#NY #NYC NinthAvenue, known as #ColumbusAvenue between West 59th and #110thStreets, is a thoroughfare on the #WestSide of Manhattan in #NewYorkCity. Traffic runs downtown (southbound) along the full stretch from #Chelsea to the #UpperWestSide, except for the lowermost three blocks (from #GansevoortStreet to #14thStreet) where traffic runs northbound carrying traffic from #GreenwichStreet.
#NinthAvenue originates just south of West #14thStreet at #GansevoortStreet in the #WestVillage, and extends uptown for 48 blocks until its intersection with West #59thStreet, where it becomes #ColumbusAvenue – named after Christopher Columbus. It continues without interruption through the Upper West Side to West #110thStreet, where its name changes again, to Morningside Drive, and runs north through #MorningsideHeights to West #122ndStreet.
A one-block stretch of #NinthAvenue between 15th and #16thStreets is also signed as "Oreo Way". The first Oreo cookies were manufactured in 1912 at the former Nabisco headquarters on that block.
The portion of the avenue between 14th and #31stStreets was remodeled in 2008 with a bicycle lane between the eastern curb and the parking lane, followed by another portion between 77th and #96thStreets in 2011.
Above the #LincolnSquare neighborhood—where the ABC television network houses its corporate headquarters in a group of rehabilitated and modern buildings— #ColumbusAvenue passes through the #CentralPark West Historic District, stretching from 67th/68th Streets to #89thStreet. There, the avenue presents a unified streetscape of 5- to 7-story tenement buildings of brick and brownstone with discreet Romanesque and Italianate details, employing cast terracotta details and panels and courses of angle-laid brickwork. Many ornate tin cornices remain. The buildings are separated in mid-block by the narrowest of access alleys, giving glimpses of Ailanthus foliage in the side-street yards. The repeated designs of three or four commercial speculative builders, using the same features and detailing, add to the avenue's architectural unity. There are several generously scaled pre-World War I apartment buildings and the former Endicott Hotel, as well as a small commercial block from the office of McKim, Mead, and White at #72ndStreet.
Between 77th and #81stStreets, #ColumbusAvenue borders the #AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory and #TheodoreRooseveltPark.
#NinthAvenue reappears in the #Inwood neighborhood as a short two-way street in two segments interrupted by the #NewYorkCity Subway's #207thStreet Yard. It runs from West #201stStreet to West #208thStreet, dead-ending at Inwood North #CovePark at the #HarlemRiver, then picks up again at West #215thStreet, and terminates at #Broadway between West #220thStreet and the #BroadwayBridge, at the location where West #221stStreet would normally be. The addresses along this upper stretch from #201stStreet to #Broadway are continuous with the lower portion of #NinthAvenue.
The #NinthAvenue Elevated was a passenger train that ran above #NinthAvenue, beginning in the nineteenth century. The lease for the line was assumed by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) on April 1, 1903. The line ran until it was closed and dismantled in 1940, following the purchase of the IRT by the City of #NewYork, as it was made redundant by the city's #EighthAvenue subway line.
#NinthAvenue and #ColumbusAvenue were converted to carry one-way traffic southbound in two stages. South of its intersection with #Broadway, the avenue was converted on November 6, 1948. The remaining stretch, to #110thStreet, was converted on December 6, 1951.
The #NinthAvenue International Food Festival street fair is held every year in May.
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