6th Avenue runs up the center of Manhattan Island; in his compilation Ferrari in the Bedroom, humorist Jean Shepherd called it “the armpit of Manhattan.” It was originally laid out in 1811 from Carmine Street in Greenwich Village north to the Harlem River, and in 1928 to facilitate the new IND Subway, it was extended south […]
from Forgotten New York http://forgotten-ny.com/2017/05/x-marks-avenue/
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