Tenth Avenue

Tenth Avenue

Tenth Avenue at 17th Street, as seen from the High Line
Other name(s)	Amsterdam Avenue (north of 59th Street)
Owner	City of New York
Maintained by	NYCDOT
Length	10.5 mi (16.9 km)
Location	Manhattan, New York City
South end	West Street
North end	Fort George Avenue
East	Ninth Avenue (below 59th St) Columbus Avenue (above 59th St)
West	Eleventh Avenue (below 59th St) West End Avenue (above 59th St)
Construction
Commissioned	March 1811

Route map: Bing / Google

Tenth Avenue, known as Amsterdam Avenue between 59th Street and 193rd Street, is a north-south thoroughfare on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It carries uptown (northbound) traffic as far as West 110th Street – also known as Cathedral Parkway, after which it continues as a two-way street.

Tenth Avenue begins a block below Gansevoort Street and Eleventh Avenue in the West Village / Meatpacking District. For the southernmost stretch (the four blocks below 14th Street), Tenth Avenue runs southbound. North of 14th Street, Tenth Avenue runs uptown (northbound) for 45 blocks as a one-way street until its intersection with West 59th Street, where it becomes Amsterdam Avenue but continues without interruption. Amsterdam Avenue continues as a one-way street northbound until Cathedral Parkway, where two-way traffic resumes.

As Amsterdam Avenue, the thoroughfare stretches 129 blocks north – narrowing to one lane in each direction as it passes through Yeshiva University's Wilf Campus, between 184th and 186th Streets – before connecting with Fort George Avenue south of Highbridge Park at West 193rd Street.

On the north side of Highbridge Park, unconnected to Amsterdam Avenue on the south side, Tenth Avenue then runs for slightly less than a mile from the northern terminus of the Harlem River Drive at Dyckman Street, to the intersection of West 218th Street and Broadway, where it merges into Broadway.