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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>1st Avenue: New York Songlines</TITLE> <meta name="description" content="An illustrated virtual walking tour of Manhattan's First Avenue and Allen Street, with landmarks, history and trivia, shops, bars and restaurants. Includes East Harlem, Yorkville, Turtle Bay, the East Village and the Lower East Side."> <meta name="keywords" content="New York City, New York, Manhattan, Harlem, East Harlem, Yorkville, Kips Bay, Beekman, United Nations, UN, Turtle Bay, walking tour, guide, history, landmarks, secret, address, architecture, restaurant, nightlife, shopping, eating, drinking"> <meta name="author" content="Jim Naureckas"> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#CCCCCC" TEXT="#000000"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="820" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <center> <h1><a href="http://www.nysonglines.com/">New York Songlines:</a> 1st Avenue</h1> <h2>with Allen Street and Pike Street</h2> <p><a href="#FDR">FDR Drive</a> | <a href="#126st">E 126th</a> | <a href="#125st">E 125th</a> | <a href="#124st">E 124th</a> | <a href="#120st">E 120th</a> | <a href="#119st">E 119th</a> | <a href="#118st">E 118th</a> | <a href="#117st"><b>E 117th</b></a> | <a href="#116st">E 116th</a> | <a href="#115st">E 115th</a> | <a href="#114st">E 114th</a> | <a href="#112st">E 112nd</a> | <a href="#111st">E 111st</a> | <a href="#110st">E 110th</a> | <a href="#109st">E 109th</a> | <a href="#108st">E 108th</a> | <a href="#106st">E 106th</a> | <a href="#105st">E 105th</a> | <a href="#104st">E 104th</a> | <a href="#103st">E 103rd</a> | <a href="#102st">E 102nd</a> | <a href="#101st">E 101st</a> | <a href="#100st">E 100th</a> | <a href="#99st">E 99th</a> | <a href="#97st"><b>E 97th</b></a> | <a href="#96st">E 96th</a> | <a href="#95st">E 95th</a> | <a href="#94st">E 94th</a> | <a href="#53st">E 53rd</a> | <a href="#92st">E 92nd</a> | <a href="#91st">E 91st</a> | <a href="#90st">E 90th</a> | <a href="#89st">E 89th</a> | <a href="#88st">E 88th</a> | <a href="#87st"><b>E 87th</b></a> | <a href="#86st">E 86th</a> | <a href="#85st">E 85th</a> | <a href="#84st">E 84th</a> | <a href="#83st">E 83rd</a> | <a href="#82st">E 82nd</a> | <a href="#81st">E 81st</a> | <a href="#80st">E 80th</a> | <a href="#79st">E 79th</a> | <a href="#78st">E 78th</a> | <a href="#77st"><b>E 77th</b></a> | <a href="#76st">E 76th</a> | <a href="#75st">E 75th</a> | <a href="#74st">E 74th</a> | <a href="#73st">E 73rd</a> | <a href="#72st">E 72nd</a> | <a href="#71st">E 71st</a> | <a href="#70st">E 70th</a> | <a href="#69st">E 69th</a> | <a href="#68st">E 68th</a> | <a href="#67st"><b>E 67th</b></a> | <a href="#66st">E 66th</a> | <a href="#65st">E 65th</a> | <a href="#64st">E 64th</a> | <a href="#63st">E 63rd</a> | <a href="#62st">E 62nd</a> | <a href="#61st">E 61st</a> | <a href="#60st">E 60th</a> | <a href="#59st">E 59th</a> | <a href="#58st">E 58th</a> | <a href="#57st"><b>E 57th</b></a> | <a href="#56st">E 56th</a> | <a href="#55st">E 55th</a> | <a href="#54st">E 54th</a> | <a href="#53st">E 53rd</a> | <a href="#52st">E 52nd</a> | <a href="#51st">E 51st</a> | <a href="#50st">E 50th</a> | <a href="#49st">E 49th</a> | <a href="#48st">E 48th</a> (U.N. Headquarters) | <a href="#47st">E 47th</a> | <a href="#46st">E 46th</a> | <a href="#45st">E 45th</a> | <a href="#44st">E 44th</a> | <a href="#42st"><b>E 42nd</b></a> (Tudor City) | <a href="#41st">E 41st</a> | <a href="#40st">E 40th</a> | <a href="#39st">E 39th</a> | <a href="#38st">E 38th</a> | <a href="#37st">E 37th</a> | <a href="#36st">E 36th</a> | <a href="#35st">E 35th</a> | <a href="#34st"><b>E 34th</b></a> (Kips Bay) | <a href="#33st">E 33th</a> | <a href="#30st">E 30th</a> | <a href="#29st">E 29th</a> | <a href="#28st">E 28th</a> (Bellevue Hospital) | <a href="#27st">E 27th</a> | <a href="#26st">E 26th</a> | <a href="#25st">E 25th</a> | <a href="#24st">E 24th</a> | <a href="#23st"><b>E 23th</b></a> | <a href="#22st">E 22nd</a> | <a href="#21st">E 21st</a> | <a href="#20st">E 20th</a> (Stuyvesant Town) | <a href="#19st">E 19th</a> | <a href="#18st">E 18th</a> | <a href="#17st">E 17th</a> | <a href="#16st">E 16th</a> | <a href="#15st">E 15th</a> | <a href="#14st"><b>E 14th</b></a> (East Village) | <a href="#13st">E 13th</a> | <a href="#12st">E 12nd</a> | <a href="#11st">E 11st</a> | <a href="#10st">E 10th</a> | <a href="#9st">E 9th</a> | <a href="#8st">E 8th</a> | <a href="#7st">E 7th</a> | <a href="#6st">E 6th</a> | <a href="#5st">E 5th</a> | <a href="#4st">E 4th</a> | <a href="#3st">E 3th</a> | <a href="#2st">E 2nd</a> | <a href="#1st">E 1st</a> | <a href="#houston">E Houston</a> (Lower East Side) | <a href="#stanton">Stanton</a> | <a href="#rivington">Rivington</a> | <a href="#delancey">Delancey</a> | <a href="#broome">Broome</a> | <a href="#grand">Grand</a> | <a href="#hester">Hester</a> | <a href="#canal">Canal</a> | Division | <a href="#ebroadway">East Broadway</a> | Henry | Madison St | <a href="#cherry">Cherry</a> | South <script async src="https://cse.google.com/cse.js?cx=6ef2c66d7f4c278da"></script> <div class="gcse-search"></div></center> <hr> <p>Allen Street, 1st Avenue below Houston, is named for Captain William Henry Allen, a naval hero of the War of 1812. Commanding the brig <i>Argus</i>, he captured 20 British ships before being killed by cannonfire. <p>Pike Street, the continuation of Allen below Division, is named for Zebulon Pike, the namesake of Pike's Peak. He was also a War of 1812 hero—killed by an ammunition explosion while attacking Toronto in 1813. </td></tr></table> <br><br> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="99CCFF"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h2>Harlem River</h2> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/chrishamby/7981362207/in/photolist-dahyVe-dahyZK-dahvVS-dahvKu-7xBkcx-7xBj9e-dahx4V-dahxEv-7xBjaa-7xBjLe-7xF9PE-7xBjoe-7xF9GU-dahygV-dahxXy-7xBj8D-dahA3Y-dahwUQ-dahz4z-dahuUX-7xF9jE-dahzET-dahzak-7xF93W-boyvS8-dahyQn-dahA8T-7xF9N7-7xBjEH-dtRANC-7xF9Uy-dahvmc-dahwVv-7xF9of-dahveJ-7xBjqx-dahAN3-EzGn9z-7xBjXK-dahx8K-dahwnt-dahvHK-dahvTc-dahyF6-dahzWM-dahybL-dahxHa-7xF9tG-7xBkjB-dahxsu" target="_blank" title="Harlem River site visit"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/8454/7981362207_df82fa3d10_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" align="left" target="_blank" alt="Harlem River site visit"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Not actually a river, but a tidal strait connecting the Hudson River and the East River (neither of which are <a href="https://www.riverkeeper.org/hudson-river/basics/" target="_blank" title="Riverkeeper"> actually</a> <a href="https://untappedcities.com/2017/04/13/the-top-10-secrets-of-the-east-river-nyc/" target="_blank" title="Untapped Cities"> rivers</a> either). (photo: Chris Hamby) <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>W<br>I<br>L<br>L<br>I<br>S<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br><br>B<br>R<br>I<br>D<br>G<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="99CCFF"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <a name="fdr"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <h3>Willis Avenue Bridge</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/vogelium/2064441311/in/photolist-49qNtH-pno4Wi-24YAird-pnmtew-pn6Lwg-8ksZj8-sb3ug6-aftZxT-af3Jv6-drDAzR-85UK3b-bV9yyH-af9tht-drDXR7-aeAX5E-af9uSg-afcnAy-bLiAa8-22TA6XN-drDM32-chtUzm-agm7Rx-9U6xvZ-8mYVT1-8mYVJw-8mVNeR-8mYVNo-8mVNwP-8mYWdq-8mYW7h-88DnYG-8mVP4X-eAWLsN-sPdWDX-ecBJXh-8tD4sc-GZFxVd-jQZruV-djmavn-y6vxLk-oMdvqK-jv8JfJ-jv6BX8-sqcQh3-EHn125-2mkYKv5-2mkYKvq-2mkYKvk-nGNGpJ-ehaxtv" target="_blank" title="BxMh_Bridges_02"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/2129/2064441311_be6d851656_m.jpg" width="240" height="171" align="right" target="_blank" alt="BxMh_Bridges_02"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p>A truss bridge connecting Manhattan to the Bronx was built in 1901, and strengthened to carry a trolley line in 1916. It was converted to one-way northbound traffic in 1941, as the Third Avenue Bridge was switched to southbound only. (photo: Timothy Vogel) <p>HistoricBridges.org called it "perhaps one of the most beautiful examples of functional architecture ever seen." Unfortunately, in 2010, it was replaced with a much less interesting design. (photo: Peter Roan)  <p>The bridge can pivot to allow large ships to pass, something that happens approximately 14 times a year. <p>The New York City Marathon route passes over this bridge at the 20-mile mark; once they cross, runners have made it to all five boroughs. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     FDR DRIVE      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>West:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908428513/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="126th Street Bus Depot"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908428513_a21f600042_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="left" target="_blank" alt="126th Street Bus Depot"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>Block (301 E 126th):</b> This block now occupied by the <b>126th Street Bus Depot</b> was once the site of the <b><a href="https://www.habgtaskforce.org/" target="_blank"> Harlem African Burial Ground</a></b>, located near the corner of First and 126th, a graveyard for the free and enslaved Black residents of the Dutch colony of Harlem. Established in the 1660s, it was associated with the Low Dutch Reformed Church of Harlem, whose first building was also on this site. <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51922704312/in/photolist-2n7er2S-2n5Ztow-2n5Yi18-2n5YhNK-2n5YhMT-2n5XPhv-2n5ZthK-2n5XPcR-2n5XPoN-2n5XPkG-2n5YhGT-2n5SRnP-2n5Zt8S-2n5YhFR-2n622Lg-2n5XNRR-2n5XNTV-2n5SRrm-2n5YhFv-2n5SRjC-2n5ZsBX-2n5SRhD-2n5SR4s-2n5YhbH-2n5SRbr-2n5Yhji-2n622uV-2n5XNzy-2n5XNxe-2n5SQV6-2n5Yh4o-2n5YgZ5-2n5XNmH-2n5SQK6-2n5SQD9-2n5YgUa-2n5XNhe-2n5ZsgB-2n621EZ-2n621AA-2n621vq-2n5XMT8-2n5Yhaf-2n5ZK9p-2n62y7V-2n5Yh43-2n5Yzg9-2n5Zs9n-2n621JX-2n5YgzT" target="_blank" title="Sulzer's Harlem River Park & Casino"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51922704312_e4a1da663e_n.jpg" width="320" height="188" alt="Sulzer's Harlem River Park & Casino"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p>Circa 1885, <b>Sulzer's Harlem River Park and Casino</b>, one of the city's most popular beer gardens, was built on this block, covering the site of the long-disused graveyard. The building from 1917-18 served as barracks of the 15th New York National Guard Infantry Regiment, later the 369th Regiment, an all-Black infantry unit known as the Harlem Hellfighters. <p>William Randolph Hearst bought the building in 1918 and turned it into a studio for his motion picture company <b>Cosmopolitan Productions</b> (named for the Hearst magazine). More than 40 feature films were shot here, many starring Hearst's mistress <a href="https://www.harlemworldmagazine.com/actress-william-randolph-hearst-lover-harlemite-marion-davies1897-1961/" target="_blank"> Marion Davies</a>. <a name="126st"></a> <p>In the 1940s, the studio was torn down and replaced with a trolley barn for the Third Avenue Railway Company. In 1962, it was bought by what is now the New York City Transit Authority, which used it as a bus depot until 2015. There are currently plans to turn the site of the burial ground into a memorial, with the remainder of the block used for mixed-use development. </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center>W <===</a>         E 126TH ST</h2></center> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908963145/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Purple Jalopy"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908963145_48301b3794_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="left" target="_blank" alt="Purple Jalopy"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>2451 (corner):</b> <b><a href="https://www.marminautobody.com/what_we_do.htm" target="_blank" title="Home"> Marmin Auto Body</a></b>—since 1958. <a name="125st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908658059/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Triborough Bridge Offramp"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908658059_f7c8dedd50_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="left" target="_blank" alt="Triborough Bridge Offramp"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p>Triborough Bridge offramp </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908428528/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Willis Avenue Bridge Abutment"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908428528_775b98bb00_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="right" target="_blank" alt="Willis Avenue Bridge Abutment"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="125st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <p>The street actually splits here—with one branch dead-ending at the FDR and the other going over the bridge. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 125TH STREET/TRIBOROUGH BRIDGE      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>West:</h3> <a name="124st"></a> <p><b>Corner:</b> This corner, now occupied by the Triborough Bridge onramp, was the second location of the <b>Low Dutch Reformed Church of Harlem</b>, relocated here in 1686. At the corner and extending into what is now the intersection was God's Acre, a churchyard reserved for people of European descent. When this burial ground was built over, relatives were given a chance to relocate their loved ones—unlike with the Harlem African Burial Ground. <p><b>Corner:</b> <b>Othmar Ammann Playground</b> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908658679/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Othmar Ammann Playground"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908658679_b47f6bf24b_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="left" target="_blank" alt="Othmar Ammann Playground"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othmar_Ammann" target="_blank" title="Wikipedia"> Ammann</a> (1879-1965) was the Swiss-born engineer who designed the Triborough Bridge, as well as several other NYC bridges, including the George Washington and the Verrazzano. </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center>W <===</a>         E 124 ST</h2></center> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>Robert Wagner Houses</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908658719/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="2405 First Avenue"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908658719_d6fec98a7e_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="left" target="_blank" alt="2405 First Avenue"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> An NYCHA complex of 22 buildings (also known as Triborough Houses) that opened in 1958, housing more than 5,000 people. It's named for Sen. Robert Wagner, a New Deal Democrat who sponsored the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, the Social Security Act of 1935 and the Housing Act of 1937 (the last of these probably explaining why he has a housing project named for him). His son, Robert Wagner Jr., was mayor of NYC from 1954-65. <p><b>2369:</b> More than $100,000 in cash and jewelry was stolen from an apartment in this building during a <a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20151123/east-harlem/more-than-100k-stolen-during-armed-home-invasion-wagner-houses-police" target="_blank" title="DNA Info"> 2015 armed home invasion</a>. <a name="120st"></a> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908964525/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="John S. Roberts Junior High School"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908964525_329ed968b8_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="left" target="_blank" alt="John S. Roberts Junior High School"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>Corner:</b> <b>River East Elementary</b> and <b>John S. Roberts Junior High School</b>. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1938/02/02/archives/john-s-roberts-educator-is-dead-associate-superintendent-of-schools.html" target="_blank"> Roberts</a> was an associate superintendent of schools who led the development of New York's middle school system. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908335671/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Triborough Underpass"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908335671_1757baf6cd_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="right" target="_blank" alt="Triborough Underpass"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> I'm curious what that tent-like building its—probably something utilitarian. Its address is 2590 First Avenue, according to Google Maps. <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="paladino"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center>PALADINO AVE          ===> E</a> </h2></center> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <a name="120st"></a> <h3>Robert Wagner Houses</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908963970/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Robert Wagner Houses"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908963970_a1d761b9e7_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="right" target="_blank" alt="Robert Wagner Houses"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br> <p><b>Corner:</b> <b>Metropolitan Family Care Center</b> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 120TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <br><br><br> <p><b>2337:</b> <b>Santiago's Beer Garden</b>, Dominican eatery <p><b>2333:</b> Crown Fried Chicken, halal chain <p><b>2331:</b> Xiang Dragon <p><b>2327:</b> Taqueria El Barrio <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51907369277/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Rx Rx Rx"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51907369277_8b88ed208c_n.jpg" width="320" height="157" alt="Rx Rx Rx"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>2325 (corner):</b> Rx Center </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908964270/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="2336 First Avenue"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908964270_219a6b3269_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="right" target="_blank" alt="2336 First Avenue"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>2336 (corner):</b> David's Deli & Grill is in handsome five-story brick building from c. 1900. <b>CakeBurgers</b>, '50s-style burger joint that makes a cake shaped like a burger, is in the same building. <a name="119st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>2330:</b> Fine Fare Supermarkets <p><b>2326 (corner):</b> Uptown Service Station, BP outlet. You can have your choice of gas stations on upper First Avenue, which is very unusual in Manhattan. