Sixth Avenue (Manhattan)

Sixth Avenue

The "skyscraper alley" of International Style buildings along Sixth Avenue looking north from 40th Street to Central Park
Other name(s)	Avenue of the Americas
Owner	City of New York
Maintained by	NYCDOT
Length	3.7 mi (6.0 km)
Location	Manhattan, New York City
South end	Church / Franklin Streets in Tribeca
Major junctions	Herald Square in Midtown
North end	Central Park South / Center Drive in Midtown
East	Fifth Avenue (north of Waverly Pl)
West	Varick Street (south of Houston St) Seventh Avenue (north of Houston St)
Construction
Commissioned	March 1811

Route map: Bing / Google

Sixth Avenue – officially Avenue of the Americas, although this name is seldom used by New Yorkers – is a major thoroughfare in New York City's borough of Manhattan, on which traffic runs northbound, or "uptown". It is commercial for much of its length.

Sixth Avenue begins four blocks below Canal Street, at Franklin Street in TriBeCa, where the northbound Church Street divides into Sixth Avenue to the left and the local continuation of Church Street to the right, which then ends at Canal Street. From this beginning, Sixth Avenue traverses SoHo and Greenwich Village, roughly divides Chelsea from the Flatiron District and NoMad, passes through the Garment District and skirts the edge of the Theater District while passing through Midtown Manhattan.

Sixth Avenue's northern end is at Central Park South, adjacent to the Artists Gate traffic entrance to Central Park at Center Drive. Historically, Sixth Avenue continued north of Central Park, but that segment was renamed Lenox Avenue in 1887 and co-named Malcolm X Boulevard in 1987.