is a chain of American department stores with its flagship store in Herald Square, New York City, which has been billed as the worlds largest store since completion of the Seventh Avenue addition in 1924. ... Categories: Possible copyright violations ... Ninth Avenue looking north toward Time Warner Center and Hearst Tower Hells Kitchen, also known as Clinton and Midtown West, is a neighborhood of Manhattan that includes roughly the area between 34th Street and 57th Street, from 8th Avenue to the Hudson River. ... Pennsylvania Station (commonly known as Penn Station) is the major intercity rail station and a major commuter rail hub in New York City. ... Acela Express in West Windsor, NJ Amtrak Cascades service with tilting Talgo trainsets in Seattle, Washington Amtrak train in downtown Orlando, Florida For other uses, see Amtrak (disambiguation). ... Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG, known colloquially simply as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City, United States. ... The James A. Farley Post Office, New York Citys General Post Office, is located at 421 Eighth Avenue, between 31st Street and 33rd Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the street from Pennsylvania Station and Madison Square Garden. ...


34th Street is a self-styled shopping street. Though it endured some decline in the 1970s, it has rebounded with new stores and new energy. A giant video board and light display at 34th and Broadway is like a mini Times Square. Between Seventh Avenue and Broadway, one will find Macy's, the famous department store immortalized in the Christmas movie Miracle on 34th Street. It claims to be the "world's largest store." At Sixth Avenue is the Manhattan Mall, an indoor shopping mall built inside what had been the flagship location of the Gimbel's department store. Times Square Times Square is the name given to a principal intersection at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets in the New York City borough of Manhattan. ... Seventh Avenue is a thoroughfare on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. ... A view of Broadway in 1909 Broadway, as the name implies, is a wide avenue in New York City, and is the oldest north-south main thoroughfare in the city, dating to the first New Amsterdam settlement. ... Macys is a chain of American department stores with its flagship store in Herald Square, New York City, which has been billed as the worlds largest store since completion of the Seventh Avenue addition in 1924. ... Christmas is an annual holiday that marks the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. ... Miracle on 34th Street (also titled The Big Heart in the UK) is a 1947 film which tells the story of a gentle old man, working as a Santa Claus at Macys department store in New York City, who contends that he is the real Santa. ... Sixth Avenue looking south from 18th Street Sixth Avenue is a major avenue in New York Citys borough of Manhattan. ... The main entrance of the Manhattan Mall. ... It has been suggested that Retail park be merged into this article or section. ... The references in this article would be clearer with a different and/or consistent style of citation, footnoting or external linking. ...


After the chaos of the shopping district, the influence of the East Side and the sedate corporate office towers of the neighborhoods Kips Bay and Murray Hill starts to take hold. On Fifth Avenue one finds the Empire State Building. The tallest building in the city, it stands on a rare ledge of solid Manhattan schist dominating the skyline. At the far end one finds bulky luxury residential buildings and a great number of dogs patronizing the pet care parlors that serve the pure-bred loving populations of Kips Bay. View from Kips Bay mall The Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan is the area between 23rd Street and 34th Street extending from the East River to Third Avenue. ... The Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan extends south from 42nd street to meet the neighborhood of Gramercy (or Rose Hill/Curry Hill as the northern half of Gramercy is often referred to) at 29th street. ... Fifth Avenue looking south from 38th Street From The Wickedest Woman in New York: Madame Restell, the Abortionist Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the center of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, USA. It runs through the heart of Midtown and along the eastern side of... The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York City. ... Schist The schists form a group of medium-grade metamorphic rocks, chiefly notable for the preponderance of lamellar minerals such as micas, chlorite, talc, hornblende, graphite, and others. ...


