155th Street (Manhattan)

West-east street in Manhattan, New York May 2025 December 2023 thumb|Western end of the upper portion of 155th Street, seen from Riverside Drive. The left roadway leads from Riverside Drive, while the right roadway descends under it. thumb|Eastern viaduct, pictured in 1994 155th Street is a crosstown street separating the Harlem and Washington Heights neighborhoods, in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is the northernmost of the 155 crosstown streets mapped out in the Commissioner's Plan of 1811 that established the numbered street grid in Manhattan.https://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/nyc1811.htm REMARKS OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR LAYING OUT STREETS AND ROADS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, UNDER THE ACT OF APRIL 3, 1807 May 2, 2007 These streets are all sixty feet wide except fifteen, which are one hundred feet wide, viz.: Numbers fourteen, twenty-three, thirty-four, forty-two, fifty-seven, seventy-two, seventy-nine, eighty-six, ninety-six, one hundred and six, one hundred and sixteen, one hundred and twenty-five, one hundred and thirty-five, one hundred and forty-five, and one hundred and fifty-five—the block or space between them being in general about two hundred feet. dead https://web.archive.org/web/20070610165318/http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/nyc1811.htm June 10, 2007 The street consists of upper and lower portions, linked only by a steep pedestrian stairwell. The upper portion starts on the West Side at Riverside Drive, crossing Broadway, Amsterdam Avenue, and St. Nicholas Avenue. At St. Nicholas Place, the terrain drops off steeply, forming Coogan's Bluff. 155th Street is carried on the 1600 ft m on long 155th Street Viaduct, a City Landmark constructed in 1893, that slopes down towards the Harlem River, continuing onto the Macombs Dam Bridge, crossing over (but not intersecting with) the Harlem River Drive.Gray Christopher https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/09/realestate/streetscapes-155th-street-viaduct-elevated-1893-roadway-with-lacy-elegance.html Streetscapes/The 155th Street Viaduct; An Elevated 1893 Roadway With a Lacy Elegance The New York Times July 9, 2000 November 10, 2007204-205 An unconnected lower section of 155th Street runs at ground level under the viaduct, between a dead-end west of Bradhurst Avenue and a service road of the Harlem River Drive.https://www.google.com/maps/place/Macombs+Dam+Bridge/@40.8280968,-73.9338342,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x5e0021e91772341e?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihq8_11PDmAhXMTN8KHfBHDEsQ_BIwFnoECCAQCA Macombs Dam Bridge January 7, 2020 Transportation The New York City Subway serves the upper portion of 155th Street at 155th Street/St. Nicholas Avenue on the IND Eighth Avenue Line and the lower portion at 155th Street/Frederick Douglass Boulevard on the IND Concourse Line.map Bus service is provided by the Bx6 Bx6 SBS y east of Broadway, the M2 east of Edgecombe Avenue, and the M3 between Amsterdam and Saint Nicholas Avenues, all under New York City Bus. Points of interest December 2023 Highbridge Park – situated on the banks of the Harlem River near the northernmost tip of Manhattan, between 155th Street and Dyckman Street.http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=7732 Highbridge Park live https://web.archive.org/web/20070926223534/http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=7732 September 26, 2007 New York City Department of Parks and Recreation November 10, 2007 Polo Grounds – The second and third (final) incarnations of the famed stadium were located at what was then 8th Avenue from 1889 to 1963, in Coogan's Hollow on the north side of the viaduct. Over its life, it was home of the New York Giants (1889–1957), New York Yankees (1913–1922) and New York Mets (1962–1963) baseball franchises, and the New York Giants (1925–1955) and New York Jets (1960–1963) football teams. Rucker Park – located at Frederick Douglass Boulevard, Rucker Park is one of the premier havens of streetball, and its summer league has been the launching point for many NBA players.http://www.insidehoops.com/rucker/directions.shtml Directions to Rucker Park InsideHoops.com November 10, 2007 Hispanic Society of America – Museum of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American art and artifacts, as well as a rare books and manuscripts and research library, located at Audubon Terrace. Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, on the south side of 155th between Broadway and Riverside Drive. References External links I Can't Drive 155, Forgotten-NY 40.8312 -73.9422 type:landmark_region:US-NY_dim:2000 title 155 Category:Harlem Category:Washington Heights, Manhattan