Manhattan Avenue

Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn

Manhattan Avenue is the name of two streets in New York City.

Brooklyn

Manhattan Avenue is the major shopping street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This part of Greenpoint is also called Little Poland for its high concentration of Polish culture and of Polish-named businesses and signage. The north end was formerly connected to Long Island City by the Vernon Boulevard Bridge. The south end is at Broadway. A southern part of the avenue is one way north bound; the rest is two-way. The IND Crosstown Line subway runs under Manhattan Avenue.

Greenpoint Savings Bank on Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn

Manhattan Ave. & 106th St., looking north.

Manhattan

Not an originally planned street of New York City, Manhattan Avenue in Manhattan Valley saw its first buildings in 1885, a group of row houses on its western side. These buildings were brick with stone and terra-cotta trim.^[1] The now defunct New York Cancer Hospital, a landmark since 1976^[2] is nearby on Central Park West.

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