Places along 34th Street

Places located along 34th Street include (from west to east):

Categories: Possible copyright violations ... Manhattan Center Studios is home to two world class Recording Studios located in the heart of Midtown Manhattan. ... The Hammerstein Ballroom is a two-tiered, 12,000 square feet (3658m2) ballroom located within the Manhattan Center Studios on 311 West 34th Street in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States of America. ... Macys is a chain of American department stores with its flagship store in Herald Square, New York City, which has been billed as the worlds largest store since completion of the Seventh Avenue addition in 1924. ... The main entrance of the Manhattan Mall. ... Categories: Stub | Manhattan ... One Penn Plaza from 34th Street One Penn Plaza is a skyscraper near Pennsylvania Station in New York City, west of Seventh Avenue, between 33rd and 34th Streets. ... The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York City. ... H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB (operating as H&M), is a Swedish clothing company, known for their inexpensive and fashionable clothing offerings. ... The cover of a Victorias Secret catalog from 1990. ... Forever 21 is a chain of clothing retailers throughout the United States, offering inexpensive, trendy fashions and accessories for women and junior girls. ...

Intersections from east to west

FDR Drive is a major freeway-standard parkway on the east side of the New York City borough of Manhattan. ... First Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare on the East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan, running from Houston Street northbound for over 125 blocks before terminating at the Willis Avenue Bridge into The Bronx at the Harlem River near East 127th Street. ... Looking south on Second Avenue from 85th Street, May 2005 Second Avenue is an avenue on the East Side of Manhattan in New York City that extends from Houston Street to the Harlem River Drive. ... Third Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare on the East Side of Manhattan in New York City, running in that borough from East 4th Street north for over 120 blocks. ... Lexington Avenue is an avenue on the East Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City that carries southbound one-way traffic from East 131st Street to Gramercy Park at East 21st Street. ... Park Avenue in the Upper East Side (2004) Park Avenue (formerly Fourth Avenue) is a wide boulevard that carries traffic north and south in Manhattan in New York City. ... Madison Avenue, looking north from 40th Street Madison Avenue is a north-south avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City that carries northbound one-way traffic. ... Fifth Avenue looking south from 38th Street From The Wickedest Woman in New York: Madame Restell, the Abortionist Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the center of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, USA. It runs through the heart of Midtown and along the eastern side of... Sixth Avenue looking south from 18th Street Sixth Avenue is a major avenue in New York Citys borough of Manhattan. ... A view of Broadway in 1909 Broadway, as the name implies, is a wide avenue in New York City, and is the oldest north-south main thoroughfare in the city, dating to the first New Amsterdam settlement. ... Seventh Avenue is the name of a: Street in Manhattan (Seventh Avenue (Manhattan)) Band (Seventh Avenue (Band)) ... Eighth Avenue is a north-south avenue on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City, carrying northbound traffic. ... Ninth Avenue / Columbus Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. ... Dyer Avenue is a north-south short thoroughfare on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. ... The Lincoln Tunnel is a 1. ... View of Amsterdam Avenue looking south from the Columbia University overpass between West 116th and 117th Streets View north from the overpass Tenth Avenue / Amsterdam Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. ... Eleventh Avenue / West End 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. ... The old elevated highway, looking north at Gansevoort Street The old elevated highway, looking north at Canal Street The West Side Highway (officially the Joe DiMaggio Highway, formerly the Miller Highway) is a mostly-surface section of New York State Highway 9A in Lower Manhattan, New York City, USA. As...

Subway stations

  • 34th Street–Herald Square (New York City Subway)
  • 34th Street–Penn Station (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)
  • 34th Street–Penn Station (IND Eighth Avenue Line)

34th Street–Herald Square is a New York City Subway station complex on the BMT Broadway Line and the IND Sixth Avenue Line. ... 34th Street–Penn Station is a station on the IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. ... 34th Street–Penn Station is a station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of 34th Street and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan, and adjacent to Pennsylvania Station. ...

See also

This article covers streets in Manhattan, New York City, USA between and including 23rd Street and 42nd Street. ... Miracle on 34th Street (also titled The Big Heart in the UK) is a 1947 film which tells the story of a gentle old man, working as a Santa Claus at Macys department store in New York City, who contends that he is the real Santa. ... Koreatown, Manhattan Koreatown, or K-town as it is colloquially known, is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, that is generally bordered by 31st and 36th Streets and Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenues. ... View from Kips Bay mall The Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan is the area between 23rd Street and 34th Street extending from the East River to Third Avenue. ...

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