112th Street (Manhattan)

East of Broadway

112th Street is a street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The westernmost section of the street in Morningside Heights runs from Riverside Drive to Amsterdam Avenue, where it meets the steps of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. The street resumes at the eastern edge of Morningside Park and extends through Harlem before ending at First Avenue adjacent Thomas Jefferson Park in East Harlem.

Notable Locations

• The exterior of Tom's Restaurant, located at the corner of 112th Street and Broadway in Morningside Heights, was routinely used for transitions in the popular 1990s sitcom Seinfeld. The building, which is owned by Columbia University, is also called Armstrong Hall. Its upper floors house NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the Center for Climate Systems Research, and offices for the Columbia Business School executive education program. Philosopher John Dewey also lived there.
• The axis of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine is aligned with 112th Street. The street is interrupted by the cathedral's west front at Amsterdam Avenue, and the iconic east end of the cathedral looms over the street's path where it continues through central Harlem at a lower elevation, east of Morningside Park.
• A monument to Samuel J. Tilden, the 25th New York governor and Democratic presidential candidate in 1876, stands at the foot of 112th Street along Riverside Drive.