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 119TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <br><br><br> <b>2321:</b> Lady's Seafood & Soul Food <br><br> <p><b>2317:</b> Evelyn's Kitchen, bakery cafe <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>2301:</b> La Costenita Deli, Mexican <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>2310:</b> Pizza Born in Harlem <p><b>2308:</b> Wing Wah, Chinese takeout <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="118st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 118TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <br><br><br> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908430413/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Patsy's"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908430413_910ed47301_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="left" target="_blank" alt="Patsy's"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>2287:</b> <b>Patsy's Pizzeria</b> was one of the US's first pizzerias, opened in 1933; Pasquale "Patsy" Lanceri learned the pizza-making craft at Lombardi's on Spring Street, along with John Sasso of John's of Bleecker Street and Totonno Pero of Coney Island's Totonno's. Patsy's is said to have originated the idea of selling pizza by the slice. <br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51907370227/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Guayillo Restaurant & Bar"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51907370227_8d1179e547_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="left" target="_blank" alt="Guayillo Restaurant & Bar"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>2277 (corner):</b> <b>Guajillo</b>, Mexican. A guajillo is a kind of chili pepper. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2></td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51907369882/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="2294 First Avenue"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51907369882_1f42c98dc0_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="right" target="_blank" alt="2294 First Avenue"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <br><br><br> <p><b>2290:</b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternit%C3%A9_Notre-Dame" target="_blank" title="Wikipedia"> Fraternite Notre Dame</a>'s <b>House Mary of Nazareth</b>, a soup kitchen run by a dissident traditionalist Catholic order that believes that the last several popes are illegitimate heretics. <br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="117st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>2276 (corner):</b> Shell station </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 117TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908430698/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Public School 85"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908430698_13d7517156_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="left" target="_blank" alt="Public School 85"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>Corner (346 E 117th):</b> Built in 1906 as PS 85, designed by CBJ Snyder. Rep. Socialist US Rep. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Marcantonio" target="_blank">Vito Marcantonio</a> went to school here, where he was friends with future mob boss Thomas Luchese. After long vacancy, converted to condos in 2019. <br><br><br> <p><B>2265:</b> Peacock Gourmet <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <br><br><br> <p><b>2270:</b> Cassava House, sandwich shop with <a href="https://flic.kr/p/HtEswP" target="_blank"> fantastic murals</a>. <br><br> <p><b>2266:</b> Family Deli & Grill <br><br> <p><b>2262:</b> <b>Sapoara</b>, Latin American bar & grill. <p><b>2260:</b> Teng Dragon, Chinese takeout <br><br><br> <a name="136st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 116TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>2257 (corner):</b> <b>Boca Prime</b>, steakhouse <br><br><br><br><br> <br> <p><b>2247:</b> La Avenida NYC, Mexican <p><b>2245:</b> Makana, Japanese <br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>2241:</b> Barcha, Latin/Mediterranean comfort food <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908337501/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="2254 First Avenue"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908337501_6c6d6a4c92_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="right" target="_blank" alt="2254 First Avenue"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>2254 (corner):</b> Attractive building with curved corner, built c. 1900. <p><b>2250:</b> Raices Dominicana Cigar, tobacco shop <a name="115st"></a> <p><b>2248:</b> <b>Taqueria Santa Fe</b>, Mexican <p><b>2246:</b> Fierce Spa <p><B>2244:</b> New Level Juice <p><B>2242:</b> Manhattan Funeral Service <p><b>2240 (corner):</b> Monuments by Effie. "Work done in all cemeteries." </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 115TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>West:</h3> <h3>Jefferson Houses</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908661589/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Thomas Jefferson Houses"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908661589_1726d830f3_n.jpg" width="320" height="180" alt="Thomas Jefferson Houses"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>Block (300 E 115th):</b> NYCHA project with 18 buildings, completed in 1959. It seems to have more than its share of maintenance issues, with stories online about mold, lack of heat, water gushing up from sinks, basements flooded with sewage. <p>I suspect that today one would not name a Harlem housing project after a president who was an infamous slaveowner. It seems to be named after the park across the street, rather than the other way around. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="112st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center>W <===</a>         E 112TH ST</h2></center> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <p><b>2165 (corner):</b> Gotham 1st Ave Gourmet Deli <a name="120st"></a> <p><b>2163:</b> <b><a href="https://stonersklub-university-llc.business.site/" target="_blank"> Stonersklub University</a></b> <br><br><br> <p><b>2157:</b> The Beauty Cave <br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>East:</h3> <a name="paladino"></a> <p><b>2236:</b> Ms. Bubble! Laundromat <p><b>2234:</b> Eastside Deli; Great Wall Chinese food <p><B>2232:</b> Oliver's Dog & Cat Clinic <br><br><br> <p><b>2226A:</b> Betty's Tattoo Shop <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908430928/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Casa de la Providencia II"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908430928_7c78361a0a_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="Casa de la Providencia II"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>2222 (corner):</b> <b>Casa de la Providencia</b>. Don't know what this place did or whether they're still doing it. </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center>E 114TH ST          ===> E</a> </h2></center> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="66ff66"> <h3>Thomas Jefferson Park</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51907370807/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Thomas Jefferson Soccer Field"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51907370807_15ec459be3_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="right" target="_blank" alt="Thomas Jefferson Soccer Field"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Opened in 1902 as an improvement for what was then Italian Harlem. Its playground had what was said to be the first running track set aside for girls. In 1911, a "farm garden" was added to teach neighborhood kids about agriculture; a grove of trees was planted in 1923 to honor World War I dead. <a name="111st"></a> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908338371/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Thomas Jefferson Play Center"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908338371_db35994e4b_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="right" target="_blank" alt="Thomas Jefferson Play Center"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"> </script> <p>The recreation center was added in 1936, a WPA project instigated by Robert Moses as part of his plan to add public swimming pools to New York City. Neo-classical elements were added to the building's design as an allusion to the park's namesake. <p>Moses apparently intended this as pool for whites, supposedly hiring white lifeguards and setting the temperature cooler than at other pools to discourage Black visitors—though violence by white patrons was probably more effective in maintaining segregation. Today it serves the neighborhood's largely Latin population. <p>The building was landmarked in 1990. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 111ST STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>2141 (block):</b> A Con Ed facility of some sort; it's said to be a "service center," whatever that means. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908431813/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Manhattan Mini Storage"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908431813_66ee8acd91_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="right" target="_blank" alt="Manhattan Mini Storage"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>2140 (block):</b> The building housing a Manhattan Ministorage outlet is said to date to 1913, though it looks more modern than that. <br> <a name="110st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 110TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>2135 (corner):</b> Blue Sky Deli <p><b>2131:</b> La Tropezienne Bakery <a name="109st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>2121 (corner):</b> Wagner Food Mart </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center>W <===</a>         E 109TH ST</h2></center> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center>W <===</a>         E 108TH ST</h2></center> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>Franklin Plaza Apartments</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51907372172/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Franklin Plaza Apartments"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51907372172_d453fa6afa_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="left" target="_blank" alt="Franklin Plaza Apartments"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <h3>1199 Plaza</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908339451/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="1099 Plaza"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908339451_1f71a78db0_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="1099 Plaza"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> "One of the city's most impressive and most livable works of multifamily housing"—<i>AIA Guide</i> <p>Named for District 1199, the healthcare union, which sponsored the 1973 project. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br> <a name="106st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51907372357/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Anna M. Short School"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51907372357_f41d9b989b_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="right" target="_blank" alt="Anna M. Short School"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>2060 (corner):</b> <b>PS 146: Anna M. Short</b> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 106TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2></td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <h3>Wilson Houses</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908339571/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Wilson Houses"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908339571_50ed5c959c_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="right" target="_blank" alt="Wilson Houses"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p>Named for <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/158356/woodrow-wilson-racism-princeton-university" target="_blank" title="New Republic"> notorious racist</a> Woodrow Wilson. <br><br><br><br> <a name="105st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 105TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>West:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51907372562/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="2033 First Avenue"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51907372562_e473ff665b_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="left" target="_blank" alt="2033 First Avenue"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>2033 (corner):</b> Built c. 1910. <a name="104st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center>W <===</a>         E 104TH ST</h2></center> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <br><br><br><br> <a name="103st"></a> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908433123/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="White Castle"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908433123_52b9024f34_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="left" target="_blank" alt="White Castle"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>Corner (351 E 103rd):</b> This White Castle outlet is something you very rarely see in Manhattan: a business in a free-standing building with a parking lot in front. </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center>W <===</a>         103 ST</h2></center> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <p><b>Block (333 E 102nd):</b> <b>Hampton Court</b>, luxury complex from 2004. <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table cellpadding="10" border="1" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>East:</h3> <h3>East River Houses</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908968195/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="East River Houses"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908968195_f2676d8785_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="right" target="_blank" alt="East River Houses"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p>Housing project built in 1940-41 with 10 buildings ranging from six to 11 stories. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 102ND STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>West:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908433413/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Welcome to Metro North Plaza Houses"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908433413_3657625679_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="left" target="_blank" alt="Welcome to Metro North Plaza Houses"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <a name="101st"></a> <p><b>Block (345 E 101st):</b> <b>Metro North Houses</b>, NYCHA <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center>E <===</a>         E 101ST ST</h2></center> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <p><b>1955 (block):</b> <b>The Aspen</b> is a mixed-income development designed in 2004 by Costas Kondylis. <p>In 1982, the New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/05/nyregion/e-100th-st-worst-block-precinct-23-one-neighborhood-battles-crime-series.html" target="_blank"> described</a> 100th Street between First and Second avenues as the "worst block" in New York City. <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="100st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908663324/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="The Crossing"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908663324_32095af360_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="right" target="_blank" alt="The Crossing"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1940-1960 (corner):</b> This 1973 building, part of a complex known as <b>The Crossing</b>, is on the site of 409 East 100th, where in 1928 cannibal serial killer <a href="http://strangenewyork.blogspot.com/2007/08/grey-man.html" target="_blank" title="Strange New York"> Albert Fish</a> ate one of his victims, 10-year-old Grace Budd. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 100TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908340611/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="342 East 100th Street"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908340611_37e41732ec_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="left" target="_blank" alt="342 East 100th Street"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>Corner (342 E 100th):</b> Built 1925. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>Corner:</b> Sanitation Department parking <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908663839/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Sanitation Trucks"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908663839_32d44ac1d5_n.jpg" width="320" height="213" align="left" target="_blank" alt="Sanitation Trucks"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908340881/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Up the Down Staircase"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908340881_e2406b9169_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="right" target="_blank" alt="Up the Down Staircase"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>Block:</b> Educational complex includes M.S. 224 Manhattan East School for Arts & Academics, Innovation Charter High School and a branch of Success Academy. <p>The 1967 film <i>Up the Down Staircase</i> was shot here. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br> <a name="99st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 99TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <h3><a href="https://www.nychealthandhospitals.org/metropolitan/history/" target="_blank" title="History"> Metropolitan Hospital</a></h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajay_suresh/48200143392/in/photolist-7BAW1-pcrV9-2grhkn3-H83K2g-Z6Vm34-QSPMgS-H6BbtM-VGDgZS-DHgtXQ-2jSqki-2jSpTP-oHQWR-TLsuW9-TLspZL-22pE8yc-FczeaN-9enwgx-5G9dX4-2VqpPL-CLbKc6-EgWe7C-K6X4PX-8kVuts-9PVyng-9PYSNS-2m7dmhW-9PYStJ-29ocKbH-4xJD2E-7K5DPW-5zX6eA-5zXqyG-5zSQMZ" target="_blank" title="Metropolitan Hospital Center"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48200143392_e68aedfca4_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="left" target="_blank" alt="Metropolitan Hospital Center"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p>1901 (block):</b> Founded in 1875 as the Homeopathic Hospital on Ward's Island, it moved in 1894 into the former New York Asylum for the Insane on Blackwell's (now Roosevelt) Island and was renamed Metropolitan Hospital. It moved here to East Harlem in 1955. <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908434123/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Metropolitan Hospital Emergency"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908434123_49a457206a_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="left" target="_blank" alt="Metropolitan Hospital Emergency"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p>The hospital has always had an affiliation with the <b> <a href="https://www.nymc.edu/about-nymc/history/" target=_blank" target="_blank" title="History"> New York Medical College</a></b> (formerly the New York Homeopathic Medical College), founded in 1860 by a group led by <i>New York Evening Post</i> editor William Cullen Bryant. <p>The Emmy-winning documentary <i>Hospital</i> was shot here in 1969. <p>Photo: Ajay Suresh. <br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908341246/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Draper Hall II"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908341246_61b1f8761e_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="right" target="_blank" alt="Draper Hall II"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1918 (corner):</b> <b>Draper Hall Nurses' Residence</b>, associated with Metropolitan Hospital Center. Built 1962. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br> <a name="97st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 97TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/28516908@N08/3283125564/in/photolist-617SRb" target="_blank" title="1941, 96th St"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/3175/3283125564_0f294a5a8a_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="left" target="_blank" alt="1941, 96th St"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>Block (321 E 96th):</b> <b>School of Cooperative Technical Education</b> <br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="66FF66"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <p><b>Block:</b> Handball and basketball courts. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="96st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 96TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER> <i>The boundary between East Harlem and Yorkville.</i> </H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>West:</h3> <a name="95st"></a> <p><b>Corner:</b> Shell station <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center>W <===</a>         E 95TH ST</h2></center> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <a name="94st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>Corner (345 E 94th):</b> <b>The Chesapeake</b>, 30-story apartment building from 1999. </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center>W <===</a>         E 94TH ST</h2></center> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <br><br> <p><b>1809:</b> Sheridan Fencing Academy <br><br> <p><b>1797:</b> Healthy Organic Deli <br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <p><b>Corner:</b> <b>Stanley Isaacs Playground</b>. Isaacs was a Republican politician, Manhattan bureau president from 1938-1942; he's remembered for his support of housing and Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. The playground is home to the Manhattan Roller Hockey League. <h3>Isaacs House</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908434213/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Isaacs Houses"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908434213_6aca629a6d_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="Isaacs Houses"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p>Also named for Stanley Isaacs. The boxy structure in the middle of the complex contains an electrical generator, raised above the floodline in preparation for the next hurricane. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51907373877/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="MEP Annex"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51907373877_acf44bd2d8_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="right" target="_blank" alt="MEP Annex"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="93st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 93RD STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908969495/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Holmes Towers"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908969495_b4884eaabb_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="Holmes Towers"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1790 (block):</b> <b>John Haynes Holmes Towers</b>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Haynes_Holmes" target="_blank" title="Wikipedia"> Holmes</a> was a minister who helped found the NAACP and the ACLU. <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="92st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 92ND STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908664659/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="1779 First Avenue"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908664659_b46bafb06a_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="left" target="_blank" alt="1779 First Avenue"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1779 (corner):</b> East River Cleaners is in a charming 1910 building. <p><b>1777:</b> Fresh Wok <br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>Corner (333 E 91st):</b> <b>Azure</b>, a nice-looking 34-story blue-glass apartment building, built by the Educational Construction Fund to fund the construction of the East Side Middle School next door on 91st Street. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908969515/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="River East Apartments"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908969515_6d744dfbbc_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="River East Apartments"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>Corner (408 E 92nd):</b> River East Apartments, 15 stories built in 2005. Prime Gourmet Market on the ground floor. <p><b>1764:</b> Yeti Spice Grill, halal; Krua Thai <p><b>1762:</b> Au Jus Slow-Roasted Meats; International Wings Factory <p><b>1760:</b> Pizza City <p><b>1758:</b> Yummy Sushi <br><br><br> <a name="91st"></a> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908969850/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="1756 First Avenue"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908969850_a04c55e1fb_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="1756 First Avenue"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>1756 (corner):</b> First on First Deli & Grill </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 91ST STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>Corner (354 E 91st):</b> The Cole, a 22-floor <a href="https://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/yorkville/the-cole-354-east-91st-street/review/27293" target="_blank" title="City Realty"> "bland box"</a> built in 2003 as The Electra. <p><b>1745:</b> <b> <a href="https://www.avenuechurchnyc.org/our-history" target="_blank" title="History"> Avenue Church NYC</a></b> began in 1877 on East 74th Street as the First Evangelical Bohemian Presbyterian Church, serving Czech immigrants. Later known as the Jan Hus Church, it was noted for its willingness to marry members of different ethnic groups. Later it became one of the first congregations to welcome gay and lesbian worshippers. <p><b>1743:</b> Eastside Cellars, wine <p><b>1741 (corner):</b> First Ave Gourmet Deli </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2></td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <br> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>1746:</b> Pio Pio 3, Peruvian <p><b>1744:</b> Noodle Fun, Chinese takeout; <b>Sabor a Mexico</b>, one of three in a mini-chain— I can vouch for the one in the East Village. <a name="90st"></a> <p><b>Corner (401 E 90th):</b> <b> <a href="https://ny.eater.com/2019/5/7/18535484/michaeli-bakery-open-lower-east-side-nyc" target="_blank" title="Eater"> Michaeli Bakery</a></b>, Israeli-style pastry </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 90TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>1733 (corner):</b> <b>Park East Kosher Butchers and Fine Foods</b>, opened 1962. <br><br> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51907374312/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Mellow Yellow"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51907374312_9bb3225ddd_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="left" target="_blank" alt="Mellow Yellow"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1729:</b> Mellow Yellow Coffee & Vibes, coffee house/restaurant. The name evokes the <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/smoking-banana-peels-1960s-donovan-mellow-yellow-hoax" target="_blank" title="Atlas Obscura"> '60s-era rumor</a> that you could get high from smoking banana peels, as well as the <a href="https://youtu.be/bb3WpOJvsug" target="_blank" title="YouTube"> song by Donovan</a>, which turns out to be about a vibrator. <br> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908664904/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Century Tower"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908664904_73d45418d7_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="Century Tower"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>Corner (400 E 90th):</b> <b>Century Tower</b>, a 23-story apartment building from 2000. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="89st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>1726 (corner):</b> Eastside Grocery, since 1992. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 89TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br> <p><b>1705:</b> Stella & Fly, wine bar/cafe <br><br> <P><b>1701 (corner):</b> Roma Pizza </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>1716:</b> Pho Shop, Vietnamese <br><br> <p><b>1712:</b> Basilic Restaurant <br><br><br> <a name="88st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 88TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908969995/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="360 East 88th Street"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908969995_6fd6cc37f1_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="left" target="_blank" alt="360 East 88th Street"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>Corner (360 E 88th):</b> <b>Leighton House</b>. The <i>AIA Guide</i> likes the base. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51907374782/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Welcome to Bareburger"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51907374782_4a191a3050_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="left" target="_blank" alt="Welcome to Bareburger"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1685:</b> Conmigo, Mexican; New East Garden Restaurant, Chinese <p><b>1683:</b> Was Aces & Eights, bar <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>1681 (corner):</b> Bareburger, local chain </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908665139/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="1662-1682 First Avenue"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908665139_305dd5dd1c_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="right" target="_blank" alt="1662-1682 First Avenue"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1682 (corner):</b> <b>Phil Hughes Bar</b> has been here since 1957—though the five flat-screen TVs have not. <p><b>1680:</b> New Sunny East 88, Chinese <p><b>1678:</b> Avoca, bar <p><b>1676:</b> Animal Health Center <br><br> <p><b>1672:</b> Spellman Gallery <br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="87st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 87TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <br><br> <p><b>1665:</b> Punjabi Junction, Indian <P><b>1663:</b> Lashevet, Mideastern; Padoca Bakery, Brazilian <br><br> <p><b>1659:</b> Peng's Noodle Folk, ramen <p><b>1657:</b> Le Grand Triage: Wine & Whiskey. "Triage" means "sorting" in French, reflecting this liquor store's highly curated selections. <br><br> <p><b>Corner (361 E 86th):</b> New Hybrid Florist, since 1937 </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2></td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="96st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 86TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908665324/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Gracie's Corner"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908665324_758e7f7fab_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="left" target="_blank" alt="Gracie's Corner"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1651 (corner):</b> Was Gracie's Corner, longrunning diner that moved to Second Avenue in 2014, leaving its cool neon behind. <br><br> <b><p>1647:</b> Was Pickles & Olives, a store that specialized in pickles and olives. <br><br> <b><p>1643:</b> Was <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/danny-and-eddies-new-york" target="_blank" title="Yelp"> Danny's & Eddie's</a>, bar. I think this whole block may be scheduled for demolition. <br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <P><b>1646 (block):</b> This unassuming 17-story, built in 1968, is called Tri-Faith House; I'm guessing the name reflects hopes for peace following the 1967 War in the Mideast. Yorkshire Wines & Spirits on ground floor. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="85st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 85TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <br><br> <p><b>1629:</b> From 1970 to 2012, was <b><a href="http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/10487" target="_blank" title="Cinema Treasures">United Artists East 85th</a></b>. Now Fastbreak Sports. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br> <p><b>Block (351 East 84th):</b> <b>Adam's Tower</b> is a 32-story apartment building from 1970; the cinema was on its ground floor. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908342546/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="400 East 85th Street"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908342546_3d2199e784_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="400 East 85th Street"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>Corner (400 E 85th):</b> 1959 apartment building with 21 floors. Interesting roofline. Champions Martial Arts on ground level. <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="84st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908970795/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="401 East 84th Street"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908970795_aabc25d307_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="401 East 84th Street"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>Corner (401 E 84th):</b> Dunhill; the <i>AIA Guide</i> says its low-hanging balconies gives it "a friendlier relationship with the streetscape." </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 84TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908970755/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="1615 First Avenue"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908970755_c6539282ce_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="left" target="_blank" alt="1615 First Avenue"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1615 (corner):</b> Cute four-story building. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br> <p><b>Corner (353 E 83rd):</b> <b>The Continental</b>, 22 stories from 1967. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51907375152/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="The Strathmore"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51907375152_0b263f7786_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="The Strathmore"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>Corner (400 E 84th):</b> <b>Strathmore Apartments</b>, 43 stories built in 1994. <p><b>1606:</b> <b>Botte UES</b>, Rome-style Italian <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="83st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     83RD STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908970875/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Felice"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908970875_4e91d94a56_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="left" target="_blank" alt="Felice"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1593 (corner):</b> Felice 83 <p><b>1589:</b> <b>Horn's Hook Tavern</b> <p><b>1585:</b> Wine Story <p><b>1583:</b> Little Wolf Cabinet Shop <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <br><br> <p><b>1590:</b> AOC East, French wine bar/bistro <br><br> <p><b>1584:</b> Zabb PuTawn, Thai <p><b>1582:</b> Les Gateaux de Marie (Marie's Cakes), French bakery <p><b>1580:</b> La Mia Pizza <a name="82st"></a> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908342951/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Quatorze"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908342951_6bd9c3b4a1_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="Quatorze"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1578 (corner):</b> <b>Quatorze</b> originally opened on 14th Street (hence the name), then opened a second spot on 79th where Michael Bloomberg was a regular. Moved here in 2019 when that spot faced demolition. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     82ND STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>Corner (350 E 82nd):</b> <b>Wellington Tower</b>, 19 stories built in 1999 with Art Deco flourishes. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <p><b>1576 (corner):</b> Tony Farm's Market, deli <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="81st"></a> <br><br> <p><b>1564:</b> Emack & Bolio's, local ice cream chain <br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 81ST STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <br><br><br><br><br> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51907375492/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Feline Health"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51907375492_b8e148bcf2_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="left" target="_blank" alt="Feline Health"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1533:</b> Feline Health <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>Corner (345 E 80th):</b> <b>Eastwinds Apartments</b>, 31 stories from 1973, designed by Philip Birnbaum. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <p><b>1550 (corner):</b> Gracie Mews Diner <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="80st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>Corner (401 E 80th):</b> <b>Gracie Mews</b>, 40-story apartment building from 1980. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 80TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>1513 (corner):</b> Agata & Valentina, grocery store </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2></td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="79st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER> <A href="79st.htm#1av"> W<===</A>     EAST 79TH STREET     <A href="79st.htm#1av"> ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>1505 (corner):</b> The <b>Lucerne</b>, a 45-floor building by Costas Kondylis from 1990. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>1499:</b> Opened in 1909 as the Yorkville Hippodrome, a nickelodeon. Later it showed German-language films as the Ufa Cosmopolitan Deutsche Sprechfilm Theatre; in 1932, it featured Hungarian films as the Tobis Theatre. It changed to the Europe Theatre in 1938 and the <b><a href="http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/13722" target="_blank" title="Cinema Treasures"> New Europe Theatre</a></b> in 1947. Since 1953, it's been the <b>Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses—East Manhattan Unit</b>. <br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2></td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908343106/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Hampton House"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908343106_d6b9b1bb8f_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="Hampton House"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>Corner (400 E 79th):</b> Hampton House, 31-story slab from 1985. <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>1506:</b> Eva's Garden Florist <br><br> <p><b>1502:</b> Harvest, Asian; First Avenue Liquors <a name="78st"></a> <p><b>1498:</b> Sedutto ice cream <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51907375822/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="1496 First Avenue"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51907375822_f7a037e00f_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="1496 First Avenue"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"> </script> <p><b>1496 (corner):</b> <b>East Side Bagel & Appetizing</b>, since 1976. You ever walk by a movie shoot and wish you could help yourself to the craft table? Well, this is often where those bagels come from. