This article covers numbered east-west streets in Manhattan, New York City. Major streets have their own linked articles; minor streets are discussed here. The streets do not run exactly east-west, because their grid is aligned with the Hudson River rather than with the cardinal directions. Rather their "west" is approximately 29 degrees north of west.

The numbered streets carry crosstown traffic. In general, even-numbered streets are one-way eastbound and odd-numbered streets are one-way west. Several exceptions reverse this. Most wider streets carry two-way traffic, as do a few of the narrow ones.

Streets change from west to east (for instance, East 10th Street to West 10th Street) at Broadway below 8th Street, and at Fifth Avenue from 8th Street and above.

Although the numbered streets begin just north of East Houston Street in the East Village, they generally do not extend west into Greenwich Village, which already had streets when the grid plan was laid out by the Commissioners' Plan of 1811. Streets that do continue farther west change directions before reaching the Hudson River. The grid covers the length of the island from 14th Street up. (13th Street is almost the southernmost numbered street to cover the entire width of Manhattan without changing directions, but diverts briefly northward as it meets 8th Avenue.)

The highest street number in Manhattan is 228th Street, but the numbering continues in the Bronx up to 263rd Street.^[1]

Details[link]

Peretz Square, Houston Street on left; First Street on right

1st Street - 7th Street[link]

East 1st Street begins just north of East Houston Street at Avenue A and continues to Bowery. Peretz Square, a small triangular sliver park where Houston Street, First Street and First Avenue meet marks the spot where the grid takes hold.^[2]

The east end of these streets is Avenue D, except for the aforementioned East 1st Street and East 6th Street, which connects to FDR Drive.

The west end of these streets is Bowery/Third Avenue, except for 3rd Street, formerly Amity Place, (to Sixth Avenue) and 4th Street (to West Street), which extend west and north, respectively, into Greenwich Village. Great Jones Street connects East 3rd to West 3rd.

East 5th Street is cut into three parts. 1st part is from Avenue D and ends on a dead end after Avenue C. Then it goes from Avenue B to Avenue A, and the 3rd part is from 1st Avenue to Cooper Square.

Lengths of streets[link]

Also see West 4th Street (Manhattan)

8th Street and 9th Street[link]

8th and 9th Streets run parallel to each other, beginning at Avenue D, interrupted by Tompkins Square Park at Avenue B, resuming at Avenue A and continuing to Sixth Avenue. West 8th Street is an important local shopping street. 8th Street between Avenue A and 3rd Avenue is called St Mark's Place, but it is counted in the length below.

M8 bus route operates eastbound on 8th Street and westbound on 9th Street between Avenue A and Sixth Avenue.

Lengths of streets[link]

Also see 8th Street and St. Mark's Place (Manhattan)

10th Street to 13th Street[link]

10th Street 40°44′03″N 74°00′11″W / 40.7342580°N 74.0029670°W / 40.7342580; -74.0029670 begins at the FDR Drive and Avenue C. West of Sixth Avenue, it turns southward about 40 degrees to join the Greenwich Village street grid and continue to West Street on the Hudson River. Because West 4th Street turns northward at Sixth Avenue, it intersects 10th, 11th and 12th and 13th Streets in the West Village. The M8 bus operates on 10th Street in both directions between Avenue D and Avenue A, and eastbound between West Street and Sixth Avenue. 10th Street has an eastbound bike lane from Sixth Avenue to the East River. In 2009, the two-way section of 10th Street between Avenue A and the East River had bicycle markings and sharrows installed, but it still has no bike lane. West 10th Street was previously named Amos Street for Richard Amos.^[3] The end of West 10th Street toward the Hudson River was once the home of Newgate Prison, New York City's first prison and the United States' second.

13th Street is in three parts. The first is a dead end from Avenue C. The second starts at a dead end, just before Avenue B, and runs to Greenwich Avenue, and the third part is from 8th Avenue to 10th Avenue.

