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79th Street (Manhattan)
79th Street is a major two-way street in the Upper East Side and Upper West Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan. East 79th Street stretches from East End Avenue to Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side, where it enters Central Park through Children's Gate. The 79th Street Transverse crosses Central Park, connecting Hunters Gate at West 81st Street on the Upper West Side to Children's Gate on East 79th. 79th Street does not exist between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue, due to the superblock occupied by the American Museum of Natural History. West of Columbus Avenue, 79th Street continues and terminates at a traffic circle directly after the exit/entrance ramps for the Henry Hudson Parkway, under which sit the Boat Basin Cafe and 79th Street Boat Basin.
On the west side, the street is entirely within the boundaries of ZIP Code 10024; on the east side, as of July 1, 2007, the ZIP Code for this part of the Lenox Hill Post Office Branch changed from 10021 to 10075.[1]
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History
The interchange on the Hudson River and the boat basin was first proposed in 1934 and was constructed by 1937 during the tenure of Robert Moses as Parks Commissioner. It was part of the "79th Street Grade Crossing Elimination Structure" which created a grand architectural multi-level entry and exit from the Henry Hudson Parkway while eliminating a grade crossing of the New York Central Railroad's West Side Line by covering it over and creating the Freedom Tunnel.[2] Designed by Gilmore David Clarke, the Works Projects Administration provided $5.1 million for the project, which also included an underground parking garage, a restaurant, and the marina.[3]
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Transportation
The 79th Street station on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line is located at the intersection of 79th Street and Broadway, it is served by the 1 train at all times and 2 train during late nights.
The M79 79th Street crosstown bus route runs from between the 79th Street Boat Basin and East End Avenue at all times.[6]
Notable locations
- At Broadway stands The Apthorp (Clinton and Russell, architects, 1908), one of the West Side's classic apartment blocks, and the First Baptist Church in the City of New York (George M. Kaiser, architect, 1891).
- Between 6th and 7th Avenues, on the line of West 79th Street as it was drawn through what became Central Park was the south end of the Receiving Reservoir, a vital storage part of the Croton Aqueduct of 1842. Water was piped down from Westchester County, over the Harlem River and down the west side to the Receiving Reservoir, located between 79th and 86th Streets and Sixth and Seventh Avenues in an area then known as Yorkville.[7] The Reservoir was a fortress-like building 1,826 feet (557 m) long and 836 feet (255 m) wide, and held up to 180 million US gallons (680,000 m3) of water, 35 million US gallons (130,000 m3) flowed into it daily from northern Westchester.
- Mayor Michael Bloomberg lives in a five-story townhouse at 17 East 79th Street, between Madison Avenue and Fifth Avenue.[8] Other notable residents of 79th Street include Tom Wolfe, Art Garfunkel[9] and Eliot Spitzer.[10] Socialite Nan Kempner lived on 79th Street at Park Avenue.[11]
- The south side of the block between Fifth and Madison is protected as a rare unbroken row of townhouses. It begins at the corner of Fifth with the French Renaissance Harry F. Sinclair House (1897-98), now housing the Ukrainian Institute.
- The New York Society Library, at 53 East 79th street, is the city's oldest (1754) circulating library; it occupies a double-width townhouse built for John S. and Catherine Dodge Rogers, (Trowbridge & Livingston, 1916-18).Christopher Gray, "The New York Society Library: The John S. Rogers House", 2008
- East 79th Street is an unnumbered southbound only entrance to the FDR Drive.
- East 79th Street is the southern end of East End Avenue, which runs north-south to 90th Street.
References
- ^ 10021 Zip Code Split, Representative Carolyn Maloney press release. Accessed August 1, 2008.
- ^ "WEST SIDE TRAFFIC TO RUN ON 4 LEVELS; Grade Elimination Structure at 79th St. Announced as Part of Park Plan. MOTORISTS TO BE AIDED Express Highway Will Pass Over Central Tracks With Pedestrian Arcade Below.", The New York Times, June 15, 1934. Accessed August 2, 2008.
- ^ Henry Hudson Parkway.
- ^ landmarks Preservation Commission: Description and analysis May 19, 1981
- ^ St. Monica's parish history
- ^ M79 Bus Timetable, New York City Bus, effective September 2009. Accessed January 25, 2010.
- ^ Acitelli, Tom. "The Sit-Down:Morrison Heckscher, On the Park", The New York Observer, March 25, 2008. Accessed August 1, 2008. "And the receiving reservoir of the Croton Aqueduct System—on a high plot of land between 79th and 86th streets, between Sixth and Seventh avenues, right outside my office there—that was completed in 1842."
- ^ Jones, Richard Lezin. "Billionaire Next Door Is a Regular Kind of Guy", The New York Times, November 11, 2001. Accessed August 1, 2008. "At Mr. Bloomberg's home -- a five-story, $5 million limestone town house at 17 East 79th Street -- the special round-the-clock police detail that typically keeps guard over the mayor-elect has already begun."
- ^ Arnold, Hallie. "One more drug offense could land Garfunkel in jail", Kingston Daily Freeman, August 31, 2005. Accessed August 1, 2008. "Garfunkel, who lives on East 79th Street in Manhattan, pleaded guilty in that case and paid a $100 fine and a $100 surcharge."
- ^ Hakim, Danny; and O'Connor, Ahmad. "Spitzer to Resign Soon; Paterson Set as Successor", The New York Times, March 12, 2008. Accessed August 1, 2008. "Mr. Spitzer, who had been holed up at his apartment at Fifth Avenue and 79th Street in Manhattan since issuing an apology on Tuesday, emerged at about 11:15 a.m."
- ^ Haden-Guest, Anthony. "Vanity fare: She is the legendary New York socialite: stick thin, fabulously wealthy and dressed head to toe in couture. Here, Nan Kempner reveals why she hates fat people... but loves high fashion and junk food", The Observer, August 12, 2001. Accessed August 1, 2008. "There are two paintings by the great Surrealist René Magritte in the living room of the apartment where Kempner lives with her broker husband, Thomas, on Park Avenue and 79th Street."
Coordinates: 40°47′04″N 73°58′53″W / 40.784425°N -73.981397°E
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