7th Avenue (Manhattan)

Seventh Avenue

Seventh Avenue near 47th Street in Times Square in 2009
Other name(s)	Seventh Avenue South (south of 11th St) Fashion Avenue (26th–42nd Sts) Powell Boulevard (north of 110th St)
Owner	City of New York
Maintained by	NYCDOT
Length	5.3 mi (8.5 km)
Location	Manhattan, New York City
South end	Varick / Clarkson Streets in West Village
Major junctions	Times Square in Midtown Macombs Dam Bridge in Harlem
North end	Harlem River Drive / 155th Street in Harlem
East	Sixth Avenue (below 59th St) Lenox Avenue (above 110th St)
West	Eighth Avenue (below 59th St) Douglass Boulevard (above 110th St)
Construction
Commissioned	March 1811

Route map: Bing / Google

Seventh Avenue – known as Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard north of Central Park – is a thoroughfare on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It is southbound below Central Park and a two-way street north of the park.

Seventh Avenue originates in the West Village at Clarkson Street, where Varick Street becomes Seventh Avenue South (which becomes Seventh Avenue proper after the road crosses Greenwich Avenue and West 11th Street). 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 Warriors' Gate 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. Addresses continue as if the street was continuous through Central Park, with the first block north of the park being the 1800 block. The road has two northern termini; an upper level terminates at the western end of the Macombs Dam Bridge, traveling over the Harlem River, where Jerome Avenue commences in the Bronx. A lower level continues a bit further north and curves into the lower level of West 155th Street.