Lengths of streets[link]

14th Street[link]

14th Street is a main numbered street in Manhattan. It begins at Avenue C and ends at West Street. Its length is 3.4 km (2.1 mi). It has six underground stations:

• First Avenue (L train)
• Third Avenue (L train)
• 14th Street – Union Square (4 5 6 <6> L N Q R trains)
• 14th Street (Sixth Avenue) (L F M trains)
• 14th Street (Seventh Avenue) (1 2 3 trains)
• 14th Street – Eighth Avenue (A C E L trains)

From Avenue A or Avenue C to West Street there is service M14AD bus.

Also see 14th Street

15th and 16th Streets[link]

15th Street starts at FDR Drive, and 16th Street starts at a dead end half way between FDR Drive and Avenue C. They are both stopped at Avenue C and continue from 1st Avenue to West Street, stopped again at Union Square, and 16th Street also pauses at Stuyvesant Square.

Lengths of streets[link]

17th to 19th Streets[link]

Bike parking at 17th Street

33 East 17th Street (NRHP)

17th, 18th and 19th Streets start at 1st Avenue and finish at 11th Avenue.

On 17th Street 40°44′08″N 73°59′12″W / 40.735532°N -73.986575°E / 40.735532; -73.986575, traffic runs one way along the street, from east to west excepting the stretch between Broadway and Park Avenue South, where traffic runs in both directions.^[4] It forms the northern borders of both Union Square (between Broadway and Park Avenue South) and Stuyvesant Square. Composer Antonín Dvořák's New York home was located at 327 East 17th Street, near Perlman Place. The house was razed by Beth Israel Medical Center after it received approval of a 1991 application to demolish the house and replace it with an AIDS hospice.^[5] Time Magazine was started at 141 East 17th Street.^[6]

18th Street has a local subway station at the crossing with 7th Avenue, served by the 1 2 trains on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line. There used to be an 18th Street station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line at the crossing with Park Avenue South.

On the part of 19th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues, the travel direction is different.^{[clarification needed]}

Lengths of streets[link]

20th to 22nd Streets[link]

20th Street starts at FDR Drive, and 21st and 22nd Streets start at 1st Avenue. They all end at 11th Avenue. Travel on the last block of the 20th, 21st and 22nd Streets (10th - 11th Avenues) is in the other direction than normal.

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23rd Street[link]

23rd Street is another main-er numbered street in Manhattan. It begins at FDR Drive and ends at 11th Avenue. Its length is 3.1 km/1.9m. It has two-way travel. On 23rd Street there are five local underground stations:

• 23rd Street at the crossing with Park Avenue South (4 6 <6> trains) on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line
• 23rd Street at the crossing with Fifth Avenue (N R trains) on the BMT Broadway Line
• 23rd Street at the crossing with Sixth Avenue (F M trains) on the IND Sixth Avenue Line
• 23rd Street at the crossing with Seventh Avenue (1 2 trains) on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line
• 23rd Street at the crossing with Eighth Avenue (A C E trains) on the IND Eighth Avenue Line

Additionally, there is the M23 bus, running through the length of 23rd Street.

Also see 23rd Street

24th to 27th Streets[link]

24th and 25th Street are in two parts. 24th Street starts at 1st Avenue, 25th Street at FDR Drive and they both end at Madison Avenue, because of Madison Square Park, then they continue from 5th Avenue to 11th Avenue (25th) or 12th Avenue (24th)

26th Street is all in one part

27th Street is also in 2 parts, one from 2nd to 8th Avenues and the other from 9th to 12th Avenues

26th Street after reaching FDR Drive bends and runs parallel to FDR Drive up to 30th Street.

There are no subway stations on these streets.

