59th Street (Manhattan)

59th Street

Looking west along Central Park South
West end	Twelfth Avenue
Major junctions	Grand Army Plaza, Columbus Circle
East end	Sutton Place

59th Street is a crosstown street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, running from York Avenue/Sutton Place to the West Side Highway, with a discontinuity between Ninth Avenue/Columbus Avenue and Eighth Avenue/Central Park West where the Time Warner Center is located. At Second Avenue, 59th Street branches off onto the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, which is often referred to as the 59th Street Bridge, even though 59th Street continues east to York Avenue/Sutton Place.

The portion of the street forming the southern boundary of Central Park from Columbus Circle at Eighth Avenue/Central Park West on the west to Grand Army Plaza at Fifth Avenue on the east is known as Central Park South. Entry into Central Park can be made at the Scholars' Gate at Fifth Avenue, the Artists' Gate at Sixth Avenue, the Artisans' Gate at Seventh Avenue, and the Merchants' Gate at Columbus Circle. Central Park South contains four famous upscale hotels: the Plaza Hotel, the Ritz-Carlton, which is the flagship of the Ritz-Carlton chain, the Park Lane, and JW Marriott Essex House.

While Central Park South is bi-directional, the section of 59th Street between Ninth and Eleventh Avenue/West End Avenue is one-way westbound, and the section between Fifth Avenue and Second Avenue is one-way eastbound.

59th Street forms the border between Midtown Manhattan and Uptown Manhattan. North of 59th Street, the Manhattan neighborhoods of the Upper West Side and Upper East Side continue on either side of Central Park. On the West Side, Manhattan's numbered avenues are renamed north of 59th Street, with Eighth Avenue becoming Central Park West, Ninth Avenue renamed Columbus Avenue, Tenth Avenue renamed Amsterdam Avenue, and Eleventh Avenue becoming West End Avenue.

Landmarks

Sherry Netherlands Hotel and GM Building face each other across 59th Street

• Roosevelt Island Tramway at Second Avenue
• Bloomingdale's Department Store at Lexington Avenue
• Bloomberg World Headquarters/One Beacon Court/LeCerq Between Third Ave and Lexington Ave
• 59E59 Theaters an Off-Broadway theater complex between Park & Madison Avenues
• General Motors Building at Fifth Avenue
• Grand Army Plaza
• Plaza Hotel at Fifth Avenue
• Central Park
• New York Athletic Club and 200 Central Park South at SE and SW corners of Seventh Avenue
• Trump International Hotel and Tower at Columbus Circle
• 2 Columbus Circle
• Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle
• St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center at 10th Avenue
• IRT Powerhouse fills the entire block between 58th to 59th Street, and from 11th to 12th Avenues.
• Hudson River Park extends along the Hudson River from Battery Park to 59th Street.

See also

• New York City portal

References

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