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Encyclopedia > Amsterdam Avenue (Manhattan)

Tenth Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It carries uptown (northbound) traffic only. Manhattan Borough,highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ... The Empire State Building (right) and the Chrysler Building (left) are easily recognized symbols of New York City to the world. ...


Tenth Avenue begins at West 13th Street and the West Side Highway in the West Village / Meatpacking District and it runs northbound for 44 blocks to the intersection of West 57th Street, after which the roadway continues without any sort of impediment but is renamed Amsterdam Avenue. 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... Greenwich Village (pronounced Grennich Village; also known as the West Village or simply the Village) is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern) Manhattan in New York City. ... The Meatpacking District, also known as Gansevoort Market, is a neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City. ...


As Amsterdam Avenue, the thoroughfare continues for 133 more blocks before reaching High Bridge Park, where the roadway is briefly renamed as Fort George Avenue before it terminates. North of High Bridge Park, however, a stretch of roadway called Tenth Avenue (not Amsterdam Avenue) runs for several blocks, before terminating at the intersection of West 218th Street and Broadway, near the extreme northern tip of the island of Manhattan and the Broadway Bridge, which crosses the Harlem River. 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. ... The Broadway Bridge in New York City crosses the Harlem Ship Canal between Inwood and Marble Hill, both parts of Manhattan (the latter on the mainland, attached to the Bronx, due to the rerouting of the Harlem River). ... The Harlem River, shown in red, between the Bronx and Manhattan in New York City The Harlem River is a tidal strait in New York City, USA that flows 8 miles between the East River and the Hudson River, separating the borough of Manhattan from the Bronx. ...

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Manhattan Valley: Information from Answers.com (1493 words)
Manhattan Valley is a neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, bounded by West 110th Street to the north, Central Park West to the east, West 96th Street or 100th Street to the south, and Broadway to the west.
Manhattan Valley occupies a natural depression running east-west across Manhattan, declining rapidly from high rocky bluffs at the western border of modern Central Park, and following west the valley created by what was once a minor stream draining from roughly the area of the Harlem Meer into the Hudson River.
Manhattan Valley has gentrified significantly since the 1980s, along with the rest of the Upper West Side and Harlem, under steady encroachment north from the "traditional" Upper West Side and south from Morningside Heights.
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The waviness of the aqueduct's path between Highbridge and 150th street indicates the waviness of the terrain; in much of this area, the aqueduct was essentially built into the side of the rocky hill that slants down very sharply toward the east river.
The old 119th street gatehouse in the middle of Amsterdam, however, was considered a traffic hazard, and was replaced from 1894-1895 with a new Gatehouse on the east side of the road-- the south-east corner of 119th and Amsterdam Ave.
The gatehouse on the northwest corner of Amsterdam Ave and 113th still stands, although it in the 1990s it was sold by the city to the Amsterdam Nursing Home and Adult Daycare center, and was renovated by the Geddis Partnership Archtitects.
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