On 24th Street between 3rd and Lexington Avenues there is a bus stop for routes M101 (Night only), M102 and M103 towards East Village or City Hall, and between 11th and 12th Avenue there is an M23 bus stop towards FDR Drive

Lengths of streets[link]

28th Street[link]

Three local subway stations:

• 28th Street (4 6 <6> trains) on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line at Park Avenue South.
• 28th Street (N R trains) on the BMT Broadway Line at Broadway.
• 28th Street (1 2 trains) on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line at Seventh Avenue.

Also:

• The former 28th Street station on PATH at Sixth Avenue.

31st and 32nd Streets[link]

31st Street begins on the West Side at the West Side Yard while 32nd Street, which includes a segment known as "Korea Way" between Fifth Avenue and Broadway in Manhattan's Koreatown, begins at the entrance to Penn Station and Madison Square Garden. On the East Side, both streets end at Second Avenue at Kips Bay Towers and NYU Medical Center which occupy the area between 30th and 33rd Streets.

33rd Street[link]

For subway and PATH stations, see 34th Street

34th Street[link]

See 34th Street

42nd Street[link]

See 42nd Street

47th Street[link]

See 47th Street

50th Street[link]

See 50th Street

51st Street[link]

See 51st Street

52nd Street[link]

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53rd Street[link]

See 53rd Street

55th Street[link]

See 55th Street

57th Street[link]

See 57th Street

58th Street[link]

Shops along Designer Way

A section of East 58th Street 40°45′40.3″N 73°57′56.9″W / 40.761194°N 73.965806°W / 40.761194; -73.965806 between Lexington and Second Avenues is known as Designers' Way and features a number of high end interior design and decoration establishments, including

• Architects and Designers (A & D) Building
• Urban Archeology
• Foundry Lighting
• Galerie Van den Akker
• The Brass Center
• Holly Hunt
• Poggenpohl
• B & B Italia

59th Street[link]

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66th Street[link]

See 66th Street

72nd Street[link]

See 72nd Street

79th Street[link]

See 79th Street

85th Street[link]

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86th Street[link]

See 86th Street

96th Street[link]

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110th Street[link]

See 110th Street

112th Street[link]

40°47′53″N 73°56′54″W / 40.798188°N 73.948471°W / 40.798188; -73.948471

112th Street East of Broadway

112th Street starts in Morningside Heights and runs from Riverside Drive to Amsterdam Avenue, where it meets the steps of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. The street resumes at the eastern edge of Morningside Park and extends through Harlem before ending at First Avenue adjacent Thomas Jefferson Park in East Harlem. Notable locations include:

• The exterior of Tom's Restaurant, located at the corner of 112th Street and Broadway in Morningside Heights, was routinely used for transitions in the popular 1990s sitcom Seinfeld. The building, which is owned by Columbia University, is also called Armstrong Hall. Its upper floors house NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the Center for Climate Systems Research, and offices for the Columbia Business School executive education program. Philosopher John Dewey also lived there.
• The axis of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine is aligned with 112th Street. The street is interrupted by the cathedral's west front at Amsterdam Avenue, and the iconic east end of the cathedral looms over the street's path where it continues through central Harlem at a lower elevation, east of Morningside Park.
• A monument to Samuel J. Tilden, the 25th New York governor and Democratic presidential candidate in 1876, stands at the foot of 112th Street along Riverside Drive.

116th Street[link]

See 116th Street

120th Street[link]

40°48′27″N 73°57′18″W / 40.8076°N 73.9549°W / 40.8076; -73.9549 120th Street traverses the neighborhoods of Morningside Heights, Harlem, and Spanish Harlem. It begins on Riverside Drive at the Interchurch Center. It then runs east between the campuses of Barnard College and the Union Theological Seminary, then crosses Broadway and runs between the campuses of Columbia University and Teacher's College. The street is interrupted by Morningside Park. It then continues east, eventually running along the southern edge of Marcus Garvey Park. It then continues through Spanish Harlem nearly to the East River, where it turns North into Paladino Avenue.

