Third Avenue

40°49′54.79″N 73°54′19.57″W / 40.8318861°N 73.9054361°W / 40.8318861; -73.9054361

Third Avenue

Looking north from 9th Street in 2007
Owner	City of New York
Maintained by	NYCDOT
Length	10.7 mi (17.2 km)[1][2]
Location	Manhattan and the Bronx in New York City
South end	Astor Place / St. Mark's Place in Cooper Square
Major junctions	Harlem River Drive in East Harlem I-87 in Mott Haven I-95 in Morrisania/Tremont
North end	US 1 (Fordham Road) in Fordham
East	Second Avenue
West	Fourth Avenue (between 8th and 14th Streets) Irving Place (between 14th and 20th Streets Lexington Avenue (north of 21st Street)
Construction
Commissioned	March 1811

A Third Avenue flower shop in the 1970s

Scheffel Hall (1895) is a remnant of the time when Kleindeutschland extended up Third Avenue as far as East 17th Street

Third Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare on the East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan, as well as in the center portion of the Bronx. Its southern end is at Astor Place and St. Mark's Place. It transitions into Cooper Square, and further south, the Bowery, Chatham Square, and Park Row. The Manhattan side ends at East 128th Street. Third Avenue is two-way from Cooper Square to 24th Street, but carries only northbound (uptown) traffic while in Manhattan above 24th Street; in the Bronx, it is again two-way. However, the Third Avenue Bridge carries vehicular traffic in the opposite direction, allowing only southbound vehicular traffic, rendering the avenue essentially non-continuous to motor vehicles between the boroughs.

The street leaves Manhattan and continues into the Bronx across the Harlem River over the Third Avenue Bridge north of East 129th Street to East Fordham Road at Fordham Center, where it intersects with U.S. 1. It is one of the four streets that form The Hub, a site of both maximum traffic and architectural density, in the South Bronx.^[3]