Everything about Tenth Avenue Manhattan totally explained
Tenth Avenue /
Amsterdam Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare on the West Side of
Manhattan in
New York City. It carries uptown (northbound) traffic only south of West
110th Street at the northern edge of
Central Park, but is two-way north of it.
Tenth Avenue begins at West
13th Street and the
West Side Highway in the
West Village /
Meatpacking District and it runs uptown (northbound) for 47 blocks until its intersection with West
59th Street, where it's resigned (like the other
West Side avenues) as
Amsterdam Avenue but continues without interruption.
As Amsterdam Avenue, the thoroughfare stretches 129 blocks north before reaching
Highbridge Park at West
190th Street, where the roadway is briefly renamed as Fort George Avenue before it terminates. The street narrows to one lane in each direction as passes through the campus of
Yeshiva University's Wilf Campus, between 184th and 186th streets. Following the roadway's interruption by Highbridge Park, it continues in the same line as Tenth Avenue, running for slightly less than a mile, originating at
Dyckman Street and terminating at the intersection of West
218th Street and
Broadway, near the extreme northern tip of the island of Manhattan and the
Broadway Bridge, which crosses the
Harlem River.
The thoroughfare's segment south of Highbridge Park, running a total of 177 blocks, is the longest continuous avenue in Manhattan, excluding
Broadway, the
West Side Highway and the
FDR Drive (none of which are strictly an avenue).
The ballet
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue recalls the dangerous early 20th century decades in Hells Kitchen. In the 19th century when the
West Side Line (NYCRR) ran along the Avenue, a "Tenth Avenue Cowboy" was paid to ride a horse and warn people of an approaching train.
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