122nd Street[link]

40°48′32″N 73°57′14″W / 40.8088°N 73.9540°W / 40.8088; -73.9540 122nd Street is divided into three noncontiguous segments, E 122nd Street, W 122nd Street, and W 122nd Street Seminary Row, by Marcus Garvey Memorial Park and Morningside Park.

E 122nd Street runs four blocks (2250 ft or 687 m) west from the intersection of Second Avenue and terminates at the intersection of Madison Avenue at Marcus Garvey Memorial Park. This segment runs in East Harlem and crosses portions of Third Avenue, Lexington, and Park (Fourth Avenue).

W 122nd Street runs six blocks (3280 ft or 1000 m) west from the intersection of Mount Morris Park West at Marcus Garvey Memorial Park and terminates at the intersection of Morningside Avenue at Morningside Park. This segment runs in the Mount Morris Historical District and crosses portions of Lenox Avenue (Sixth Avenue), Seventh Avenue, Frederick Douglass Boulevard (Eighth Avenue), and Manhattan Avenue.

W 122nd Street Seminary Row runs three blocks (1500 ft or 460 m) west from the intersection of Amsterdam Avenue (Tenth Avenue) and terminates at the intersection of Riverside Drive. East of Amsterdam, Seminary Row bends south along Morningside Park and is resigned as Morningside Drive (Ninth Avenue). Seminary row runs in Morningside Heights, the district surrounding Columbia University, and crosses portions of Broadway and Claremont Avenue.

Seminary Row is named for the Union Theological Seminary and the Jewish Theological Seminary which it touches. Seminary Row also runs by the Manhattan School of Music, Riverside Church, Sakura Park, Grant's Tomb, and Morningside Park.

122nd Street is mentioned in the movie Taxi Driver by main character Travis Bickle as the location where a fellow cab driver is assaulted with a knife. The street and the surrounding neighborhood of Harlem is then referred to as "Mau Mau Land" by another character named Wizard, slang indicating it's a majority black area.

125th Street[link]

See 125th Street

130th Street[link]

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132nd Street[link]

40°48′52″N 73°56′53″W / 40.814583°N -73.947944°E / 40.814583; -73.947944 132nd Street runs east-west above Central Park and is located in Harlem just south of Hamilton Heights. The main portion of 132nd Street runs eastbound from Frederick Douglass Boulevard to northern end of Park Avenue where there is a southbound exit from/entrance to the Harlem River Drive. After an interruption from St. Nicholas Park and City College, there is another small stretch of West 132nd Street between Broadway and 12th Avenue

The 132nd Street Community Garden is located on 132nd Street between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and Malcolm X Boulevard. In 1997, the lot received a garden makeover; the Borough President's office funded the installation of a $100,000 water distribution system that keeps the wide variety of trees green. The garden also holds a goldfish pond and several benches. The spirit of the neighborhood lives in gardens like this one, planted and tended by local residents.

The Manhattanville Bus Depot (formerly known as the 132nd Street Bus Depot) is located on West 132nd Street between Broadway and Riverside Drive in the Manhattanville neighborhood.

135th Street[link]

Two subway stations:

• 135th Street on the IND Eighth Avenue Line (A B C trains) at Saint Nicholas Avenue.
• 135th Street on the IRT Lenox Avenue Line (2 3 trains) at Lenox Avenue.

137th Street[link]

One local subway station:

• 137th Street on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line (1 train) at Broadway.

139th Street[link]

See 139th Street

145th Street[link]

See 145th Street

148th Street[link]

One subway terminal:

• 148th Street on the IRT Lenox Avenue Line (3 train) at Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard.

