Sixth Avenue

Sixth Avenue
Avenue of the Americas
	The "skyscraper alley" of International Style buildings along the avenue looking north from 40th Street to Central Park
Namesake	The Americas
Owner	City of New York
Maintained by	NYCDOT
Length	3.7 mi (6.0 km)
Location	Manhattan, New York City
South end	Church / Franklin Streets in Tribeca
Major; junctions	Herald Square in Midtown
North end	Central Park South / Center Drive in Midtown
East	Fifth Avenue (north of Waverly Pl)
West	Varick Street (south of Houston Street); Seventh Avenue (Houston Street to 34th Street); Broadway (between 34th and 45th Streets); Seventh Avenue (between 45th and 59th Streets)
Construction
Commissioned	March 1811

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Sixth Avenue – also known as Avenue of the Americas, although this name is seldom used by New Yorkers^[2]^[3]^[4] – is a major thoroughfare in New York City's borough of Manhattan, on which traffic runs northbound, or "uptown". It is commercial for much of its length.

Sixth Avenue begins four blocks below Canal Street, at Franklin Street in Tribeca, where the northbound Church Street divides into Sixth Avenue to the left and the local continuation of Church Street to the right, which then ends at Canal Street. From this beginning, Sixth Avenue traverses SoHo and Greenwich Village, roughly divides Chelsea from the Flatiron District and NoMad, passes through the Garment District and skirts the edge of the Theater District while passing through Midtown Manhattan.

Sixth Avenue's northern end is at Central Park South, adjacent to the Artists' Gate entrance to Central Park via Center Drive. Historically, Sixth Avenue was also the name of the road that continued north of Central Park, but that segment was renamed Lenox Avenue in 1887 and co-named Malcolm X Boulevard in 1987.^[5]

^ Google (September 13, 2015). "Sixth Avenue" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved September 13, 2015.
^ Moscow, Henry (1978). The Street Book: An Encyclopedia of Manhattan's Street Names and Their Origins. New York: Hagstrom Company. ISBN 978-0-8232-1275-0., p.24
^ Finnegan, Jack (2007). Newcomer's Handbook For Moving to and Living in New York City. First Books. p. 43. Avenue of the Americas, a name rarely used by New Yorkers
^ Cudahy, Brian J. (1995). Under the Sidewalks of New York. Fordham University Press. p. 132. New Yorkers stubbornly resist calling Sixth Avenue by the name it has officially borne since the La Guardia years
^ Bodovitz, Sandra (July 20, 1987). "What's in a Street Rename? Disorder". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 28, 2019.

[google_maps-1] Google (September 13, 2015). "Sixth Avenue" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved September 13, 2015.

[streetbook-2] Moscow, Henry (1978). The Street Book: An Encyclopedia of Manhattan's Street Names and Their Origins. New York: Hagstrom Company. ISBN 978-0-8232-1275-0., p.24

[3] Finnegan, Jack (2007). Newcomer's Handbook For Moving to and Living in New York City. First Books. p. 43. Avenue of the Americas, a name rarely used by New Yorkers

[cudahy1-4] Cudahy, Brian J. (1995). Under the Sidewalks of New York. Fordham University Press. p. 132. New Yorkers stubbornly resist calling Sixth Avenue by the name it has officially borne since the La Guardia years

[5] Bodovitz, Sandra (July 20, 1987). "What's in a Street Rename? Disorder". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 28, 2019.

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