Everything about Lexington Avenue Manhattan totally explained
Lexington Avenue, often abbreviated by New Yorkers as "Lex," is an avenue on the East Side of the
borough of
Manhattan in
New York City that carries southbound one-way traffic from East 131st Street to
Gramercy Park at East 21st Street. Along its 5.5 mile (8.9 km), 110-block route, Lexington Avenue runs through
Harlem,
Carnegie Hill, the
Upper East Side,
Midtown, and
Murray Hill to a point of origin that's centered on Gramercy Park. South of Gramercy Park, the axis continues as
Irving Place to East
14th Street.
History
Lexington Avenue wasn't one of the streets included in the
Commissioners' Plan of 1811 street grid, and thus doesn't also have a numerical designation, and the addresses for cross streets don't start at an even Hundred number. The portion of Lexington Avenue below
42nd Street dates from 1832, when
Samuel Ruggles, a lawyer and real estate developer, established
Gramercy Park, and established the street to provide north-south access.
The portion above East 42nd Street was reconstructed at the same time as the
IRT Lexington Avenue Line of the
New York City Subway. The widened street and the subway line both opened on
July 17,
1918.
Parallel to Lexington Avenue lies
Park Avenue to its west and
Third Avenue to its east. The avenue is largely commercial at ground level, with offices above. There are clusters of hotels on Lexington Avenue in the "30s" and "40s" (from Lexington's intersection with 30th Street through to its intersection with 49th Street, roughly) and apartment buildings farther north.
Lexington Avenue is named for the 1775
Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first battle of the
American Revolutionary War.
Lexington Avenue was almost used in the 1955 movie
The Seven Year Itch in which
Marilyn Monroe shot what would become her most famous scene. Standing on a subway grating outside the Trans-Lux Theater, her skirt billows up from the wind underneath. However, the footage shot on September 15th, 1954, on the corner of Lexington Avenue and
Fifty Second Street, was deemed unsuitable because of the noise made by the thousands of onlookers. The scene was re-shot in the studio.
The July 18,
2007 New York City steam explosion sent a geyser of hot steam up from beneath the avenue at 41st Street resulting in one death and more than 40 injuries.
Public transportation
Above ground
General cab service is available for hailing. The following buses use Lexington Avenue (northbound buses run along 3rd Avenue):
- M98: To East 34th Street
- M101: To East 6th Street
- M102: To East 6th Street
- M103: To City Hall
Underground
The
IRT Lexington Avenue Line of the
New York City Subway runs under Lexington Avenue north of
42nd Street (at
Grand Central Terminal); south of Grand Central this subway line runs under
Park Avenue until 14th Street.
Further Information
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