155th Street[link]

Western end

Eastern viaduct

Underneath; unconnected

155th Street is a major crosstown street in the Harlem neighborhood, in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is the northernmost of the 155 crosstown streets mapped out in the Commissioner's Plan of 1811 that established the numbered street grid in Manhattan.^[7]

155th Street starts on the West Side at Riverside Drive, crossing Broadway, Amsterdam Avenue and Saint Nicholas Avenue. At Saint Nicholas Place, the terrain drops off steeply, and 155th Street is carried on a 1,600-foot (490 m) long viaduct, a City Landmark constructed in 1893, that slopes down towards the Harlem River, continuing onto the Macombs Dam Bridge, crossing over (but not intersecting with) the Harlem River Drive.^[8] A separate, unconnected section of 155th Street runs under the viaduct, connecting Bradhurst Avenue and the Harlem River Drive.

The New York City Subway serves 155th Street on the IND Eighth Avenue and Concourse Lines. Points of interest include:

• Highbridge Park - situated on the banks of the Harlem River near the northernmost tip of Manhattan, between 155th Street and Dyckman Street.^[9]
• Polo Grounds - The final incarnation of the famed stadium was located at was then 8th Avenue from 1911 to 1963. Over its life, it was home of the New York Giants (1911–1957), New York Yankees (1913–1922) and New York Mets (1962–1963) baseball franchises, and the New York Giants (1925–1955) and New York Jets (1960–1963) football teams.
• Rucker Park - located at Frederick Douglass Boulevard, Rucker Park is one of the premier havens of streetball, and its summer league has been the launching point for many NBA players.^[10]
• Hispanic Society of America - Museum of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American art and artifacts, as well as a rare books and manuscripts and research library, located at Audubon Terrace.
• Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, on the south side of 155th between Broadway and Riverside Drive.

157th Street[link]

One local subway station:

• 157th Street on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line (1 train) at Broadway.

163rd Street[link]

One local subway station:

• 163rd Street on the IND Eighth Avenue Line (A C trains) at Saint Nicholas Avenue and Amsterdam Avenue.

168th Street[link]

A station complex with platforms for two subway lines:

• 168th Street on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line (1 train) at Broadway.
• 168th Street on the IND Eighth Avenue Line (A C trains) at Saint Nicholas Avenue.

175th Street[link]

One local subway station:

• 175th Street on the IND Eighth Avenue Line (A train) at Fort Washington Avenue.

181st Street[link]

See 181st Street

187th Street[link]

40°51′13″N 73°55′56″W / 40.853586°N -73.932233°E / 40.853586; -73.932233

View of Hudson River from 187th Street, just west of Cabrini Boulevard.

West 187th Street leading to Hudson Heights. Stairs to Ft. Washington Avenue are visible at higher resolutions.

187th Street crosses Washington Heights and running from Laurel Hill Terrace in the east to Chittenden Avenue in the west near the George Washington Bridge and Hudson River. The street is interrupted by a long set of stairs east of Fort Washington Avenue leading to the Broadway valley. West of there, it is mostly lined with store fronts and serves as a main shopping district for the Hudson Heights neighborhood. ^[11]

187th Street intersects with, from East to West, Laurel Hill Terrace, Amsterdam Avenue, Audubon Avenue, Saint Nicholas Avenue, Wadsworth Avenue, Broadway, Bennett Avenue, Overlook Terrace, Fort Washington Avenue, Pinehurst Avenue, Cabrini Boulevard and Chittenden Avenue.

Amongst the many institutions on 187th Street are Mount Sinai Jewish Center and the uptown campus of Yeshiva University. The local public elementary school P.S. 187 is located on Cabrini Boulevard, just north of the eponymous 187th Street ^[12]

190th Street[link]

One local subway station:

• 190th Street on the IND Eighth Avenue Line (A train) at Fort Washington Avenue.

191st Street[link]

One local subway station:

• 191st Street on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line (1 train) at Saint Nicholas Avenue.

207th Street[link]

Two local subway stations:

• 207th Street terminal on the IND Eighth Avenue Line (A train) at Broadway.
• 207th Street on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line (1 train) at Tenth Avenue.

215th Street[link]

One local subway station:

• 215th Street on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line (1 train) at Tenth Avenue.

See also[link]

New York City portal

• Manhattan address algorithm

References[link]