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Madison Avenue (Manhattan)

Madison Avenue
Madison Ave NYC looking nor.jpg
Madison Avenue, looking north from 40th Street
Owner City of New York
Maintained by NYCDOT
Length 6.0 mi (9.7 km)
Location Manhattan, New York City
Postal code 10010, 10016, 10017, 10022, 10065, 10021, 10075, 10028, 10128, 10029, 10035, 10037
South end 23rd Street in Flatiron
Major
junctions
Harlem River Drive / Madison Avenue Bridge in East Harlem
North end Harlem River Drive / 142nd Street in Harlem
East Park Avenue
West Fifth Avenue
Construction
Commissioned 1836

Route map: Bing / Google

Madison Avenue is a north-south avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States, that carries northbound one-way traffic. It runs from Madison Square (at 23rd Street) to meet the southbound Harlem River Drive at 142nd Street. In doing so, it passes through Midtown, the Upper East Side (including Carnegie Hill), East Harlem, and Harlem. It is named after and arises from Madison Square, which is itself named after James Madison, the fourth President of the United States.

Madison Avenue was not part of the original New York City street grid established in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, and was carved between Park Avenue (formerly Fourth) and Fifth Avenue in 1836, due to the effort of lawyer and real estate developer Samuel B. Ruggles who had previously purchased and developed New York's Gramercy Park in 1831, who was in part responsible for the development of Union Square, and who also named Lexington Avenue.


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