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 78TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>1485:</b> National Dental Upper East Side <p><b>1483:</b> Maruzella, Italian <br><br><br> <p><b>1479:</b> Space Thai <br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <p><b>1494 (corner):</b> Italian Village Pizza <p><b>1488:</b> Nada Deli & Shawarma <p><b>1484:</b> Was Weill Cornell Internal Medicine Associates/Burden Center for the Aging. <br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="77st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 77TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>1475 (corner):</b> Green Kitchen <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br> <p><b>Corner (363 E 76th):</b> Sherman Tower East </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <p><b>Corner (400 E 77th):</b> Emery Towers, 19 stories of white brick from 1964 <p><b>1470:</b> <b>Canyon Road</b>, Mexican <p><b>1466:</b> Momokawa, Japanese <a name="76st"></a> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51907375892/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Hex & Co."><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51907375892_f2e501828b_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="Hex & Co."></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1462 (corner):</b> <b> <a href="https://www.hexmarksthespot.com/" target="_blank" title="Home"> Hex & Co.</a></b>, board game cafe </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 76TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>1445 (corner):</b> <b>The Newport</b>, 19-story, 366-unit apartment building from 1968. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2></td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <p><b>Corner (400 E 76th):</b> <b>The Impala</b>, 31-floor apartment building from 2000, designed by post-modernist Michael Graves. <br><br><br> <a name="75st"></a> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908436413/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="The Pony Bar"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908436413_e5c1a22e51_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="The Pony Bar"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1446:</b> <b>Buena Onda</b>, Mexican <p><b>1444 (corner):</b> <b>Pony Bar</b>, craft beer pub </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 75TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>Corner (330 E 76th):</b> <b>The Saratoga</b>, 39-story condo built in 1985. Carter Horsley <a href="https://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/lenox-hill/the-saratoga-330-east-75th-street/review/8619" target="_blank" title="City Realty"> likes</a> its "quirky charm." <p><b>1437:</b> <b>Bilao</b>, Filipino <p><b>1435:</b> <b>Good Health Cafe</b>, global health food <p><b>1433:</b> <b>The Migrant Kitchen</b>, Latin American <p><b>1431:</b> Numero 28, local pizza chain <br><br> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908436468/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Bendheim Center"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908436468_77bf6031e4_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="left" target="_blank" alt="Bendheim Center"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1429 (corner):</b> The Bendheim Center for Integrative Medicine, part of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Building c. 1910, formerly owned by the Bank of Europe Trust, then bought by Manufacturers Hanover. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908666554/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="2nd Ave Deli"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908666554_8348042bee_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="right" target="_blank" alt="2nd Ave Deli"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1442 (corner):</b> <b>2nd Ave Deli</b>, classic Jewish deli so-called because its original location was at Second Avenue and East 10th. Upstairs is <b>2nd Floor Bar & Essen</b>, a semi-secret bar with great nosh. (Look for the entrance around the corner on 75th Street.) <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>1410:</b> Accolade Collection, clothing <a name="74st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>1388 (corner):</b> Market Deli & Grocery </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 74TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51907376237/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="In Vino Veritas"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51907376237_7d34e50dee_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="left" target="_blank" alt="In Vino Veritas"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1375 (corner):</b> <a href="https://www.invinoveritas.nyc/experience-1.html" target="_blank" title="Home"> <b>In Vino Veritas</b></a>, well-stocked wine store in a space that has been a liquor store since Prohibition ended. The gorgeous stained glass dates to the 19th century, adapted to bear the store's current name. <p><b>1373:</b> <b>The Sefton</b>, bar named for a British Army horse who survived an IRA bombing. Formerly Banshee, Irish sports bar. <p><b>1371:</b> Bark Place, pet groomer <p><b>1367:</b> Cafe Evergreen, Chinese <p><b>1365:</b> Mexiterranean Grill <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908343786/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Finnegan's Wake Pub"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908343786_c5cb86a118_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="left" target="_blank" alt="Finnegan's Wake Pub"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1361 (corner):</b> <b>Finnegans Wake</b>, Irish pub since 1972. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908666634/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="1382 First Avenue"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908666634_449c362abe_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="1382 First Avenue"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1384 (corner):</b> Flavors NYC, deli <p><b>1382:</b> <b>Campagnola</b>, old-school Italian since 1984. Sarah Palin <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/27/world/sarah-palin-covid-nyc-unvaccinated.html" target="_blank" title="NYT"> dined here</a> (outdoors) in January 2022 after testing positive for Covid. The <i>New York Post</i> <a href="https://pagesix.com/2014/07/26/campagnola-changes-hands/" target="_blank" title="NY Post"> says</a> it's "favored by law enforcement and, sometimes, their mobbed-up targets." <br><br> <p><b>1378:</b> <b>Bombay Chowk</b>, Indian (from a Hindi word for "marketplace") <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908343726/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Delizia"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908343726_1be927dc46_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="Delizia"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1374:</b> <b>Delizia</b>, pizzeria opened 1983 <a name="73st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>1372:</b> <b>Vanguard</b>, wine bar <p><b>1370 (corner):</b> B&B Bagels </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 73RD STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <br><br> <p><b>1257:</b> Daona Market Place, groceries <p><b>1255:</b> NorthEast Community Bank, founded 1934 <br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>1347:</b> A Matter of Health, health food <p><b>Corner (355 E 72nd):</b> Eastwood Towers, 19 stories of white brick from 1962. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2></td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908436748/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Petaluma"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908436748_33a4651f7d_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="Petaluma"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1356 (corner):</b> <b>Petaluma</b>, Italian since 1985 <p><b>1354:</b> <b>Nino's</b>, Italian opened in 1991. Owner Nino Selimaj reported being tied up, held at gunpoint and <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/02/14/duo-robs-nyc-restaurant-worker-at-gunpoint-demands-super-bowl-money/" target="_blank" title="NY Post"> robbed of $9,300</a> here in February 2022. <a name="72st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/47728385112/in/album-72157678097965277/" target="_blank" title="Eastview House"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/47728385112_a23aa884b5_m.jpg" width="159" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="The Amherst"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>Corner (399 E 72nd):</b> <b>Eastview House</b>, 20 stories from 1961. It's not clear to me why this building's address is not 401, which is usually the number for the first building northeast of First Avenue. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER> <A href="72st.htm#1av"> W<===</A>     EAST 72ND STREET     <A href="72st.htm#1av"> ===> E</A></CENTER> <p><i>The southern boundary of Yorkville.</i> </H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>Corner (360 E 72nd):</b> This 1964 supertower has a total of 455 apartments. Originally white brick, it was thankfully reclad in red in 2007. <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/33903529908/in/photolist-TDWsg7-2fHArcW-25bBMmt-25bBKf4-2epeEZr-2fHArgd-2fHAroN-25bBNsM-25bBNqc-S2Hgk8-TDWwgG-25bBPpB-2epeKp8-S2GFWz-2bG6Vod-gb8UjE-nDpoRj-nmVitH-kxxc6a-25bBKtF-25bBMrP-25bBK6r-2fHArmd-2fHArsq-25bBKCZ-25bBMd2-25bBM68-25bBMa6-2epeERk-25bBMvB-2fHAs19-25bBMFX-25bBMQ4-25bBN5H-2fHAsb9-S2HnVc-25bBMX8-2fHAs4A-2fHAsid-TDWuwQ-TDWuZ3-2epeJ4H-TDWuRN-2epeHVX-TDWuJJ-25bBNFx-2fHAso3-25bBNCg-25bBNyD-25bBNw4" target="_blank" title="360 East 72nd Street"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/33903529908_59137e4e00_m.jpg" width="240" height="159" align="left" target="_blank" alt="360 East 72nd Street"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <a href="https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2015/11/10/terry-and-the-pirates/" target="_blank">Milton Caniff</a> (1907–1988), creator of the comic strip <i>Terry & the Pirates</i>, lived here from 1964–70. Tennis star Arthur Ashe moved here in 1977. <br> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51907376417/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Coleman Tower"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51907376417_2c1a7b5209_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="Coleman Tower"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1130 (corner):</b> Coleman Tower, a 20-story building that went up in 1987; provides housing for staff of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, which owns the building. <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="71st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 71ST STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>1321 (corner):</b> Sweetgreen, locavore chain <p><b>1319:</b> Dig, farm-sourced veggie chain <p><b>1317:</b> Cafe Luka, diner <p><b>1315:</b> Texas Rotisserie & Grill, barbecue <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>Corner (343 E 70th):</b> <a href="https://www.lenoxhill.org/history" target="_blank" title="About"> <b>Lenox Hill Neighborhood House</b></a>, a settlement house founded in 1894; this is the project's senior center. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908344086/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Windsor Apartments"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908344086_4ec7feeb05_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="Windsor Apartments"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>Corner (400 E 71st):</b> Windsor Apartments, 23 stories from 1979 <p><b>1316:</b> Coffee Inn <br><br> <p><b>1306:</b> Just Salad <br><br><br> <a name="70st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 70TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <br><br> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908437128" target="_blank" title="John Krtil Funeral Home"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908437128_9b2a8c44a4_n.jpg" width="320" height="180" alt="John Krtil Funeral Home"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1297:</b> <a href="https://www.krtilfuneralhome.com/history" target="_blank" title="Home"> <b>John Krtil Funeral Home</b></a> was founded in 1875 by a Czech blacksmith, serving what was then a thriving Czech and Slovak neighborhood; since then it's always been run by a succession of John Krtils. <br><br> <p><b>1293:</b> Hawa Smoothies and Bubble Tea <br><br> <p><b>1287:</b> Dr. Wine, liquor store <br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908437018/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="The Kingsley"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908437018_e55f0e49c8_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="The Kingsley"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>Corner (400 E 70th):</b> <b>The Kingsley</b>, 42 floors from 1984, designed by Stephen Jacobs. "Rhythmically dramatic, even if it is not beautiful"—<a href="https://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/lenox-hill/the-kingsley-400-east-70th-street/review/5542" target=_blank" target="_blank" title="City Realty">Carter Horsley</a>. <br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="69st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 69TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908437243/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Patsy's Pizzeria 69th"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908437243_93081672aa_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="left" target="_blank" alt="Patsy's Pizzeria 69th"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1279:</b> <b>Patsy's Pizzeria 69th</b>, a branch of the venerable East Harlem pizzeria <br><br> <p><b>1275:</b> Kuu, ramen <br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>Corner (359 E 68th):</b> Matto Espresso </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2></td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908344541/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" target="_blank" title="1284 First Avenue"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908344541_149dc95f8f_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" alt="1284 First Avenue"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1284 (corner):</b> An attractively detailed six-story building from 1911. <p><b>1280:</b> Bamboo Sushi is in the same building. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="68st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 68TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="66FF66"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <h3><a href=https://www.tclf.org/st-catherine%E2%80%99s-park" target="_blank" title="Cultural Landscape"> St. Catherine's Park</a></h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908667624/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="St. Catherine's Park"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908667624_b9e5699629_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="left" target="_blank" alt="St. Catherine's Park"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p>Named for St. Catherine of Sienna Church, nearby on East 68th. The park was purchased by the city in 1907 and built as playground in 1917; it's been repeatedly redesigned, most recently in 1996. The layout is said to mirror the form of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, a Gothic church in Rome that houses the remains of St. Catherine (except for her head). The elephant-shaped sprinklers in the park evoke Bernini's elephant statue in front of the Roman church. <p>The park's plantings prominently feature lilies, a symbol of St. Catherine. <br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2></td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908437638/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908437638_90cc415996_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <h3>Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center</h3> <p><b>1250 (block):</b> One of the world's leading cancer treatmnt centers, the institution began as the New York Cancer Hospital, founded on the Upper West Side with money from John Jacob Astor III at the urging of his wife Charlotte, who was shocked to learn that the Women's Hospital of New York refused to accept cancer patients. It moved here in 1939, on land donated by John D. Rockefeller Jr. It merged in 1960 with the Sloan Kettering Institute, a biomedical research facility launched in 1948 by two former GM executives. <a name="67st"></a> <p>Notable patients at Memorial include Babe Ruth, Robert De Niro, Happy Rockefeller and Brian Piccolo, a Chicago Bears player whose illness was dramatized in the movie <i>Brian's Song</i>. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 67TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>1239 (corner):</b> Cafe Fresco <p><b>1237:</b> Chamoun's Way, Lebanese <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>1233:</b> Pizza Park <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>1229:</b> Bagelworks; Greek Eats <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2></td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <p><b>Corner (400 E 67th):</b> <b>The Laurel</b>, a 30-story glass and limestone tower designed by Costas Kondylis, completed 2008. Actor Jennifer Lawrence sold the penthouse here in 2020 for a $6 million loss. <p>The building contains offices of the <b>Weill Cornell Medical College</b>, including its Center for Global Health. The medical school of Cornell University was established in 1898 with a grant from tobacco and oil investor Oliver Hazard Payne; the school was located in New York rather than in Ithaca, where Cornell's main campus is, because a big city would give students a greater variety of clinical experience. It affiliated with New York Hospital, now New York Presbyterian, in 1913. The school changed its name after receiving a $250 million donation from financier Sanford Weill in 1998. <p>Notable alumni include Anthony Fauci, former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, Henry Heimlich of the eponymous maneuver, the Atkins Diet's Robert Atkins, and Dr. Ruth Westheimer. <p>Formerly on the site was the <a href="http://www.nycago.org/Organs/NYC/html/BethanyRef.html" target="_blank" title="NYC Organs"> <b>Bethany Memorial Church</b></a>, built in 1910 to a Nelson & Van Wagenen design. Originally a mission of the Madison Avenue Reformed Church serving East Side immigrants, in the early 1980s it began focusing on ministering to cancer patients, providing lodging to outpatients at the neighborhood's hospitals. In the 1990s, the Collegiate Church Corporation that owned the church sold out to a developer for $143 million; the mission was torn down in 2008. <a name="66st"></a> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908345311/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="St John Nepomucene"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908345311_5a210cf6ff_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="St John Nepomucene"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>Corner (411 E 66th):</b> <a href="http://www.nycago.org/Organs/NYC/html/StJohnNepomucene.html" target="_blank" title="NYC Organs"> <B>St John Nepomucene Church</b></a>. Named for John of Nepomuk, a Bohemian saint who was drowned on the orders of King Wenceslaus IV—who was not the good one. <p>The Roman Catholic congregation started in 1891 as a group of Slovakian immigrants worshiping at St Bridget's on Avenue B; they got their own church on East 4th Street in 1895, and moved uptown to East 57th Street in 1908. The present church was built in 1925, </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 66TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908972925/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="1219 First Avenue"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908972925_26a22b08cc_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="left" target="_blank" alt="1219 First Avenue"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1219 (corner):</b> The Deli Deli; Kung Fu Tea. Building dates to 1920. <p><b>1217:</b> Tai Sheng, Chinese takeout <br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51907377022/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="The Pearl"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51907377022_35cd8de5ca_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="The Pearl"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>Corner (400 E 66th):</b> <b>The Pearl</b>, a 23-story apartment building from 2000. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="65st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>1208 (corner):</b> Gristedes supermarket branch </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 65TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>Corner (360 E 65th):</b> A 21-story building put up in 1962 as <b>The Buxley</b>; now known as Stonehenge 65. <br><br><br> <p><b>1191:</b> <b>Maya</b>, Mexican <br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>1181 (corner):</b> This was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/11/nyregion/maxwell-s-plum-a-60-s-symbol-closes.html" target="_blank" title="NYT"> <b>Maxwell's Plum</b></a> from 1966 until 1988—not the first but perhaps the most famous bar catering to "swinging singles," attracting the likes of Warren Beatty and Barbra Streisand. When it closed, the iconic island bar was bought at auction for Tribeca Grill. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <h3>City and Suburban Homes</h3> <p><b>1168-2000 (block):</b> A for-profit development where investors (including Cornelius Vanderbilt) agreed to limit their profit in order to provide salubrious housing for the working poor. The recessed mid-block entrance is an example of the kind of detail included by architect James Ware to add light and air to the tenement apartments. This section of the project is called <b>First Avenue Estate</b>. <p><b>1198:</b> Oaxaca Taqueria <p><b>1196:</b> Milk & Cookies Kids Spa and Salon <br><br> <p><b>1188:</b> <b>Goldberger's Pharmacy</b>, since 1898 <br> <a name="64st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>1168 (corner):</b> Apple Bank </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 64TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>Corner (340 E 64th):</b> The <b>St Tropez</b>, 34 floors of dark-brown brick that went up in 1964, is considered the city's first condo tower. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <p><b>1166 (corner):</b> Felice 64, Italian <p><b>1164:</b> Ginger Root Vegan, Asian <p><b>1162:</b> Lunetta Pizza <p><b>1158:</b> Cork & Bottle, wine store <p><b>1154:</b> Ahana Sushi <a name="63st"></a> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908438348/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Baker Street Pub"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908438348_df91939da4_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="Baker Street Pub"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1152 (corner):</b> This was the location of the original <b>TGI Friday's</b>, which opened here in March 1965—often cited as the <a href="https://eastsidefeed.com/food-and-drink/first-t-g-i-fridays-upper-east-side-original-singles-bar/" target="_blank" Title="East Side Feed"> first singles bar</a>. (It was after the brand was franchised nationwide that it became associated with family dining.) The exterior was used in the 1988 Tom Cruise film <i>Cocktail</i>—though the interior was a soundstage in Toronto. <p>Before it launched a nightlife revolution, the space was <b>The Good Tavern</b>—"a dirty old First Avenue bar with a bullet hole in the window," <a href="https://gothamist.com/food/fyi-tgi-fridays-started-as-a-nyc-cocktail-joint" target="_blank" title="Gothamist"> according</a> to TGIF founder Alan Stillman. In 1992 it became <b>Boxers</b>, the UES outpost of a Village restaurant that is still there on <a href="4st.htm">West 4th</a>. Later it became the <b>Baker Street Pub</b>, a sports bar named for Sherlock Holmes' address in London. In 2022 it morphed into <b>Irregulars</b>, a more subtle Holmes reference. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 63RD STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>1149 (corner):</b> Moti Mahal Delux, Indian <p><b>1147:</b> Sutton Animal Hospital <p><b>1143:</b> Sushi Seki, spendy Japanese <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>1135:</b> Ravagh, Persian <br><br><br><br><br> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/32261515787/in/dateposted/" target="_blank" title="Ritz Diner"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7858/32261515787_9f25fc4742_m.jpg" width="240" height="159" align="left" target="_blank" alt="Ritz Diner"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1133 (corner):</b> <b>Ritz Diner</b>, open 24 hours. The exterior was used as the Island Diner in the CBS TV show <i>Rules of Engagement</i>. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2></td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <p><b>1144 (corner):</b> Totoya Japanese (was Sushi Yugen <p><b>1142:</b> Frankie's Sandwich Shoppe ("The Hungry Hero") <p><b>1140:</b> Best Pizza #2 <p><b>1138:</b> Roy's Fish Market <p><b>1136:</b> Imli, Indian <p><b>1132:</b> Marwin, Thai <a name="62st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/46480382924/in/dateposted/" target="_blank" title="1130 First Avenue"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7878/46480382924_e9c9e1173b_m.jpg" width="240" height="159" align="right" target="_blank" alt="1130 First Avenue"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1130 (corner):</b> Space Market is in a c. 1900 tenement. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 62ND STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908973255/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="Treadwell Park"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908973255_0081f06daf_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="left" target="_blank" alt="Treadwell Park"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>Corner (350 E 62nd):</b> Beekman Condominium. On the ground floor is <b>Treadwell Park</b>, gastropub mini-chain named for the <a href="https://forgotten-ny.com/2011/09/treadwell-farm/" target="_blank" title="Forgotten NY"> Treadwell Farm Historic District</a> a block to the west. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>1113 (corner):</b> One Lenox, Mediterranean </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2></td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/32261516037/in/dateposted/" target="_blank" title="CMX CineBistro"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7901/32261516037_602be865be_m.jpg" width="159" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="CMX CineBistro"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>Corner (400 E 62nd):</b> Was <b>CMX Cin锽istro</b>, the New York location of a dinner-and-movie chain. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/113306963@N05/29949010171/in/photolist-2tVCMf-MCuvjk-4MgNQu-23VGCd-23VGfS-23VFPN-MGRRhL-8FBYro-8i64Gm-8FBYqo-8FBYt7-8FBYuU-9JZk5Y-5R83Ch-23VwEC-tN8sZ-94eViE-7Dkmh6" target="_blank" title="Dangerfield's Comedy Club"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/7501/29949010171_9f7b642af9_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" align="right" target="_blank" alt="Dangerfield's Comedy Club"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1118:</b> Was <b>Danger- field's</b> comedy club, opened in 1969 by comedian Rodney Dangerfield. Comics who have headlined here include George Carlin, Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno, Chris Rock, Jim Carrey, Roseanne Barr, Tim Allen, Andrew Dice Clay, Bill Hicks, Sam Kinison and Jeff Foxworthy. Closed in 2020, a victim of the Covid pandemic. <a name="61st"></a> <p><b>1114 (corner):</b> Eight-story building from 1947. Goodwill on ground floor. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 61ST STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>1111 (corner):</b> Daily Bagel <p><b>1109:</b> New home of John & Tony's pizzeria. <br><br> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908668624/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="1097 First Avenue"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908668624_55b0419314_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="left" target="_blank" alt="1097 First Avenue"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1097 (corner):</b> Old home of John & Tony's Pizzeria </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2></td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <p><b>Block (401 E 60th):</b> Bridge Tower Place; 38-story tower built in 1999, designed by Costas Kondylis. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br> <a name="60st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W<===</A>     EAST 60TH STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <h2><a href="http://sorabji.com/_/Queensborough_59th_Street_Bridge" target="_blank" title="Images"> Queensboro Bridge</a></h2> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22383183@N06/2792415922/" target="_blank" title="Queensboro Bridge by Darks Adria, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3093/2792415922_3484dcd274_m.jpg" width="240" height="211" alt="Queensboro Bridge by Darks Adria, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> Also known as the 59th Street Bridge— this is the bridge that Simon & Garfunkel sing about in "Feeling Groovy." Completed in 1909, the bridge is mentioned in <i>The Great Gatsby</i>: "The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world." It features as an icon in Woody Allen's <i>Manhattan</i> and the TV series <i>Taxi</i>. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <h3><a href="http://www.riverarchitects.com/portfolio/affiliated-projects/bridgemarket/" target="_blank" title="Images"> Bridgemarket</a></h3> <p>A vaulted space under the Queensboro Bridge, with a ceiling covered in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guastavino_tile" target="_blank" title="Wikipedia"> Gaustavino tile</a>. Long neglected as city storage space, it was converted in 1999 into a Food Emporium and a Conran's Restaurant & Housewares Store. <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="59st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER> <A href="59st.htm#1av"> W <===</A>     EAST 59TH STREET     <A href="59st.htm#1av"> ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51907378512/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="1078 First Avenue"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51907378512_99c33017f0_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" target="_blank" alt="1078 First Avenue"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1076 (corner):</b> Writer John Cheever lived here in the late 1940s before moving to suburban Scarborough, New York, in 1951. In the early 2000s, Casa la Femme North was located here. <a name="58st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908346476/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="1066-1074 First Avenue"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908346476_de1114461a_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="right" target="_blank" alt="1066-1074 First Avenue"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER> <A href="58st.htm#1av"> W <===</A>     EAST 58TH STREET     <A href="58st.htm#1av"> ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>1063 (corner):</b> <b>Rosa Mexicano on First Avenue</b>, part of a local chain <br><br> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908439543/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="357 East 57th Street"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908439543_ff6d70d0b0_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="left" target="_blank" alt="357 East 57th Street"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <br><p><b>Corner (357 E 57th):</b> This 19-story building opened in 1958 was home to "Preppie Killer" Robert Chambers after he was released from his 15-year prison sentence for killing Jennifer Levin in Central Park. He was arrested in 2007 for selling cocaine out of his apartment here and sent back to prison for 19 years. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/takomabibelot/2649735112/" target="_blank" title="Above the Corner, After Dark (New York, NY) by takomabibelot, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3058/2649735112_a38ecf583e_m.jpg" width="240" height="182" alt="Above the Corner, After Dark (New York, NY) by takomabibelot, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <a name="57st"></a> <p><b>Corner (401 E 57th):</b> <b>Ultimate Pizza</b> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER> <A href="57st.htm#1av"> W <===</A>     EAST 57TH STREET     <A href="57st.htm#1av"> ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <a name="56st"></a> <p><b>Corner (360 E 57th):</b> <b>The Morrison</b>, 25-story apartment building from 1983. <br><br><br> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908974655/in/photostream/" target="_blank" title="The Sutton East"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908974655_b86ee9fdaf_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="left" target="_blank" alt="The Sutton East"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>Corner (345 E 56th):</b> A 22-story apartment building from 1960 is on the site of <b>353 E. 56th</b>, where painter Piet Mondrian moved in 1939 after fleeing the Nazi invasion of Holland and then the London Blitz. He painted <i>Broadway Boogie Woogie</i>, now at MOMA, here. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908974245/in/datetaken/" target="_blank" title="1044 First Avenue"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908974245_0385e4bba6_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="left" target="_blank" alt="1044 First Avenue"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>Corner (400 E 57th):</b> 1931 Art Moderne apartment building takes up the whole blockfront, though the ground level stores have their own addresses. <p><b>1038:</b> Best Pizzeria on 1st <br><br><br><br> <p><b>1026:</b> <b>Sutton Cafe</b>. <br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER> <A href="56st.htm#1av"> W <===</A>     EAST 56TH STREET     <A href="56st.htm#1av"> ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <a name="55st"></a> <h3> <h3>Catholic Center of New York</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908346916/in/photostream/" target="_blank" title="Terence Cardinal Cooke Building"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908346916_e66bb8608d_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="left" target="_blank" alt="Terence Cardinal Cooke Building"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>1011 (block):</b> This building, known as the Terence Cardinal Cooke Building, dates to 1979 and is the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. The building is also home to<a href="http://www.cathedralhs.org/" target="_blank" title="Home">Cathedral High School</a>, a Catholic girls' school founded in 1905. It moved here in 1973, supposedly, though that's before this building was reportedly built, so one of these dates seems to be off. <p>Catholic Charities are also based here. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER> <A href="55st.htm#1av"> W <===</A>     EAST 55TH STREET     <A href="55st.htm#1av"> ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <a name="54st"></a> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908439743/" target="_blank" title="360 East 55th Street"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908439743_e1c6f885a3_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="left" target="_blank" alt="360 East 55th Street"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>989 (corner):</b> International Film and Video Center; Reme's Oggi Pets <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <p><b>994 (corner):</b> A 17-story building from 1956 <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER> <A href="54st.htm#1av"> W <===</A>     EAST 54TH STREET     <A href="54st.htm#1av"> ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <a name="53st"></a> <p><b>Corner (350 E 54th):</b> A six-story building from 1959 <br><br> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908974825/in/photostream/" target="_blank" title="Madison Restaurant"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908974825_856d225294_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="left" target="_blank" alt="Madison Restaurant"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>965 (corner):</b> <a href="http://madison1.com/about/" target="_blank" title="Home"> <b>Madison Restaurant</b></a>, a 24-hour diner opened in 1948 </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <p><b>Corner (400 E 54th):</b> <a href="http://www.cityrealty.com/sell/building.cr?bid=1416" target="_blank" title="Image"> <b>The Revere</b></a>, a 30-story, dark-brown-brick apartment tower from 1970. Presumably named for Paul Revere, silversmith and patriot. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br> <p><b>Corner (411 E 53rd):</b> <a href="http://www.cityrealty.com/sell/building.cr?bid=2893" target="_blank" title="Image"> <b>Sutton Manor</b></a>, a 20-story white-brick apartment building from 1960. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER> <A href="53st.htm#1av"> W <===</A>     EAST 53RD STREET     <A href="53st.htm#1av"> ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51908974860/in/photostream/" target="_blank" title="Parnell's Pub"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908974860_bffd8285df_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="left" target="_blank" alt="Parnell's Pub"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>Corner (530 E 53rd):</b> <b>Parnell's Pub</b>, opened in 1968 and named for <a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/charles-stewart-parnell-1773852" target="_blank" title="Thought Co."> Charles Stewart Parnell</a>, the legendary advocate of Irish home rule. <br><br><br><br> <a name="52st"></a> <p><b>949:</b> From 1987 through 2011, this was <b>New York Video</b>, one of the last great video stores in New York City, with more than 20,000 titles. Still operates as a <a href="https://newyorkvideoonline.com/" target="_blank" title="New York Video"> delivery service</a>. <p><b>Corner:</b> Blueberry's Deli </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>948:</b> The site of <b>Billy's Restaurant</b>, opened 1870 and closed 2004—at the time, reportedly the oldest family-owned restaurant in New York. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER> <A href="52st.htm#1av"> W <===</A>     EAST 52ND STREET     <A href="52st.htm#1av"> ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>939 (corner):</b> Jeffrey Wine & Liquor on the ground floor <p><b>Corner (351 E 51st):</b> The <a href="http://www.cityrealty.com/condos/profile.cr?bid=14861&page=2" target="_blank" title="Image"> <b>Beekman Regent</b></a>'s five-story base was originally built as P.S. 135 in 1892 (George W. Debevoise, architect), expanded in 1904. It later served as the <b>United Nations School</b>, educating the children of diplomats. A tower was added to bring it up to 20 stories in a 2000 condo conversion. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/randylevine/139487316/" target="_blank" title="51st Street and 1st Ave by Randy Levine, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/47/139487316_8d66546c2d_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="51st Street and 1st Ave by Randy Levine, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p>This was the site of <b>Mount Pleasant</b>, <a href="https://www.nyhistory.org/web/default.php?section=exhibits_collections&page=exhibit_detail&id=6945501" target="_blank" title="Info"> James Beekman</a>'s mansion. During the Revolutionary War, it was headquarters of the British military force. <a href="http://www.connecticutsar.org/patriots/hale_nathan_2.htm" target="_blank" title="Info"> Nathan Hale</a> was tried and sentenced to death here. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="51st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER> <A href="51st.htm#1av"> W <===</A>     EAST 51ST STREET     <A href="51st.htm#1av"> ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>891 (corner):</b> <b>Azaza</b>, Asian, was Wylie's Ribs and Steak Joint. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <h3><a href="http://www.cityrealty.com/condos/building_iframe.php?lid=14483" target="_blank" title="Image"> The Grand Beekman</a></h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/91499534@N00/388667445/" target="_blank" title="1st Avenue NYC by ehpien, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/179/388667445_438add91a1_m.jpg" width="240" height="229" alt="1st Avenue NYC by ehpien, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>Corner (400 E 51st):</b> A 32-story apartment tower designed by Costas Kondylis and completed in 2002. With a Post-Modern crown and distinctive corner bay windows, it's <a name="50st"></a> a fairly interesting and attractive building—much better than the average generic new apartment building. <br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER> <A href="50st.htm#1av"> W <===</A>     EAST 50TH STREET     <A href="50st.htm#1av"> ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="49st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <p><b>Corner (400 E 50th):</b> This is the address of <a href="http://www.thewomensmosaic.org/aboutus.asp" target="_blank" title="Home"> The Women's Mosaic</a>, "Recognizing our unity, celebrating our diversity." <h3><a href="http://www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/MID003.htm" target="Blank" target="_blank" title="NYAI"> Beekman Tower Hotel</a></h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chathamshooter/257860698/" target="_blank" title="Beekman by chathamshooter, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/104/257860698_837fef9d88_m.jpg" width="159" height="240" alt="Beekman by chathamshooter, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>Corner (3 Mitchell Place):</b> This 28-story Art Deco landmark was originally built in 1928 as the Panhellenic Tower, designed as a residence and clubhouse for members of Greek-letter sororities. The architect was John Mead Howells, the winner (along with Raymond Hood) in the <a href="http://www.jitterbuzz.com/trib_tower.html" target="_blank" title="Info"> Tribune Tower design competition</a>, though it more resembles the influential second-place plan by Eliel Saarinen. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chathamshooter/321677094/" target="_blank" title="Zephyr by chathamshooter, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/133/321677094_07d2e7783d_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="Zephyr by chathamshooter, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p>The Zephyr Grill is in this building but has the address <b>1 Mitchell Place</b>. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER> <A href="49st.htm#1av"> W <===</A>     EAST 49TH ST/MITCHELL PL     <A href="49st.htm#1av"> ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <a name="48st"></a> <p><b>875 (corner):</b> <b>Nations Cafe</b> <p><b>871:</b> <b>German House</b>, Germany's permanent mission to the UN. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br> <p><b>865:</b> This 1929 neo-Medieval building was designed by <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE7DC1E3EF930A3575AC0A963958260" target="_blank"> George & Edward Blum</a>. Christopher Gray praised their work for its "informality" and its "picturesque and varied crowning towers." <p><b>Corner:</b> <b>United Nations Plaza</b>, 1990s apartments by Der Scutt. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dscott28604/827837874/" target="_blank" title="First Avenue, Looking North from the U.N. by dsjeffries, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1133/827837874_c5550c4885_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="First Avenue, Looking North from the U.N. by dsjeffries, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>Block:</b> <b>860 UN Plaza Apartments</b>, a 40-story tower that's part of a 1968 apartment complex designed by Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br> <a name="48st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="820" valign="top"> <br> <h2><center> <a href="48st.htm#1av"> W <===</a>             EAST 48TH STREET             <a href="48st.htm#1av"> ===> E</a></center></h2> <p>Below this intersection flows <b>De Voor's Mill Stream</b>, aka Turtle Creek, which used to flow into Turtle Bay. An 1854 cholera epidemic prompted the city to turn it into a culvert, which still empties into the East River.  </td></tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="340" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>West:</h3> <h3> <a href="http://www.trumpworldtower.com/" target="_blank" target="_blank" title="Home"> Trump World Tower</a></h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/2258859085/" target="_blank" title="NYC - Trump World Tower by wallyg, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2298/2258859085_63ddb44c4a_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="NYC - Trump World Tower by wallyg, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>845 (block):</b> This 72-story building, completed in 2001, is the tallest residential building in the world. <a name="47st"></a> It <a href="<a href="http://www.wirednewyork.com/skyscrapers/trump_world_tower/default.htm" target="_blank"> closely resembles</a> the monoliths from <i>2001</i>, but is far less likely to advance human evolution. </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="340" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center> <a href="47st.htm#1av"> W <=</a> DAG HAMMARSKJOLD PLAZA</h2></center> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="340" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <br><br><br> <p><b>823:</b> Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith is in a 1953 building put up for the Carnegie Endowment International Center. Founded in 1913 as a broad-based civil rights group, the ADL increasingly tends to make support for Israel its litmus test— <a name="46st"></a> honoring Italy's <a href="http://rasa.iht.com/articles/110482.html" target="_blank"> Silvio Berlusconi</a> despite his praise for Mussolini, for example. <br><br> </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="340" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center> <a href="46st.htm#1av"> W <===</a>         E 46TH ST</h2></center> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="340" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <p><b>821 (corner):</b> The UN missions of Turkey and Bangladesh are at this address. <p><b>809:</b> Built in 1961 as the Institute for International Education, this building is noted for its <a name="45st"></a> penthouse Kaufmann Conference Rooms, designed by Finland's <a href="http://www.alvaraalto.fi/" target="_blank"> Alvar Aalto</a>—one of only two US projects by the renowned Modernist architect. </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="340" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center> <a href="45st.htm#1av"> W <===</a>         E 45TH ST</h2></center> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="340" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>Federal Office Building</h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/2261125571/" target="_blank" title="NYC - Federal Office Building (under construction) by wallyg, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2214/2261125571_0d9ee8956b_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="NYC - Federal Office Building (under construction) by wallyg, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>799 (corner):</b> This 35-story building, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill with Maki and Associates, replaced the US Mission to the UN, a 1959 building surrounded by a perforated concrete shell. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/2261127651/" target="_blank" title="NYC - 1 U.N. Plaza by wallyg, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2231/2261127651_e2a5763fd5_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="NYC - 1 U.N. Plaza by wallyg, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <a name="44st"></a> <p><b>787 (corner):</b> <b>1 UN Plaza</b> is a strikingly folded glass and aluminum form by Roche-Dinkeloo (1975). "The public spaces within are some of the best in New York's modern architecture"—<i>AIA Guide</i>. The National Bank of Pakistan is on the 1st Avenue side. The Milennium Plaza UN Hotel starts on the 28th floor. </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="340" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center><a href="44st.htm#1av">W <===</a>         E 44TH ST</h2></center> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="340" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/2261126005/in/photolist-745ekZ-bPdZY6-bPdZEX-A5FGZ-7484wY-5vBFoW-4TUv9M-4rNS5Z-4rNRZ8-2no5bmL-65R5N2" target="_blank" title="NYC - U.N. Church Center"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/2084/2261126005_6e427d82d5_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" align="left" alt="NYC - U.N. Church Center"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>777 (corner):</b> <b>UN Church Center</b>; built by the United Methodists in 1962, this 12-story building provides offices for UN-related programs of many denominations and non-governmental organizations. (cc photo: Wally Gobetz) <p><b>771:</b> Brunei's mission to the UN. This used to be the Herbert Hoover Building, a 1960 building that housed the Boys and Girls Club of America. <p><b>765:</b> <b>UN Plaza Dental</b> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="43st"></a> <p><b>763:</b> Bhutan's mission to the UN <br><br> </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="340" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center> <a href="43st.htm#1av"> W <===</a> SHCHARANSKY STEPS</h2></center> <p>Named for the Soviet dissident (now an <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2016-02-04/ty-article/.premium/israels-leaders-are-in-denial/0000017f-e0a8-df7c-a5ff-e2fa4c750000" target="_blank" title="Haaretz"> anti-Palestinian</a> Israeli politician) Natan Sharansky, these steps lead up to Tudor City and E. 43rd Street. </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="340" valign="top" bgcolor="66FF66"> <h3>Ralph J. Bunche Park</h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/2261361321/" target="_blank" title="NYC - Ralph J. Bunche Park - Peace Form One Sculpture by wallyg, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2372/2261361321_f5332e99df_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="NYC - Ralph J. Bunche Park - Peace Form One Sculpture by wallyg, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p>This small park commemorates the <a href="http://www.pbs.org/ralphbunche/" target="_blank"> African-American U.N. official</a> who received a Nobel Peace Prize for leading the Palestine Peace Commission in 1947. The tall, silver sculpture here is Daniel LaRue Johnson's <i>Peace Form One</i>. <br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcotner/485457553/" target="_blank" title="Isaiah Quote Near UN by mcotner, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/213/485457553_d6f5718e8c_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Isaiah Quote Near UN by mcotner, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <a name="42st"></a> <p>The Isaiah Wall on the edge of the park, a gift from New York City, bears the hopeful message "They Shall Beat Their Swords Into Plowshares...." </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>U<br>N<br>I<br>T<br>E<br>D<br><br>N<br>A<br>T<br>I<br>O<br>N<br>S<br><br>P<br>L<br>A<br>Z<br>A</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="340" valign="top"> <table cellpadding="10" border="1" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/miguel_discart_vrac_3/46642645441" title="2016-04-06_11-25-20_ILCE-6000_DSC06097"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/7839/46642645441_22ee113273_n.jpg" width="320" height="180" alt="2016-04-06_11-25-20_ILCE-6000_DSC06097"/></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p>The flags of the U.N. members fly along U.N. Plaza in alpha-betical order; the flag of Afghanistan is at the corner of 48th Street. (cc photo: Miguel Discart) <h2>United Nations Headquarters</h2> <p>This land, formerly used by slaughterhouses, gas works and the like, was going to be developed by William Zeckendorf into a futuristic housing/retail complex called X-City. When that fell through, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. gave the UN the money to buy it for its headquarters, to spare New York the embarrassment of having the world organization base itself in Philadelphia instead. The land is now considered international territory, not part of the United States. <p>Construction began in 1947, following the design of an international architectural committee, with Switzerland's Le Corbusier probably the most famous and influential member. <h3>North Garden</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/un_photo/3312372686/in/photolist-63GLZU-28C89Lw-28C89bJ-eaxBCi-21UChNY-ZLdJNg-ZFrwzb-81JzpW-81JzLb-2mdkPKA-CnDhMM-81JAH3-81EsMc-GGgzQp-21W273J-2jPV3p-81JCL1-8367w1-81FtLe-2n1cZqF-2n1fXR4-582agQ-81FrFK-49HGS-2ku6iEc-81JA6w-8369Jd-R3U1gy-RrzbnM-Rrzhc2-89vzVD-83zxqq-G7ssZ4-GdiPB2-wPmXXt-Gb21Eb-GdiPzZ-aQ6P1p-G59xpW-2pUAdW-oxK3Hk-ousjEq-8G7ixf-oeJuZT-aQ6EkX-aQ6Uzr-aQ6GLv-Gb21A3-Fi3uFH-G59xm9" target="_blank" title=""The Sleeping Elephant""><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/3550/3312372686_6923c4ba1d_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" align="right" alt=""The Sleeping Elephant""></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <b><i>The Sleeping Elephant</i></b></a>, by Bulgarian-born artist Mihail and donated to the UN by Kenya, Namibia and Nepal, has attracted more than its share of controversy. The bronze, based on a cast of a tranquilized wild bull elephant, made <a href="http://www.politechbot.com/p-00072.html" target="_blank"> UN officials squeamish</a> because of the animal's anatomically correct erection; some strategically planted shrubbery was added for modesty. Model Cheryl Teigs, who volunteered to be a test subject for the casting process, has <a href="http://www.ncac.org/artlaw/op-sim.html" target="_blank"> been in court</a> with Mihail over the product of the experiment. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lugri/2333619902/" target="_blank" title="Saint George and the Dragon by Catching Flies, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2268/2333619902_5f280252b4_m.jpg" width="240" height="204" alt="Saint George and the Dragon by Catching Flies, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="http://www.blueofthesky.com/publicart/works/goodandevil.htm" target="_blank"> <i><b>Good Defeats Evil</b></i></a>, by Georgian sculptor Zurab Tsereteli, depicts St. George killing the dragon; the dragon was created from two actual dismantled nuclear missiles, US and Soviet. It was donated by the Soviet Union in 1990. <p> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/squeakymarmot/216672890/" target="_blank" title="Image"> <i><b>Let Us Beat Our Swords Into Plowshares</b></i></a>, by Evgeny Buchetich, was also given to the UN by the Soviet Union, in 1959. <h3>Visitors Plaza</h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/francois/35355340/" target="_blank" title="United Nations Sphere by Fran鏾is @ Edito.qc.ca, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/21/35355340_77ebccc241_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="United Nations Sphere by Fran鏾is @ Edito.qc.ca, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p>In front of the UN entrance is Arnoldo Pomodoro's <i>Sphere Within a Sphere</i>, a reflective sculpture. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br> <br><br><br> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/righthererightnow/2499653911/" target="_blank" title="Karl Fredrik Reuterswar by Cam in Van, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2189/2499653911_0feea9b04a_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Karl Fredrik Reuterswar by Cam in Van, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> The gun tied in a knot is <i>Non-Violence</i>, a 1988 gift from Luxembourg by sculptor Karl Fredrik Reutersward. <br><br> <h3>General Assembly Building</h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mhawkins/192590070/" target="_blank" title="by mhawkins, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/51/192590070_0c5137afea_m.jpg" width="240" height="163" alt="by mhawkins, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> The lobby of this building contains a stained glass window by Marc Chagall, as well as a Foucault pendulum, donated by the Netherlands, demonstrating the rotation of the Earth. The General Assembly Hall, where Nikita Kruschev banged his shoe on the table in 1960, seats 1,800. <h3>Conference Building</h3> Hidden away behind more prominent buildings, this is where the real power at the UN, the Security Council, meets, in a chamber donated by Norway. <p>Northwest of the Secretariat Building is the <b>Japanese Peace Bell</b>, cast out of coins collected by children in 60 countries. It is rung twice a year, on the first day of spring and on International Peace Day (September 21). <h3>Secretariat Building</h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecadman/74266867/" target="_blank" title="The United Nations Building by stevecadman, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/38/74266867_a1289e5e5c_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="The United Nations Building by stevecadman, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> Built in 1952, 544 feet high and only 72 feet thick, this was the first major example of the International Style built in New York. <p>The 21-foot-tall bronze oblong with the hole in it is <a href="http://www.yhgfl.net/pages/viewpage.asp?uniqid=229" target="_blank"> <i>Single Form</i></a>, by Barbara Hepworth, created in 1964 as a memorial to <a href="http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1961/hammarskjold-bio.html" target="_blank">Dag Hammarskjold</a>, the two-term UN secretary general. Hammarskjold died in a plane crash in 1961 while on a peace mission to the Congo. Nearby is Henry Moore's <i>Reclining Figure: Hand</i>. <h3>Dag Hammarskjold Library</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/152456526/in/photolist-eto1N-2kLxr5q-2kLBT2g-ac6coN-2kLBjc3-2kLBvf4-2kLBvgm-2kLBKZa-2kLxjwf-2kLB91B-2kLB6jy-2kLxf8f-2kLBvh3-2kLxJqs-2kLBNNB-2kLB9HH-2kLB9Hh-2kLAQ8X-63GLjw-63CwDn-63CwHB-2kLxbmT-2kLB93v-2kLBd6p-2kLwVgs-2kLBurB-2kLBhc6-2kLAQ7E-b8vwXv-tCNwbj-2kLButW-2kLB1TV-2kLBXvS-2kLBt4F-2kLBja9-2kLxJt8-2kLBvgB-2kLxJs1-2kLxJsr-2kLBXth-2kLxGc4-2kLBt3Z-gb4ign-gb4WSc-gb4zrE-gb4wno-2kLBt4q-2kLxGak-2kLxGaL-2kLBt33" target="_blank" title="NYC: United Nations Headquarters"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/52/152456526_70ab47a928_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" align="right" alt="NYC: United Nations Headquarters"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script>An expansion of the original plan built in 1963, it was a gift from the Ford Foundation and is mainly intended for the use of UN officials. (cc photo: Wally Gobetz) <p>The flag of Zimbabwe, the last member nation in alphabetical order, flies at the corner of 42nd Street. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="820" valign="top"> <br> <h2><center> <a href="42st.htm#1av"> W <===</a>             EAST 42ND STREET             <a href="42st.htm#1av"> ===> E</a> <p><i>The boundary of Turtle Bay and Murray Hill</i> </center></h2> </td></tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>West:</h3> <h2>Tudor City</h2> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/2263559649/" target="_blank" title="NYC - Tudor City: Prospect Towers by wallyg, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2161/2263559649_230013bc44_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="NYC - Tudor City: Prospect Towers by wallyg, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p>A self-contained development, built in 1925-28 by the Fred F. French Company, in the half-timbered style of Ye Olde England. Few of the windows face east because in those days there were mostly slaughterhouses and glue factories where the U.N. is now. <p>The area used to be called Dutch Hill, where "one can hardly enter a shanty where is a sober family," according to an 1872 account. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/2264349352/" target="_blank" title="NYC - Tudor City: Tudor Tower by wallyg, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2171/2264349352_ed0cec7a98_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="NYC - Tudor City: Tudor Tower by wallyg, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <a name="41st"></a> <p><b>Block (25 Tudor Place):</b> Tudor City's <b>Tudor Tower</b>. Tom Hanks lived here in <i>Splash</i>. In the mid-1800s, gang leader John Corcoran aka "Paddy" aka "Genteel Jamie" had a hideout around here known as Corcoran's Roost, from which his Rag Gang terrorized the neighborhood. </td> </td></tr></table> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table cellpadding="10" border="1" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="66FF66"> <h3>East:</h3> <h3>Robert Moses Playground</h3> <p> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses" target="_blank"> Moses</a>, despite never being elected to any office, did more to reshape New York City than perhaps any other person--for better and for worse. Among his many projects were Shea Stadium, Lincoln Center, the BQE, the Cross-Bronx Expressway, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge and Jones Beach. Among the things he destroyed or tried to destroy: Penn Station, the South Bronx, Greenwich Village and Shakespeare in the Park. He was involved with the construction of the United Nations Headquarters, which is presumably why his park is here. The large, oddly angled building provides ventilation for the Queens Midtown Tunnel. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="820" valign="top"> <br> <h2><center> <a href="41st.htm#1av"> W <===</a>             EAST 41ST STREET             <a href="41st.htm#1av"> ===> E</a></center></h2> An underpass to bypass UN Plaza begins here. You can't actually turn west on 41st Street here, there being a large dropoff. <p> </td></tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>West:</h3> <a name="40st"></a> <p><b>Block (5 Tudor City Pl):</b> Tudor City's <b>Windsor Tower</b>, noted for its ornate stonework entrance. This building is the target of a bomb plot in the Al Pacino movie <i>Scarface</i>. <br><br> </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center> <a href="40st.htm#1av"> W <===</a>         E 40TH ST</h2></center> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <br> <a name="39st"></a> <p><b>695 (block):</b> One UN Park, a 2018 black-glass tower designed by Richard Meier. <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center> <a href="39st.htm#1av">W <===</a>         E 39TH ST</h2></center> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <a name="38st"></a> <p><b>Block:</b> Schindler Elevator Corporation <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table cellpadding="10" border="1" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>East:</h3> <h3>Con Edison Waterside Station</h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/grufnik/157931113/" target="_blank" title="Demolition of ConEd's Waterside Steam Plant, New York, NY by Grufnik, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/61/157931113_8779e9a2a7_m.jpg" width="240" height="171" alt="Demolition of ConEd's Waterside Steam Plant, New York, NY by Grufnik, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><p><b>700 (block):</b> Con Ed shut down this plant and increased power production at its 14th Street facility. This plant was demolished, to be replaced with high-rise apartment buildings and office towers. There's talk of a riverfront park being built over the FDR Drive. <p>The section between 39th and 40th streets was actually quite handsome— a classic old red-brick factory building. It's highly unlikely that what they replace it with will be more attractive. <p>The middle section, built more recently, was admittedly kind of bland. <p>The section of the plant by the corner of 38th Street was kind of cool again. Bore the inscription "NY Edison"— a reminder that the electric company was founded by the same guy who invented the lightbulb etc. <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="820" valign="top"> <br> <h2><center> <a href="38st.htm#1av"> W <===</a>             EAST 38TH STREET             <a href="38st.htm#1av"> ===> E</a></center></h2> </td></tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobcatnorth/399385467/" target="_blank" title="The Corinthian by Bobcatnorth, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/135/399385467_d03ef8154b_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="The Corinthian by Bobcatnorth, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>645:</b> <b>The Corinthian</b>, 1987 luxury apartment building with distinctive fluted bay windows. "Corinthian" is used to mean "luxurious" because Corinth was the party town of ancient Greece— noted as the home of Aphrodite's sacred prostitutes. <p>The fountain in front of the building is called Pierene— named for the fountain in Corinth where the flying horse Pegasus was captured. <br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <p><b>660:</b> This office building was originally the <b>Kips Bay Brewing Company</b>'s brewery. NYU Medical Center and other healthcare practices have offices here. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="37st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="820" valign="top"> <br> <h2><center> <a href="37st.htm#1av"> W <===</a>             EAST 37TH STREET             <a href="37st.htm#1av"> ===> E</a></center></h2> </td></tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <h2><a href="http://www.nycroads.com/crossings/queens-midtown/" target="_blank"> Queens Midtown Tunnel</a></h2> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/halonfury/1316475412/" target="_blank" title="Queens Midtown Tunnel by terraplanner, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1145/1316475412_0b14e8a56b_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Queens Midtown Tunnel by terraplanner, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p>Opened in 1940 to relieve congestion on the East River bridges. Ole Singstad, who earlier dug the Holland Tunnel <a name="36st"></a> and later started work on the Brooklyn-Battery, was the chief engineer. FDR broke ground on the project in 1936. <p>The entrance to the tunnel is the western end of the Long Island Expressway. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <p><b>630:</b> <b>Manhattan Place</b>. This 1984 apartment building is situated at an angle, creating a triangular public plaza. On the ground floor is Karabelas Food Market & Cafe. <br><br><br><br><br> <br> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lawrence_chernin/2900109597/" target="_blank" title="Fountain at 1st ave and 36st, Manhattan by lawrence's lenses, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3136/2900109597_ee18d2125e_m.jpg" width="240" height="161" alt="Fountain at 1st ave and 36st, Manhattan by lawrence's lenses, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="820" valign="top"> <br> <h2><center> <a href="36st.htm#1av"> W <===</a>             EAST 36TH STREET             <a href="36st.htm#1av"> ===> E</a></center></h2> </td></tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="66FF66"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <h3>St. Vartan's Park</h3> <p>Sadly enough, this out-of-the-way, one-square-block piece of green, bisected by the Queens Midtown Tunnel entrance road, is the only real park in Manhattan's 30s. Opened in 1904 as <a name="35st"></a> St. Gabriel's Park, it was renamed in 1978 for the Armenian cathedral on 2nd Avenue. Vartan was a general who fought against Persians in Albania who were trying to force the Armenians to convert to Zoroastrianism. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <p><b>616 (block):</b> This former Con Ed plant is slated for demolition and redevelopment as luxury condos. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="820" valign="top"> <br> <h2><center> <a href="35st.htm#1av"> W <===</a>             EAST 35TH STREET             <a href="35st.htm#1av"> ===> E</a></center></h2> </td></tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <a name="34st"></a> <p><b>Corner (350 E 35th):</b> <a href="http://www.china-un.ch/eng/index.html" target="_blank"> Permanent Mission of the People's Republic of China to the UN <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3>  <p><b>Block (401 E. 34th):</b> <b>Rivergate</b>, a U-shaped luxury apartment building with a three-story atrium featuring a waterfall and ponds filled with koi. <p>There used to be a Coca-Cola bottling plant on this block, where a reader recalls getting free soda on hot summer days. <br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="820" > <br> <h2><center> <a href="34st.htm#1av"> W <===</a>             EAST 34TH STREET             <a href="34st.htm#1av"> ===> E</a> <p><i>The boundary of Murray Hill and Kips Bay</i> </center></h2> <p> Between 34th and 30th streets, the avenue has the honorary name <a href="http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/html/96/sp680-96.html" target="_blank"> "Samuel D. Leidesdorf Way,"</a> after the accounting tycoon and philanthropist who helped create the NYU Medical Center. <p> </td></tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>West:</h3> <a name="33st"></a> <p><b>593 (corner):</b> <b>Kips Bay Delicatessen</b> <p><b>591:</b> <b>Golden Dragon #1</b> <p><b>587:</b> <b>Bagels & Cafe</b> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>577 (corner):</b> <b>NYU Child Study Center</b> </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center> <a href="33st.htm#1av">W <===</a>     E 33RD ST</h2></center> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <p><b>545:</b> <b>Greenberg Hall</b> <p>Residences for NYU's med school. <br><br><br><br> <h3>Kips Bay Plaza</h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/roboppy/76482384/" target="_blank" title="lots of windows by roboppy, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/6/76482384_c08368bd1a_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="lots of windows by roboppy, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p>This 21-story exposed-concrete slab was built in 1960 to an I.M. Pei design. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table cellpadding="10" border="1" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>East:</h3> <h2><a href="http://www.nyumedicalcenter.org/nyuth/nyumc.jsp" target="_blank"> NYU Medical Center</a></h2> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeshlabotnik/2325433695/" target="_blank" title="NYU Medical Center by Joe Shlabotnik, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2174/2325433695_20da11f8b7_m.jpg" width="161" height="240" alt="NYU Medical Center by Joe Shlabotnik, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p>Built from 1950 to 1977 to a Skidmore Owings & Merrill design. <p><b> Corner (400 E 34th):</b> <a href="http://www.ruskinstitute.org/ri/rusk/homepage_rusk.jsp" target="_blank"> Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine</a>; part of the NYU Medical Center, it's named for Dr. Howard Rusk, who pioneered medical rehabilitation treating injured airmen during World War II. <p><b>560:</b> NYU's Tisch Hospital. Lawrence Tisch, the media mogul who funded it, ended up dying here, November 15, 2003. My daughter, Eden Jean Jackson Naureckas, was born here February 24, 2004. <p><b>540:</b> NYU's <a href="http://saturn.med.nyu.edu/" target="_blank"> Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine</a> <p>Schwartz Health Care Center (Co-op Care) <h3>The Morgue</h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/2937257301/" target="_blank" title="The Morgue by edenpictures, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3281/2937257301_0fd47c74ae_m.jpg" width="240" height="159" alt="The Morgue by edenpictures, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <a name="30st"></a> <p><b>520 (corner):</b> Offices of the New York Medical Examiner. John Lennon, Andy Warhol and the Son of Sam victims all came here after their deaths. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="820" valign="top"> <br> <h2><center><a href="30st.htm#1av">W <===</a>             EAST 30TH STREET             <a href="30st.htm#1av">===> E</a></center></h2> </td></tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="29st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <h3>Bellevue Men's Shelter</h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/2938108770/" target="_blank" title="Bellevue Men's Shelter by edenpictures, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3003/2938108770_76ebe22ca9_m.jpg" width="159" height="240" alt="Bellevue Men's Shelter by edenpictures, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>Block 9400 E 30th):</b> Also known as the 30th Street Shelter, this Victorian pile houses elderly and mentally ill homeless men. <br> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="820" valign="top"> <br> <h2><center><a href="29st.htm#1av">W <===</a>             EAST 29TH STREET             <a href="29st.htm#1av">===> E</a></center></h2> </td></tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>491 (corner):</b> <b>East Bay Diner & Cafe</b> <br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="28st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center> <a href="28st.htm#1av">W <===</a>         E 28TH ST</h2></center> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <br><br> <a name="27st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center> <a href="27st.htm#1av">W <===</a>         E 27TH ST</h2></center> Closed to vehicle traffic. <p> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/2938110096/" target="_blank" title="Sentinel by edenpictures, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3292/2938110096_1622b4e05e_m.jpg" width="159" height="240" alt="Sentinel by edenpictures, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p>Theodore Roszak's 1969 statue <i>Sentinel</i> honors ''those intrepid men and women who dedicate themselves to science and humanity.'' <h3>Public Health Laboratories</h3> <p><b>455 (block):</b> A division of the NYC Department of Health; houses the <a href="http://www.adarc.org/" target="_blank"> <b>Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center</b></a>, which played a key role in developing the combination drug therapy that greatly reduced the death rate from HIV. In 1996, Dr. David Ho, the center's director, was named <i>Time</i>'s person of the year. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table cellpadding="10" border="1" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>East:</h3> <h3><a href="http://www.nyc.gov/html/acs/html/whatwedo/newchildcenter_loc.html" target="_blank"> Children's Center</a></h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/2938109254/" target="_blank" title="Children's Center by edenpictures, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3042/2938109254_1104917fb6_m.jpg" width="159" height="240" alt="Children's Center by edenpictures, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>492 (corner):</b> A shelter for children and teens run by the city's Administration for Children's Services. The building, which is quite striking, is a McKim, Mead and White design added to the Bellevue complex from 1907-12. It formerly served as the hospital's morgue, but it sounds like ACS has gone out of its way to make it hospitable. <br><br> <h2><a href="http://www.med.nyu.edu/Bellevue/" target="_blank"> Bellevue Hospital</a></h2> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/richpompetti/2536426587/" target="_blank" title="My Old Neighborhood by richpompetti, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3221/2536426587_29afffe5ce_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="My Old Neighborhood by richpompetti, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>462:</b> This institution got its start in 1794, when the city needed a site to treat victims of a yellow fever epidemic far from the city center, they bought the Belle Vue estate of Peter Keteltas, named for its beautiful view of the East River. In 1811 additional land nearby was purchased from the Kip family. <p>Songwriter Stephen Foster, who fatally injured himself in a Bowery flophouse, died here in 1864. Socialist Congressmember Meyer London died here after being struck by a car in 1926. <p>People used to refer to the emergency ward as the Eastman Pavilion because gangster Monk Eastman sent so many people here with his club. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lunchtimemama/97685174/" target="_blank" title="The city that is eating me by lunchtimemama, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/36/97685174_bc355ef4a2_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="The city that is eating me by lunchtimemama, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <a name="26st"></a> <p>It's most famous for its <a href="http://gawker.com/news/a-guide-for-crazies/inside-the-bellevue-mental-hygiene-clinic-318206.php" target="_blank" title="Info"> psychological services</a>; Dr. Norman Jolliffe's study of patients here helped establish the modern concept of <a href="http://www.oralchelation.net/heartdisease/ChapterFive/page5j.htm" target="_blank"> alcoholism</a>. Santa Claus was sent to Bellevue for observation in <i>Miracle on 34th Street</i>, Ray Milland dried out here in <i>The Lost Weekend</i> and Michael Caine was a shrink here in <i>Dressed to Kill</i>. In "For You," Bruce Springsteen sang that "They're waiting for you at Bellevue/With their oxygen masks." </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TBODY><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER><A href="26st.htm#1av">W <===</A>         EAST 26TH STREET         <A href="26st.htm#1av">===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>433 (corner):</b> Built in 1897 as the Bellevue Hospital Medical College; now NYU Med School's Basic Science Building. <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="25st"></a> <br><br><br><br> <p><b>Corner (341 E 25th St):</b> Built for the NYU Medical Center's School of Medicine in 1938. </td> </td></tr></table> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table cellpadding="10" border="1" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>East:</h3> <h3>Hunter College Brookdale Health Science Center</h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/2937259617/" target="_blank" title="Brookdale Health Science Center by edenpictures, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3047/2937259617_23b9b4885b_m.jpg" width="240" height="159" alt="Brookdale Health Science Center by edenpictures, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>Block (435 E 25th St):</b> Includes the <a href="http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/schoolhp/nursing/index.htm" target="_blank"> Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing</a>, the <a href="http://www.brookdale.org/" target="_blank"> Brookdale Center on Aging</a> and the Hunter College <a href="http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/shp/" target="_blank"> School of the Health Professions</a>. