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Murray Hill Tunnel

Park Avenue Tunnel
(Murray Hill Tunnel)
Park Avenue Tunnel.jpg
South end of tunnel
Overview
Location Manhattan, New York
Coordinates 40°44′56.3″N 73°58′47.8″W / 40.748972°N 73.979944°W / 40.748972; -73.979944
Route Northbound Park Avenue
Start East 33rd Street (entrance ramp)
East 34th Street (entrance portal)
End East 40th Street (exit ramp)
East 39th Street (exit portal) (all traffic must continue to East 46th Street)
Operation
Opened 1834; 183 years ago (1834)
Owner New York City
Operator New York City Department of Transportation
Traffic Cars (formerly trains and street cars)
Technical
Length 5 blocks, approximately 0.25 miles (0.40 km)
No. of lanes 1
Operating speed 35 mph (56.33 km/h)
Tunnel clearance 8 feet 11 inches (2.72 m)
Width 16 feet (4.88 m)

Coordinates: 40°44′56.3″N 73°58′47.8″W / 40.748972°N 73.979944°W / 40.748972; -73.979944

The Park Avenue Tunnel, also called the Murray Hill Tunnel, is a 1,600-foot-long (488 m) tunnel that passes under seven blocks of Park Avenue in Murray Hill, in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Traffic currently goes northbound from 33rd Street toward the Park Avenue Viaduct. The tunnel is under the jurisdiction of the New York City Department of Transportation, and carries one lane of northbound car traffic from East 33rd Street to East 40th Street; from 40th Street north, traffic must follow the Park Avenue Viaduct around Grand Central Terminal to 46th Street. The vertical clearance is 8 ft 11 in (2.72 m).

The IRT Lexington Avenue Line of the New York City Subway runs parallel to the Park Avenue Tunnel in two tunnels below it.


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