Seventh Avenue (manhattan)

Information about Seventh Avenue (manhattan)

7th Avenue, looking south from 50th Street

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.

Seventh Avenue originates in the West Village at Clarkson Street, where Varick Street becomes Seventh Avenue. It is interrupted by Central Park from 59th to 110th Street. Artisans' Gate is the 59th Street exit from Central Park to Seventh Avenue. North of the Park, the road runs in both directions through Harlem, where the road is called Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard. The road continues across the Harlem River via the Macombs Dam Bridge, where it becomes Jerome Avenue upon reaching the Bronx.

Running through the Garment District (which stretches from 12th Avenue to 5th Avenue and 34th Street to 39th Street), it is referred to as Fashion Avenue due to its role as a center of the garment and fashion industry and the famed fashion designers who established New York as a world fashion capital. The first, temporary signs designating the section of Seventh Avenue as "Fashion Avenue" were dual-posted in 1972, with permanent signs added over the ensuing years.^[1]

Seventh Ave is also famous for crossing Broadway and 42nd Street at an intersection known as Times Square. Carnegie Hall, Madison Square Garden and Penn Station, The Fashion Institute of Technology, and James J. Walker Park are some of the notable destinations that reside along 7th Avenue.

The AXA Center (originally The Equitable Tower), located at 787 Seventh Avenue and 51st Street, is a 229 meter (752 foot) tall skyscraper built in 1986 to house the AXA Group. Current cornerstone tenants include BNP Paribas, Sidley Austin LLP and Citigroup. Across the street to the northwest is 810 Seventh Avenue and two Sheraton Hotels to the north and west.

The street is mentioned in the Simon and Garfunkel song The Boxer, in which the protagonist mentions receiving "come-ons from the whores on Seventh Avenue." It is also mentioned in Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, when detective Sam Spade tells the gunman Wilmer that his telling him to "shove off" "would go over big back on Seventh Avenue. But you're not in Romeville now. You're in my burg."

References

1. ^ "Everybody -- Well, Almost -- Attended A Mammoth Party on 'Fashion Ave.'", The New York Times, June 8, 1972. p. 58.

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1: Manhattan 2: Brooklyn 3: Queens 4: The Bronx 5: Staten Island]]
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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
Location in the state of New York
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Central Park
A Central Park landscape
Type Municipal (New York City)
Location Manhattan
Coordinates
Size 843 acres (3.4 kmÂ²) (1.
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West Village is western portion of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Though there are no defined boundaries, the area is usually defined as bounded by the Hudson River and either Sixth Avenue or Seventh Avenue, extending from 14th Street
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59th Street is a street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It runs east-west, from York Avenue to the West Side Highway, with a discontinuity between Ninth Avenue/Columbus Avenue and Eighth Avenue/Central Park West for the Time Warner Center.
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110th Street is a street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is commonly known as the boundary between Harlem and Central Park, along which it is known as Central Park North. In the west, it is also known as Cathedral Parkway.
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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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Harlem River is a navigable tidal strait in New York City, USA that flows 8 miles (13 km) between the East River and the Hudson River , separating the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx.
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Macombs Dam Bridge is a swing bridge that spans the Harlem River in New York City, connecting the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx near Yankee Stadium. It is the third-oldest bridge in New York City and was designated an official landmark in January of 1992.
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The Bronx is New York City's northernmost borough, coterminous with Bronx County. The Bronx is located Northeast of Manhattan. It is the only one of the city's five boroughs situated primarily on the United States mainland rather than on an island.
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Garment District is a neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan, located between Fifth and Ninth Avenues from 34th to 42nd Street. It has been known since the early 20th century as the center for fashion design and manufacturing in the United States.
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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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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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34th Street is a major cross-town street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, connecting the Lincoln Tunnel and Queens-Midtown Tunnel. Like many of New York City's major crosstown streets, it has its own bus lines (M16 and M34) and four subway stops serving the A, C and E
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Fashion is a term that usually applies to a prevailing mode of expression, but quite often applies to a personal mode of expression that may or may not apply to all. Inherent in the term is the idea that the mode will change more quickly than the culture as a whole.
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Fashion design is the applied art dedicated to the design of clothing and lifestyle accessories created within the cultural and social influences of a specific time.
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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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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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Times Square is a major intersection in Manhattan, New York City at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. The Times Square area consists of the blocks between Sixth and Eighth Avenues from east to west, and West 40th and
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Location: Midtown Manhattan, New York City, NY

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Built/Founded: 1890
Architect: William Tuthill
Architectural style(s): Italian Renaissance
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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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Pennsylvania Station (commonly known as Penn Station) is the major intercity rail station and a major commuter rail hub in New York City. The station is located in the underground levels of Pennsylvania Plaza, an urban complex at 8th Avenue and 31st Street in Midtown
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Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) is a State University of New York college of art and design located in New York City, New York, United States.

The Institute

Founded in 1944^[1]
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AXA Center (originally The Equitable Tower) is a 229 meter (752 foot) tall skyscraper in New York City. It was built in 1986 to house the AXA Group. Current cornerstone tenants include BNP Paribas, Sidley Austin LLP, and Citigroup.
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AXA SA

Public (Euronext: CS , NYSE: AXA )
Founded 1985
Headquarters Paris, France

Key people Henri de Castries, Chairman of the Management Board
Industry Financial services
Products Life insurance
Health insurance
Investment management
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BNP Paribas

Public (Euronext: BNP , TYO: 8665 )
Founded May 23 2000
Headquarters Paris, France

Key people Baudouin Prot, CEO
Michel PÃ©bereau, Chairman
Industry Finance and Insurance
Products Financial Services
Net income 7.
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Sidley Austin LLP
# of Offices 16 Worldwide
# of Attorneys 1700+
# of Employees about 3,600
Major Practice Areas General practice
Revenue $1.25 billion USD (2007)^[1]
Date Founded 1866
Founder Norman Williams and
John Leverett Thompson
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Citigroup Inc.

Public (NYSE: C )
Founded New York City, USA (1812)
Headquarters New York City, USA

Key people Charles Prince, Chairman & CEO
Robert Rubin, Director and Chairman of Executive Committee
Gary Crittenden, CFO^[1]
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810 Seventh Avenue is a 525 foot (160 m) skyscraper located just north of Times Square on Seventh Avenue between 52nd and 53rd streets within Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States. It is owned by SL Green after its acquisition of Reckson Associates Realty Corp.
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