Lexington Avenue

Lexington Avenue
Irving Place
Lexington Avenue seen from the top of the Chrysler Building
Map
NamesakeBattle of Lexington[1]
Maintained byNYCDOT
Length5.8 mi (9.3 km)[2][3]
LocationManhattan, New York City, U.S.
South end14th Street in Gramercy Park
Major
junctions
Third Avenue Bridge in East Harlem
North end131st Street in East Harlem
EastThird Avenue
WestPark Avenue
Construction
Commissioned1832
Completion1836

Lexington Avenue, often colloquially abbreviated as "Lex", is an avenue on the East Side of Manhattan in New York City. The avenue carries southbound one-way traffic from East 131st Street to Gramercy Park at East 21st Street. Along its 5.5-mile (8.9-kilometer), 110-block route, Lexington Avenue runs through Harlem, Carnegie Hill, the Upper East Side, Midtown, and Murray Hill to a point of origin that is centered on Gramercy Park. South of Gramercy Park, the axis continues as Irving Place from 20th Street to East 14th Street.

Lexington Avenue was not one of the streets included in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 street grid, so the addresses for cross streets do not start at an even hundred number, as they do with avenues that were originally part of the plan.

  1. ^ Alpern, Andrew (January 1, 1992). Luxury Apartment Houses of Manhattan: An Illustrated History. Courier Corporation. ISBN 9780486273709 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Google (September 10, 2015). "Lexington Avenue" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved September 10, 2015.
  3. ^ Google (September 10, 2015). "Irving Place" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved September 10, 2015.

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