47th Street (manhattan)

Information about 47th Street (manhattan)

47th Street is an east-west running street between First Avenue and the West Side Highway in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Traffic runs one way along the street, from east to west, starting at the United Nations.

Notable locations

The Factory was Andy Warhol's original New York City studio from 1963 to 1968, although his later studios were known as The Factory as well. The Factory was located on the fifth floor at 231 East 47th Street, between Second Avenue and Third Avenue.

Vanderbilt Avenue is a short street that runs from 42nd Street to 47th Street, between Park Avenue and Madison Avenue. The street was built as the result of construction of Grand Central Terminal, and is named for the family of the terminal's original owners. Grand Central Terminal can be accessed via 47th Street through the "Northwest Passage", a 1,000 foot-long corridor that runs parallel to the tracks, connecting to the Main Concourse by way of an entrance at the northeast corner of East 47th Street and Madison Avenue.

The portion of 47th Street between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue is known as the Diamond District. The area is one of the five primary centers of the global diamond industry (along with London, Antwerp, Belgium, and Johannesburg, South Africa), as well as the premiere center for jewelry shopping in the city. An estimated 90% of diamonds in the United States enter through New York. There are 2,600 independent businesses located in the district, nearly all of them dealing in diamonds or jewelry, most located in booths at one of the 25 "exchanges" in the district.

The TKTS booth, which offers Broadway theatre tickets at 25-50% off of face value, is located on 47th Street at Duffy Square, between Seventh Avenue and Broadway. Due to construction of a more permanent TKTS facility, between spring 2006 and fall 2006, the Duffy Square TKTS booth has been temporarily relocated to the nearby Marriott Marquis hotel.

Broadway theatre is well represented on West 47th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue, including the Brooks Atkinson Theatre (at 256 West 47th Street), the Ethel Barrymore Theatre at (243 West 47th Street) and the Biltmore Theater (at 261 West 47th Street).

Transportation

The 47th-50th Streets-Rockefeller Center station on the New York City Subway IND Sixth Avenue Line is located on Sixth Avenue, offering service on the B, D, F and V lines. An underground concourse connects the station with the buildings of Rockefeller Center.

The 49th Street station on the BMT Broadway Line offers service on the N, R and W trains, and is accessible via a part-time booth at Seventh Avenue and 47th Street at the south end of the station.

Popular culture

West 47th Street, co-produced by Bill Lichtenstein with his wife June Peoples, was the title of a PBS documentary that debuted on P.O.V. on August 19, 2003. The documentary focused on the mentally ill who inhabit New York City's streets. Filmed over three years at Fountain House, a renowned 50-year-old rehabilitation center in New York located on West 47th Street.^[1]
Featured in the closing scene of the Mike Nichols film Closer, starring Natalie Portman and Jude Law.

References

1. ^ West 47th Street - About the Film, accessed December 12, 2006

External links

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First Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare on the East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan, running from Houston Street northbound for over 125 blocks before terminating at the Willis Avenue Bridge into The Bronx at the Harlem River near East 127th Street.
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West Side Highway (officially the Joe DiMaggio Highway, formerly the Miller Highway) is a mostly-surface section of New York State Route 9A (NY 9A) that runs from West 72nd Street along the Hudson River to the southern tip of Manhattan.
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Manhattan is a borough of New York City, New York, USA, with New York County. With a 2000 population of 1,537,195^[2] living in a land area of 22.96 square miles (59.
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Andy Warhol

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Birth name Andrew Warhola
July 6 1928
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Second Avenue is an avenue on the East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan extending from Houston Street at its south end to the Harlem River Drive at 128th Street at its north end. A one-way street, vehicular traffic runs only downtown.
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Third Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare on the East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan, running from Cooper Square north for over 120 blocks. Third Avenue continues into The Bronx across the Harlem River over the Third Avenue Bridge north of East 129th Street to West
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Vanderbilt Avenue is a short street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The street runs from 42nd Street to 47th Street, between Park Avenue and Madison Avenue. The street was built as the result of construction of Grand Central Terminal, and is named after the family of the
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42nd Street is a major crosstown street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, known for its theaters, especially near the intersection with Broadway at Times Square. It is also the name of the region of the theater district (and, at times, the red-light district) near that
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Park Avenue (formerly Fourth Avenue) is a wide boulevard that carries traffic north and south in Manhattan in New York City. Throughout most of its duration, it runs parallel to Madison Avenue to the west and Lexington Avenue to the east.
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Madison Avenue is a north-south avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City that carries northbound one-way traffic. It runs from Madison Square (at 23rd Street) to the Madison Avenue Bridge at 138th Street.
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Location: 71-105 East 42nd Street, New York City

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Built/Founded: 1903
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Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the center of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Lined with expensive park-view real estate and historical mansions, it is a symbol of wealthy New York.
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Sixth Avenue is a major avenue in New York City's borough of Manhattan. Although the Avenue's official name was changed to Avenue of the Americas in 1945 by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia^[1], New Yorkers seldom use this term.
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The Diamond District is an area of New York City located on West 47th Street between Fifth Avenue and the Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) in midtown Manhattan, within walking distance of many New York attractions.
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Canary Wharf is the centre of London's modern office towers
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Antwerp (Dutch: Antwerpen (help info ) , French: Anvers) is a city and municipality in Belgium and the capital of the Antwerp province in Flanders, one of Belgium's three
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L'union fait la force" (French)
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The TKTS ticket booths in New York and London sell Broadway and West End theatre tickets, respectively, at discounts of 25–50% off the face value.

New York

New York's TKTS (pronounced "Tee-Kay Tee-Ess", not "tickets") and also commonly referred to as "Duffy Square"
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Broadway theatre^[1] is the most well known form of professional theatre to the American general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows.
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Duffy Square is the northern triangle of Times Square in New York City. It is located between 45th and 47th Streets, Broadway and Seventh Avenue. It is a popular tourist destination and is well known for housing TKTS, a destination point for those in search of reduced-price theater
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Seventh Avenue/Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard is a thoroughfare on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It carries traffic downtown (southbound) south of Central Park but both ways north of it.
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Broadway, as the name implies, is a wide avenue in New York City. While New York has several other Broadways, in the context of the city it frequently refers to the Manhattan avenue which also runs into the Bronx and Westchester County.
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Eighth Avenue / Frederick Douglass Boulevard is a north-south avenue on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City, carrying northbound traffic. Eighth Avenue begins in the West Village neighborhood at Abingdon Square (where Hudson Street becoms 8th Avenue at a confusing
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Brooks Atkinson Theatre is a Broadway theater located at 256 West 47th Street in Manhattan.

Designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp, it was constructed as the Mansfield Theatre by the Chanin brothers in 1926.
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Ethel Barrymore Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 243 West 47th Street in midtown-Manhattan.

Designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp and constructed by the Shuberts, it opened on December 20 1928 with The Kingdom of God
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