MANHATTAN Flashcards
(41 cards)
Mews
A mews is a cobblestone street or alleyway that was originally built to house stables and coach houses for the staff of wealthy London residents in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Borscht Belt
The Borscht Belt is a nickname for the summer resorts in the Catskill Mountains, which are located in parts of Sullivan, Orange, and Ulster counties in New York. The Borscht Belt was a popular destination for Jewish people from the 1920s to the 1970s. The area was home to 538 hotels and 50,000 bungalow colonies at its peak.
Location of Bryant Park
Fifth Avenue and Sixth between 40th and 42nd Streets
Location of Rockefeller Center
between 5th and 6th and 48th Street and 51st Street
Radio City Music Hall location
6th Avenue / W. 50th
1260 Avenue of the Americas
Which avenue/divides manhattan east and west?
Broadway below 8th Street, and at Fifth Avenue above 8th Street
Where does the street grid start in Manhattan?
On the east side, above Houston Street, the first street is, naturally, 1st Street. On the west side, the grid starts at 14th Street.
The numbered streets go all the way to Upper Manhattan, with the last street being 220th Street.
What is the location of Times Square?
it is where Broadway crosses 7th ave at 42nd street.
Put another way
It is formed by the junction of Broadway, Seventh Avenue, and 42nd Street.
Avenue of the Americas is___avenue
Sixth
What is the location of
Saint Thomas Church?
5th Ave and E 53rd
What is the location of Trump Tower?
Fifth between E 56th and 57th
What is the location of the Villard Houses
Madison Avenue and 51st Street.
Across from St Patrick’s
Louis Vuitton location
5th and 57th
Macy’s location
34th and broadway
Korea Town
on 32nd Street between Madison Avenue and the intersection with Sixth Avenue and Broadway, which is known as Greeley Square.
Greeley Square
Greeley Square is a square in Manhattan, New York City located between West 32nd Street and West 33rd Street and between Broadway and Sixth Avenue. The square was named for Horace Greeley, the publisher of the New York Tribune, and a statue to Greeley was erected in the park in
Grand Central Terminal
Located at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, it is the largest train station in the world by number of platforms.[1]
Park Avenue
(4th) between Madison and Lexington
One of the busiest pedestrian crossings…
6th avenue at 50th and 49th.
Beware of ____ at Rockefeller Center
Pickpockets
Subway restaurant midtown
341 W 42nd Street across from building with “white scaffolding “. Is that 55th Ave?
What number is Avenue of the Americas?
Sixth Avenue
Why do they call it Avenue of the Americas?
“Avenue of the Americas” is the official name for Sixth Avenue in New York City because Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia renamed it in 1945 to honor the nations of the Western Hemisphere and promote Pan-American ideals, with the intention of signifying the importance of immigrants from those countries to the city; the name change was accompanied by lamppost medallions displaying the seals of various American countries, although most New Yorkers still commonly refer to it as “Sixth Avenue”.
What is St Thomas Church?
episcopal
-built 1914
-The men of the Saint Thomas Choir are professional singers and the boys are students enrolled at the Saint Thomas Choir School, the only church-affiliated residential choir school in the United States where the choristers make up the whole student body.
-after sept 11, church readhed out to British expats. Pm Tony Blair spoke.
