Eighth Avenue (Manhattan)
Facing north from 32nd Street
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| Other name(s) | Central Park West (59th-110th Sts) Douglass Boulevard (north of 110th St) |
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| Owner | City of New York |
| Maintained by | NYCDOT |
| Length | 7.8 mi (12.6 km) |
| Location | Manhattan, New York City |
| South end | Hudson / Bleecker Streets in West Village |
| Major junctions |
Columbus Circle in Midtown Frederick Douglass Circle in Harlem |
| North end |
 Harlem River Drive in Washington Heights
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| East |
Seventh Avenue (below 59th St) Central Park-West Drive (59th-110th Sts) Powell Boulevard (above 110th St) |
| West |
Ninth Avenue (below 59th St) Columbus Avenue (59th-100th Sts) Manhattan Avenue (100th-124th Sts) St. Nicholas Avenue (above 124th St) |
| Construction | |
| Commissioned | March 1811 |
Eighth Avenue is a north-south avenue on the west side of Manhattan in New York City, carrying northbound traffic below 59th Street. While the avenue has different names at different points in Manhattan, it is actually one continuous stretch of road.
Eighth Avenue begins in the West Village neighborhood at Abingdon Square (where Hudson Street becomes 8th Avenue at an intersection with Bleecker Street) and runs north for 44 blocks through Chelsea, the Garment District, Hell's Kitchen's east end, Midtown and the Broadway theatre district in the eponymous neighborhood, before it finally enters Columbus Circle at 59th Street and becomes Central Park West. North of Frederick Douglass Circle, it resumes its Eighth Avenue designation, but is also known as Frederick Douglass Boulevard. The avenue ends north of 155th Street, and merges into the Harlem River Drive.
The New York City Subway IND Eighth Avenue Line (A C E trains in Lower Manhattan and the A C B D trains in Upper Manhattan) runs under Eighth Avenue.
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