3rd Avenue (Manhattan)
Third Avenue looking north from 9th Street in 2007
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| Owner | City of New York |
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| Maintained by | NYCDOT |
| Length | 10.7 mi (17.2 km) |
| Location | Manhattan and The Bronx, New York City |
| South end | Astor Place / St. Mark's Place in Cooper Square |
| Major junctions |
 Harlem River Drive in East HarlemThird Avenue Bridge in the Harlem River  I-87 in Mott Haven
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| North end |
 US 1 (Fordham Road) in Fordham
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| East | Second Avenue |
| West |
Fourth Avenue (between 8th and 14th Streets) Irving Place (between 14th and 20th Streets Lexington Avenue (north of 21st Street) |
| Construction | |
| Commissioned | March 1811 |
Coordinates: 40°49′54.79″N 73°54′19.57″W / 40.8318861°N 73.9054361°W
Third Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare on the East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.
Its southern end is at Astor Place and St. Mark's Place. It transitions into Cooper Square, and further south, the Bowery, Chatham Square, and Park Row. The Manhattan side ends at East 128th Street. Third Avenue is two-way from Cooper Square to 24th Street, but since July 17, 1960 has carried only northbound (uptown) traffic while in Manhattan; in the Bronx, it is again two-way. However, the Third Avenue Bridge carries vehicular traffic in the opposite direction, allowing only southbound vehicular traffic, rendering the avenue essentially non-continuous to motor vehicles between the boroughs.
The street leaves Manhattan and continues into the Bronx across the Harlem River over the Third Avenue Bridge north of East 129th Street to East Fordham Road at Fordham Center, where it intersects with U.S. 1. It is one of the four streets that form The Hub, a site of both maximum traffic and architectural density, in the South Bronx.
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