Columbus Avenue (Manhattan)

Ninth Avenue

Ninth Avenue in Hell's Kitchen
Other name(s)	Columbus Avenue (59th–110th Streets) Morningside Drive (north of 110th Street)
Owner	City of New York
Maintained by	NYCDOT
Length	5.7 mi (9.2 km)
Location	Manhattan, New York City
South end	Greenwich Street
North end	Broadway above West 220th Street in Inwood, Manhattan
East	Eighth Avenue (below 59th Street) Central Park West (59th–110th Streets)
West	Tenth Avenue (below 59th Street) Amsterdam Avenue (above 59th Street)
Construction
Commissioned	March 1811

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Ninth Avenue, known as Columbus Avenue between West 59th and 110th Streets, is a southbound thoroughfare on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Traffic runs downtown (southbound) along the full stretch from Chelsea to the Upper West Side, except for the initial 3 blocks (from Gansevoort Street to 14th Street) where traffic runs northbound carrying traffic from Greenwich Street.

Ninth Avenue originates just south of West 14th Street at Gansevoort Street in the West Village, and extends uptown for 48 blocks until its intersection with West 59th Street, where it becomes Columbus Avenue – named after Christopher Columbus. It continues without interruption through the Upper West Side to West 110th Street, where its name changes again, to Morningside Drive, and runs north through Morningside Heights to West 122nd Street.

A one-block stretch of Ninth Avenue between 15th and 16th Streets is also signed as "Oreo Way". The first Oreo cookies were manufactured in 1912 at the former Nabisco headquarters on that block.