Harlem Streets Flashcards
(19 cards)
Saint Nicholas Avenue (Early 19 century called Harlem Lane)
*(Runs N/S)
Where does it begin/end?
How named?
BEGINS: W. 111th St. and Malcolm X Blvd.
ENDS:193 Street. It goes through the neighborhoods of Harlem, Washington Heights and Inwood.
N/A: Saint Nicholas, 4th-century saint, Greek bishop. The inspiration for today’s westernized Saint Nick, also known as Santa Claus.
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. *1974 (AKA 7th Ave)
*(Runs N/S)
Where does it begin/end?
How named?
BEGINS: North of Warriors’ Gate (W. 110th) at the north end of the Park, the avenue carries traffic in both directions through Harlem, where it is called Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard.
ENDS: at the Macombs Dam Bridge over the Harlem River, where Jerome Avenue commences in the Bronx.
N/A :Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Baptist pastor and an African American politician/ preacher.
Malcolm X Blvd./Lenox Avenue (AKA 6th Ave)
*(Runs N/S)
Where does it begin/end?
How named?
BEGINS:Farmers’ Gate C/P North (110th Street)
ENDS:147th Street.
N/A: Malcolm (Little) X
Muslim minister and a human rights activist.
And James Lenox an Scottish American bibliophile and philanthropist.
Frederick Douglass Blvd (a.k.a. 8th Ave)
*(Runs N/S)
Where does it begin/end?
How named?
BEGINS: Fredrick Douglass Cir 110th & 8th ave
ENDS:north of 155th Street, and merges into the Harlem River Drive
N/A: Frederick Douglass African-American social reformer, abolitionist orator, writer, and statesman.
5th Ave
*(Runs N/S)
Where does it begin/end?
How named?
BEGINS: Washington Square
ENDS: 143rd St. And Harlem River Drive
N/A:
CAB (back) L(ate) P.M (acronym)
Columbus Amsterdam Broadway Lexington Park Madison
The Harlem River Drive
(A 4.20-mile (6.76 km) long north–south parkway in the New York City)
Where does it begin/end?
BEGINS: Along the west bank of the Harlem River from the Triborough Bridge in East Harlem
ENDS: At 10th Avenue in Inwood, where the parkway ends and the road continues north as Dyckman Street.
is borough of Manhattan. It
Columbus Avenue (aka 9th Ave)
*(Runs S)
Where does it begin/end?
How named?
BEGINS:W.59th
ENDS W.110th Streets a southbound thoroughfare on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City.
N/A: named after the explorer Christopher Columbus.
Morningside Drive
(A roughly north-south bi-directional street in the Morningside Heights neighborhood)
*(Runs N/S)
Where does it begin/end?
How named?
BEGINS: 110th Street & Columbus Ave
ENDS: There it forms the continuation of Columbus Avenue, to 122nd Street-Seminary Row in the north, which Morningside Drive becomes after turning to the west and crossing over into Amsterdam Avenue.
N/A:
Westside Highway (A.k.a. Joe DiMaggio HWY)
(The West Side Highway is a mostly surface section of New York State Route 9A)
*Approximately 5.29 miles
Where does it begin/end?
Which Avenue is it nearest?
BEGINS:West 72nd Street along the Hudson River
ENDS: At southern tip of Manhattan
Nearest Avenue: Riverside Drive
N/A:
Amsterdam Avenue (a.k.a. 10th Ave.)
Carries uptown/northbound traffic as far as west 110th St. From there it continues as a
2-way street)
*(Runs N to West 110th St. Then N/S)
Where does it begin/end?
How named?
BEGINS:Downtown Gansevoort
ENDS: As Amsterdam Avenue when it connects with Fort George Ave At West 193rd St.
N/A: Named Amsterdam to recall the Dutch roots of Manhattan’s earliest colonize Asian in the 17th century.
11th Ave. (West End Avenue)
*(Runs N/S)
Where does it begin/end?
BEGINS: As Far south as Gansvoort Street as part of the Westside Highway. From W. 22nd St. to W. 59th St. it is known as 11th Ave. But past 59th St. it is known as West End Avenue.
ENDS: at 106th before becoming southbound Broadway.
N/A: (Death Avenue)
before the Westside Highway was Bill, the road long that’s enough it was a busy one with a lot of accidents caused by trains and automobiles colliding.
Riverside Drive
(A scenic north-south thoroughfare)
*(Runs N/S)
Where does it begin/end?
BEGINS: W72nd Street
ENDS:Near the George Washington Bridge at 181st Street
N/A:(Riverside Boulevard can be taken in 2 Riverside Dr.)
Henry Hudson Parkway
Runs N/S)
Where does it begin/end?
How named?
BEGINS: At an interchange at W. 72nd St. and Riverside Park running almost parallel to Riverside Drive north of West 158th.
ENDS: continues into the Bronx
N/A: English explorer Henry Hudson who is also the name sake of the nearby Hudson river.
Fort Washington Avenue (A major North. South St. In Wash Hts) *(Runs N/S) Where does it begin/end? How named?
BEGINS: 160th Bet Bway and Riverside Dr.
ENDS: 190th
N/A: during George Washington’s defense of New York, during the American Revolution Fort Washington was created to prevent the British from going up river and to provide a secure escape route.
Famous residents include Henry Kissinger and Ruth Westheimer (TVs Dr. Ruth)
(It goes past Bennett Park, the highest natural point in Manhattan)
Audubon Avenue
*(Runs N)
Where does it begin/end?
How named?
BEGINS:166th St. bet Astrdm & St. Nick Aves
ENDS: 194th St (turns into for George Ave)
N/A:after naturalist John James Audubon who owned a farm in the area.
Clairemont Avenue
*(Runs N)
Where does it begin/end?
How named?
BEGINS: 116th St.
ENDS:127th St. (Tiemann Place)
N/A: Named by Michael Hogan (the merchant who purchased the largest state in the region)
His homeland of Clair County Ireland.
Cabrini Boulevard
*(Runs S)
Where does it begin/end?
How named?
BEGINS: W. 177th St. (near GWB)
ENDS: W. 190th
N/A: named after St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (She was the first American canonized as a Roman Catholic saint) *originally named Northern Avenue
Dyckman Street (Considered to be across town Street because it runs from the Hudson river to the Harlem and intersects Broadway) *(Runs N-NW/S-SE) Where does it begin/end? How named?
BEGINS/END: 10th Ave. and Harlem River Dr.
ENDS/BEGINS: beneath Henry Hudson Parkway
N/A: Dutch farmer William Dyckman, whose family owned over 250 acres of farmland in the area.
