Everything about Seventh Avenue Manhattan totally explained
Seventh Avenue/
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard is a thoroughfare on the West Side of the
borough of
Manhattan in
New York City. It carries traffic downtown (southbound) south of
Central Park but both ways north of it.
Seventh Avenue originates in the
West Village at Clarkson Street, where
Varick Street becomes Seventh Avenue. It is interrupted by Central Park from
59th to
110th Street. Artisans' Gate is the 59th Street exit from Central Park to Seventh Avenue. North of the Park, the road runs in both directions through
Harlem, where the road is called
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard. The road continues across the
Harlem River via the
Macombs Dam Bridge, where it becomes
Jerome Avenue upon reaching
the Bronx.
Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center on Seventh Avenue in the West Village is a main downtown hospital.
Running through the
Garment District (which stretches from
12th Avenue to
5th Avenue and
34th Street to 39th Street), it's referred to as
Fashion Avenue due to its role as a center of the garment and
fashion industry and the famed
fashion designers who established New York as a world fashion capital. The first, temporary signs designating the section of Seventh Avenue as "Fashion Avenue" were dual-posted in 1972, with permanent signs added over the ensuing years.
Seventh Ave is also famous for crossing
Broadway and
42nd Street at an intersection known as
Times Square.
Carnegie Hall,
Madison Square Garden and
Penn Station, The
Fashion Institute of Technology, and
James J. Walker Park are some of the notable destinations that reside along 7th Avenue.
The
AXA Center (originally The Equitable Tower), located at 787 Seventh Avenue and
51st Street, is a 229 meter (752 foot) tall skyscraper built in 1986 to house the
AXA Group. Current cornerstone tenants include
BNP Paribas,
Sidley Austin LLP and
Citigroup. Across the street to the northwest is
810 Seventh Avenue and two Sheraton Hotels to the north and west.
The street is mentioned in the
Simon and Garfunkel song
The Boxer, in which the protagonist mentions receiving "come-ons from the
whores on Seventh Avenue." The Rolling Stones also note the street in "Shattered" stating, "I can't give it away on seventh avenue" while referencing other NYC fashion icons. It is also mentioned in
Dashiell Hammett's
The Maltese Falcon, when detective Sam Spade tells the gunman Wilmer that his telling him to "shove off" "would go over big back on Seventh Avenue. But you're not in Romeville now. You're in my burg."
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