51st Street

Coordinates: 40°45′23″N 73°58′13″W / 40.756456°N -73.970311°E / 40.756456; -73.970311

51st Street
Maintained by:	City of New York
Length:	1.9 mi (3.1 km)
Location:	New York
East end:	Beekman Place
West end:	NY 9A West Side Highway

51st Street is a 1.9-mile (3.1 km) long one-way street traveling east to west across Midtown Manhattan.

East 51st Street

• The route officially begins at Beekman Place which is on a hill overlooking FDR Drive. 51st continues for a few feet east of the intersection but the street sign refers to it as Peter Detmold Park (a reference to the dog park at the bottom of the hill) which has a pedestrian walk way over the FDR to the East River
• Yemen Mission to the United Nations

First Avenue (Manhattan)

• 351 East 51st Street - An apartment complex on one of several sites where Nathan Hale is believed to have been hanged, after the Battle of Long Island
• Laos Mission to the United Nations

Second Avenue (Manhattan)

Equatorial Guinea mission

Sutton Place Synagogue (Jewish Center for the United Nations)

Venezuela consulate

• Tonga Mission to the United Nations
• Equatorial Guinea Mission to the United Nations
• POD Hotel
• Greenacre Park
• Jewish Center for the United Nations

Third Avenue (Manhattan)

• 17th Precinct of New York City Police
• Engine Company No 8, Ladder 2, 8th Battalion of New York City Fire Department
• Double Tree Hotel
• Great Britain Consulate

Lexington Avenue (Manhattan)

• General Electric Building
• St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, New York
• 345 Park Avenue

Park Avenue (Manhattan)

• 350 Park Avenue
• 320 Park Avenue
• The New York Palace Hotel

Madison Avenue (Manhattan)

• St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York
• Venezuela Consulate
• Olympic Tower

West 51st Street

Fifth Avenue (Manhattan)

• Rockefeller Center
• Radio City Music Hall
• 1290 Avenue of the Americas

Avenue of the Americas

• Time-Life Building
• SportsNet New York Studios
• 1285 Avenue of the Americas
• 787 Seventh Avenue
• Millennium Plaza (former Taft Hotel)

Seventh Avenue (Manhattan)

• Sheraton Manhattan

Broadway (Manhattan)

• Novotel Manhattan
• Paramount Plaza
• Mars 2112
• Mark Hellinger Theatre
• Times Square Church
• George Gershwin Theatre

Eighth Avenue (Manhattan)

• St. Paul's House - Church founded by J.J.D. Hall that is noted for its "Sin Will Find You Out" neon sign in the shape of a cross that was featured on Saturday Night Live

Ninth Avenue (Manhattan)

• Closed Midtown Branch of Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center (formerly St. Clares Hospital)

Tenth Avenue (Manhattan)

Eleventh Avenue (Manhattan)

• Hustler Club

West Side Highway

The route concludes at the West Side Highway (New York Route 9A). Opposite the intersection is the New York Passenger Ship Terminal and the Hudson River

References

• [1] Emporis West 51st profile
• 51st Street: A New York Songline - virtual walking tour