Second Avenue (Manhattan)
North-south avenue in Manhattan, New York / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Second Avenue is located 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 on Second Avenue runs southbound (downtown) only, except for a one-block segment of the avenue in Harlem. South of Houston Street, the roadway continues as Chrystie Street south to Canal Street.
Owner | City of New York |
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Maintained by | NYCDOT |
Length | 6.4 mi (10.3 km)[1] |
Location | Manhattan, New York City |
South end | Houston / Chrystie Streets in Lower East Side |
Major junctions | NY 25 (Queensboro Bridge) in East Midtown RFK Bridge in East Harlem |
North end | Harlem River Drive / 128th Street in East Harlem |
East | First Avenue |
West | Third Avenue |
Construction | |
Commissioned | March 1811 |
A bicycle lane runs in the leftmost lane of Second Avenue from 125th to Houston Streets. The section from 55th to 34th Streets closes a gap in the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway.
Second Avenue passes through a number of Manhattan neighborhoods including (from south to north) the Lower East Side, the East Village, Stuyvesant Square, Kips Bay, Tudor City, Turtle Bay, East Midtown, Lenox Hill, Yorkville and Spanish Harlem.[2][3]