Madison Avenue

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“Madison Avenue” redirects here. For the band, see Madison Avenue (band).

Madison Avenue, looking north from 40th Street

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. In doing so, it passes through Midtown, the Upper East Side (including Carnegie Hill), Spanish Harlem, and Harlem. It is named for and arises from Madison Square, which is itself named for James Madison, the fourth President of the United States.

Madison Square Garden takes its name from the former location on the north east corner of Madison Square at 26th Street and Madison Avenue. (The New York Life Insurance Building now occupies that entire city block.) It was designed by Stanford White and had a bronze statue of the Roman goddess Diana on the tower of the sports arena. When it moved to a new building at 50th Street and Eighth Avenue in 1925 it kept its old name. (Madison Square Garden is now located at Eighth Avenue between 31st Street and 33rd Street).

Between 57th Street and 85th Street, Madison Avenue is identified as “the fashionable road”. In this area is where most of the very well known fashion designers and upper class hair salons are located.

Some of the world's most upscale boutiques are located on Madison Avenue including Gucci, Hermès, Prada, Chanel, Chloé, Emporio Armani, Tom Ford, Yves Saint Laurent, Dolce & Gabbana, J. Press, Paul Stuart, Vera Wang, Betsey Johnson, Juicy Couture, Miu Miu, Jimmy Choo, Christian Dior, Bvlgari, Roberto Cavalli, Valentino, Donna Karan, Luca Luca, Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren, Etro, Givenchy, and many more.
Barneys New York also has their anchor store on Madison Avenue and 60th Street.

Madison Avenue was not part of the original New York City street grid established in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, and was carved between Park Avenue (formerly Fourth) and Fifth Avenue in 1836, due to the effort of lawyer and real estate developer Samuel B. Ruggles, a graduate of Yale University who had previously purchased and developed New York's Gramercy Park in 1831, who was in part responsible for the development of Union Square, and who also named Lexington Avenue.

Advertising industry

The term "Madison Avenue" is often used metonymously for advertising, and Madison Avenue became identified with the advertising industry after the explosive growth in this area in the 1920s.

According to "The Emergence of Advertising in America," an online exhibit at the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History at Duke University, by the year 1861 there were twenty advertising agencies in New York City, and in 1911, the New York City Association of Advertising Agencies was founded, predating the establishment of the American Association of Advertising Agencies by several years.

Transportation

Madison Avenue is served by the M1, M2, M3, and M4 NYCT Buses, and the BM1, BM2, BM3, BM4, and BM5 express buses.

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Madison Avenue was an Australian dance music and pop duo. Madison Avenue is best known for the song "Don't Call Me Baby" which peaked at number two on the Australian singles charts in 1999 and to the top of the UK singles and Billboard dance charts in 2000.
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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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City of New York
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Nickname: The Big Apple, Gotham, The City that Never Sleeps
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Madison Square is a neighborhood on the East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan, centered on a 6.8 acre (2.75 Hectare) public park in the New York City borough of Manhattan, named for James Madison, fourth President of the United States and co-author of the United
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23rd Street is a large thoroughfare across Manhattan in New York City. It runs from river to river across Manhattan, carrying two-way traffic. As with Manhattan's other streets, West 23rd Street stretches west of Fifth Avenue (at Madison Square Park) and
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Madison Avenue Bridge crosses the Harlem River connecting Madison Avenue in Manhattan with East 138th Street in the Bronx in New York City. The bridge is operated and maintained by the New York City Department of Transportation.
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Midtown is an area of Manhattan, New York City home to world-famous commercial buildings as Rockefeller Center, Radio City Music Hall, and the Empire State Building.
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The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, USA, between Central Park and the East River.

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Carnegie Hill is a neighborhood within the Upper East Side, in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Roughly speaking, it is bounded by 86th Street on the south, Third Avenue on the east, 98th Street (i.e., Spanish Harlem) on the north, and Fifth Avenue (i.e.
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Spanish Harlem, also known as El Barrio, is a neighborhood in the East Harlem area of New York City, in the north-eastern part of the borough of Manhattan. Spanish Harlem is one of the largest predominantly Latino communities in New York City.
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Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, long known as a major black cultural and business center. After being associated for much of the twentieth century with black culture, but also crime and poverty, it is now experiencing a social and economic
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James Madison (March 16 1751 – June 28 1836), was an American politician and the fourth President of the United States (1809–1817), and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
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Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG, known colloquially simply as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City, United States. It is also the name of the entity which owns the arena and several of the professional sports franchises which
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New York Life Insurance Building, New York is the headquarters of the New York Life Insurance Company. It was designed in 1926 by Cass Gilbert, designer of the landmark Woolworth Building; the massive building rises forty stories to its pyramidal gilded roof and occupies the full
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Stanford White

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Name Stanford White
Nationality American
Birth date November 9 1853
Birth place
Date of death May 25 1906 (aged 54)
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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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57th Street is a street that runs east-west in the New York City borough of Manhattan, running from the Hudson River at the West Side Highway to the East River at the FDR Drive. It is just two blocks south of Central Park between Fifth Avenue and Central Park West.
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Upmarket commodities are products, services or real estate targeted at high-income consumers. Examples of products would include items from Mercedes-Benz, Tiffany & Co., Hammacher-Schlemmer, Chanel and The Sharper Image.
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Gucci

Subsidiary of PPR (Euronext: PP )
Founded 1921
Headquarters Florence, Italy

Key people Guccio Gucci, Founder
Robert Polet, Chairman, President & CEO
Alexis Babeau, CFO
Frida Giannini, Creative director
Industry Consumer Goods
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Hermès (French pronunciation [ɛʀ.mɛs] ^[1], typical American English [ɛɻˈmɛz]
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Prada

Privately held
Founded 1913
Headquarters Milan, Italy

Key people Mario Prada, Founder
Patrizio Bertelli, CEO
Randy Kabat, SVP & CCO
Donatello Galli, CFO
Industry Consumer Goods
Products Textile - Apparel clothing
Website www.prada.
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Chanel

Privately held
Founded 1910's
Headquarters Paris, France

Industry Fashion
Products Clothing, footwear, handbags.
Website www.chanel.com/

The House of Chanel , more commonly known as Chanel
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Chloé is a French luxury fashion design house headquartered in Paris, France. Founded in 1952 by Jacques Lenoir and French-Egyptian creator Gaby Aghion,^[1] the house produces women’s prêt-a-porter, accessories, and fragrances.
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Emporio Armani is a Giorgio Armani brand. Products encompassed by this brand include ready-to-wear clothes, sunglasses, perfume, accessories and watches. This specific branch is targeted toward younger buyers, offering less expensive and more mass produced items.
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For the television presenter, see Tom Ford (presenter).

Tom Ford (born August 27, 1962) is an American fashion designer. He gained international fame for his legendary turnaround of the Gucci fashion house and the creation of the Tom Ford label, becoming
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Yves Saint-Laurent may refer to:

Yves Saint-Laurent (designer)
Yves Saint-Laurent (brand)

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Dolce & Gabbana

Privately held
Founded 1985
Headquarters Milan, Italy

Industry Fashion
Products Clothing, footwear, handbags.
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Dolce & Gabbana (
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