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TBODY><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER><A href="25st.htm#1av">W <===</A>         EAST 25TH STREET         <A href="25st.htm#1av">===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>West:</h3> <a name="24st"></a> <h3> <a href="http://www.nyu.edu/dental/" target="_blank"> NYU College of Dentistry</a></h3> <p><b>421 (corner):</b> Weissman Clinical Science Building houses part of the largest dental school in the country. <p><b>Corner (345 E. 24th)</b> NYU's Schwartz Hall of Dental Science </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <a name="23st"></a> <h2><center> <a href="24st.htm#1av">W <===</a>     E 24TH ST</h2></center> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <P><b>Corner (340 E 24th):</b> <a href="http://www.icdrehab.org/" target="_blank">International Center for the Disabled</a>, a rehabilitation center. <h3>East Midtown Plaza Apartments</h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/2938111570/" target="_blank" title="East Midtown Plaza Apartments II by edenpictures, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3183/2938111570_39b57a0219_m.jpg" width="159" height="240" alt="East Midtown Plaza Apartments II by edenpictures, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p>The <i>AIA Guide</i> is very excited about this 1972-74 complex, calling it "an ode to brick." <b>No. 403</b> was the East End Temple-- now moved to 17th Street. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table cellpadding="10" border="1" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>East:</h3> <h3>VA Hospital</h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/denatale/343059994/" target="_blank" title="VA hospital and public baths by Dr.DeNo, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/165/343059994_3cef5b5906_m.jpg" width="240" height="97" alt="VA hospital and public baths by Dr.DeNo, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <b>(423 E 23rd):</b> Technically, this is the <a href="http://www1.va.gov/directory/guide/facility.asp?ID=97&divisionId=ALL" target="_blank"> New York Campus of the VA NY Harbor Healthcare System</a>. It's Manhattan's main hospital for veterans. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/2937260151/" target="_blank" title="Manhattan VA by edenpictures, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3242/2937260151_f4ef05b88c_m.jpg" width="240" height="159" alt="Manhattan VA by edenpictures, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br> <p><b>400 (corner):</b> District 75/Citywide Programs; provides instructional support for students with special needs throughout New York's public school system. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TBODY><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER><A href="23st.htm#1av">W <===</A>         EAST 23RD STREET         <A href="23st.htm#1av">===> E</A> <p><i>The southern boundary of Kips Bay</i> </CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>West:</h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/2937261701/" target="_blank" title="Post Luminaria II by edenpictures, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3136/2937261701_e3e1fe3e76_m.jpg" width="159" height="240" alt="Post Luminaria II by edenpictures, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>385 (corner):</b> <a href="http://www.clarett.com/luminaria/" target="_blank"> Post Luminaria</a>, a 2002 apartment building that appears to have been inspired by <a href="http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/mondrian/mondrian_blue_plane.jpg.html" target="_blank"> Mondrian</a>. <p><b>383:</b> <b>1st Avenue Wines & Spirits</b> has a neat old sign. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="22st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>377 (corner):</b> <b>Lucky Chicken</b>, formerly Chirping Chicken </td> </td></tr></table> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table cellpadding="10" border="1" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>East:</h3> <h2>Peter Cooper Village</h2> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dandeluca/2976087419/" target="_blank" title="stuyvesant-town-from-booklyn by dandeluca, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3048/2976087419_546f534e22_m.jpg" width="240" height="159" alt="stuyvesant-town-from-booklyn by dandeluca, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> Built in the late 1940s by Met Life Insurance Co. as afford- able housing for veterans returning from World War II; now being converted to market-rate (i.e. luxury) apartments. When Met Life <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/nyregion/18stuycnd.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1161144000&en=3ccb82fea4d61ae9&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin" target="_blank" title="Info"> sold it</a> and Stuyvesant Town--a total of 110 apartment buildings--for $5.4 billion in 2006, it was reportedly the biggest real estate transaction in history. The purchaser was Tishman Speyer Properties, a real estate group that owns Rockefeller Center, among other things. <p> <a href="http://www.cooper.edu/engineering/chemechem/general/cooper.html" target=_blank"> Peter Cooper</a> was a 19th Century industrialist who ran the first U.S. railroad (the Tom Thumb), helped lay the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable and invented jello. He founded Cooper Union, a school of art, engineering and architecture where tuition has always been free. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TBODY><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER><A href="22st.htm#1av">W <===</A>     E 22ND ST / PETER COOPER RD     <A href="22st.htm#1av">===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>375 (corner):</b> PB Deli & Grocery <p><b>371:</b> <b>Frank's Trattoria</b> <p><b>367:</b> <b>Vera Cruz Council of the Knights of Columbus</b> <a name="21st"></a> <p><b>361 (corner):</b> There was a bar here from the 1930s until 2005--first as Walter Mac's, later as Freddie's, then as the First Avenue Pub. Served as an unofficial local of the Steamfitters' Union. Now a corporate doughnut franchise. </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center><a href="21st.htm#1av">W <===</a>         E 21ST ST</h2></center> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/warsze/99042894/" target="_blank" title="Ess-A-Bagel by warsze, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/26/99042894_6d2647eff1_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Ess-A-Bagel by warsze, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>359 (corner):</b> <a href="http://www.ess-a-bagel.com/" target=_blank"> <b>Ess-a-Bagel</b></a> ("Eat-a-Bagel"), a contender for the best bagels on the island. Opened in 1976. <a name="20st"></a> <p><b>357:</b> <b>Rose Restaurant</b>, buffalo wings. <p><b>349:</b> Bangkok Express <p><b>347:</b> Tony's House of Pizza <p><b>345 (corner):</b> 345 Produce & Plus </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table cellpadding="10" border="1" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>East:</h3> <h3>Peter Cooper Village</h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rhinomite/95173179/" target="_blank" title="beggars would ride by rhinomite, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/31/95173179_36c7abe4a0_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="beggars would ride by rhinomite, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p>Peter Cooper Village and Stuy- vesant Town were built on the site of the notorious <b>Gashouse District</b>, where fumes from chemical plants kept out all but the poorest immigrants. Home to the Gashouse Gang, one of New York's more fearsome crews--they specialized in robbing other gangs (since there was so little to steal on their own turf). <br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TBODY><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER><A href="20st.htm#1av">W <===</A>         EAST 20TH STREET         <A href="20st.htm#1av">===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>343 (corner):</b> <b>Season's Clothing</b> <a name="19st"></a> <p><b>339:</b> <b>Cooper Town Diner</b>, since 1984 <p><b>331:</b> <b>David's Bagels</b> <p><b>329:</b> <b>MJ Armstrong's</b>, a restaurant opened in December 2001 and named after <a href="http://cf1.newsday.infi.net/911/printprofile.cfm?id=1659" target="_blank"> Michael Joseph Armstrong</a>, a Cantor Fitzgerald vice president who was killed in the September 11 attacks. ''You could say you went to a building on 14th Street, and he would know exactly what building it was and what it looked like,'' his fiancee recalled. </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center><a href="19st.htm#1av">W <===</a>         E 19TH ST</h2></center> <p>Police battled mobs at this corner during the 1863 Draft Riots. </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <a name="18st"></a> <p><b>327 (corner):</b> Donna's Deli <p><b>321:</b> Adriatic Pizzeria <p><b>319:</b> K's Gourmet Food & Cheese <p><b>315:</b> One's Fruit & Grocery <p><b>313 (corner):</b> <b>Quigley's</b>, a restaurant/sports bar, formerly the Stuyvesant Town Cafe </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center><a href="18st.htm#1av">W <===</a>         E 18TH ST</h2></center> <a name="17st"></a> U.S. Rep. <a href="http://reds.linefeed.org/bios/london.html" target="_blank"> Meyer London</a>, a Socialist, run over at this corner, June 6, 1926. </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <p><b>311 (corner):</b> Karpas Health Information Center; connected to the hospital Beth Israel ("House of Israel") <p><b>Corner (353 E 17th):</b> <b>Gilman Hall</b>, housing for Beth Israel, built 1969. This was the first home of writer <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0738826766/103-8716965-1071826?v=glance" target="_blank">Teresa Gardstein</a>. </td></tr></table> <a name="16st"></a> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center><a href="17st.htm#1av">W <===</a>         E 17TH ST</h2></center> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>Beth Israel Medical Center</h3> <p>The university hospital for the Manhattan campus of the <a href="http://www.aecom.yu.edu/home/overview2_and_history.htm" target="_blank"> Albert Einstein College of Medicine</a>. <p><b>295 (corner):</b> The tall building is Beth Israel's Linsky Pavilion. </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center><a href="16st.htm#1av">W <===</a>         E 16TH ST</h2></center> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <p><b>273:</b> Ambrosia Diner <p><b>265:</b> No. 1 Restaurant (Chinese take-out) <a name="15st"></a> <p><b>263:</b> <b>La Bagel</b>, dairy restaurant. (Kosher restaurants can generally serve either milk or meat, not both.) <p><b>261:</b> Murray's Falafel & Grill-- <a href="http://www.kashrut.com/articles/glatt/" target="_blank"> glatt kosher</a>; Johnny's Pizza & Pasta. <a name="14st"></a> <p><b>259 (corner):</b> Orchid Garden was Pan Pangea, veggie burger joint; before that Far East Oriental Restaurant. </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center><a href="15st.htm#1av">W <===</a>         E 15TH ST</h2></center> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <p><b>239-241:</b> Salt & Pepper was Darbar East Haute Indian Cuisine. Cornice says "G. Wilkens." <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/2938113508/" target="_blank" title="Papaya Dog by edenpictures, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3194/2938113508_6580938d70_m.jpg" width="159" height="240" alt="Papaya Dog by edenpictures, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>Corner:</b> <b>Papaya Dog</b> (formerly 14th Street Papaya) was a Gray's Papaya imitator, offering cheap, tasty hot dogs and frothy tropical fruit drinks. Sandra Bullock and Rihanna ate hot dogs here in <i>Ocean's Eight</i>. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table cellpadding="10" border="1" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>East:</h3> <p><h2>Stuyvesant Town</h2> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/warsze/463539008/" target="_blank" title="Stuyvesant Town by warsze, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/190/463539008_5a63553784_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Stuyvesant Town by warsze, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p>Like Peter Cooper Village, built in the late 1940s by Met Life Insurance Co. as housing for returning World War II vets; it was slightly more affordable than its uptown neighbor. Now being converted to luxury condos. To build these highrises, Met Life leveled the notorious Gashouse District— whose chemical fumes made it one of Manhattan's least desirable neighborhoods. <p>The development is named for <a href="http://www.peterstuyvesant.org/" target="_blank"> Peter Stuyvesant</a>, New Amsterdam's one-legged governor, who owned most of the land in this neighborhood. Autocratic, anti-democratic and intolerant, he was something of a 17th Century Giuliani. <p><b>346 (corner):</b> Emerald Too, greeting cards, etc. <br><br><br> <p><b>338:</b> The Villager is a concierge for Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village—not to be confused with the local paper of the same name. <br><br> <p><b>332:</b> Peter Cooper Village/Stuyvesant Town leasing office <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b><i>310</i>:</b> The Gramercy Theatre (not to be confused with the one on 23rd Street) was once here. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>298:</b> Elm Drugs & Wellness Center; a good drug store. <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>288:</b> The Linen Depot <br><br> <p><b>284:</b> <b>Stuyvesant Camera</b> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/1400161460/" target="_blank" title="Fountain by edenpictures, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1127/1400161460_47ee91b244_m.jpg" width="240" height="159" alt="Fountain by edenpictures, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <p>Earlier the mansion called Petersfield could be found here, less than one block east of 1st Avenue between 15th and 16th streets. It was the home of Petrus Stuyvesant, a descendant of Peter. <br><br><br><br><br> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marianne_oleary/2520167380/" target="_blank" title="Stuyvesant Town, May 2008 by Marianne O'Leary, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3222/2520167380_019b49b62f_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Stuyvesant Town, May 2008 by Marianne O'Leary, on Flickr" /></a> <p><b>1ST AVENUE STATION:</b> L to <a href="14st.htm#3av">3rd Avenue</a> <p>This subway stop is chiefly responsible for making Williamsburg a hip neighborhood— people could live there and still get to the East Village easily. Now the East Village is cool because it's only one stop away from Williamsburg. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> </td></tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TBODY><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER><A href="14st.htm#1av">W <===</A>         EAST 14TH STREET         <A href="14st.htm#1av">===> E</A> <br><i>The northern boundary of the East Village.</i> </CENTER></H2> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/su1droot/21709494/" target="_blank" title="1st ave and 14th Street by su1droot, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/16/21709494_80a3efdac7_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="1st ave and 14th Street by su1droot, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>237 (corner):</b> Was 1st Federal Savings & Loan; later one of the last Love Stores in New York, a local drug store chain. The offices of City Council member <a href="http://www.speak-truth.com/bio/lopez_margarita.html" target="_blank"> Margarita Lopez</a> were in this building. <p><b>233:</b> <b>Big Arc Chicken</b>, Middle Eastern barbecue, popular with cabbies. <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/5133809838/in/photolist-8PE7NJ" target="_blank" title="Vinny Vincenz Mural"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/1212/5133809838_34a29c53cf_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="left" alt="Vinny Vincenz Mural"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p><b>231:</b> <b>Vinny Vincenz Pizza</b> <p><b>229:</b> Was Old Fashioned Donuts, driven out of business by the oppressive corporate doughnut chain. Now <b>Petit Chou</b>, great French bakery. <p><b>227:</b> Was Blue Velvet, fancy Vietnamese <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/vansgirl12/2081983389/" target="_blank" title="1st ave by vansgirl12, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2185/2081983389_13b5785ba0_m.jpg" width="240" height="161" alt="1st ave by vansgirl12, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>225:</b> Crab du Jour was the designer discount shop <a href="https://evgrieve.com/2018/01/gabays-outlet-has-closed-on-avenue-a.html" target="_blank" title="EV Grieve"> Gabay's</a> from 1970 to 2014. <p><b>223:</b> <b>Mee Noodle Shop</b> was Allen Ginsberg抯 favorite Chinese (though it was down the block then). There use to be a bakery here variously known an Build a Green Bakery, Birdbath, Prince of Peace Bakery and Prince Bakery. <p><b>221:</b> Was <b>Senor Pollo</b> ("Mister Chicken"), Peruvian, before that Rancho El Girasol ("Sunflower Ranch"), Mexican featuring mariachis. Was Prince Fruit & Vegetable. <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51257771940/in/photolist-2nm4rRp-2n1g19r-2mhXm36-2m89MEa-2m6oanf-2m6o97e-2m6ttUp-2m6rXFK-2m6ttNC-2m5rTos-2kVZMjY-2kVY8t9-2kRRYLr-2jdwkoB-2jaK2Z1-2j192kx-2hppVPz-22mmQFF-JLUrVH-22mmQn4-Un51Pk-yaGGsN-dpxDjb-8zGGWU" target="_blank" title="Bless the E Vil"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51257771940_c7376a17fc_m.jpg" width="240" height="240" align="left" alt="Bless the E Vil"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>219 (corner):</b> Was Mee Noodle Shop until it closed in 2005 when the building started to collapse. The building is now an interesting vintage/ modern hybrid. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br> <p><b>228:</b> <b>Taverna Kyclades</b>, Greek. Was David's Bagels, where I used to go for Sunday morning bagels. <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>226:</b> <b>Wine on 1st</b>, shop with helpful labels; Kathe's Jewelry, where I got my ring resized once. <p><b>224:</b> <b>The Crossings</b> apartments—I think it includes all the addresses north to the corner. Building dates to 1911 but was modernized at some point. <p><b>222:</b> Veeray da Dhaba,Indian, was Ikura, Japanese <p><b>220:</b> <b>H&W Hardware</b>, founded 1924; seems to have gone out of business c. 2022. <br><br><br><br><br> <br> <a name="13st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/38955445245/in/photolist-22mmQFF-JLUrVH-22mmQn4-2m1ymAW-2gwXa79-2geLpct-2geL7NH-2geLpnJ-2geKRK9-2geKRMP-222QPq7-23H2e1A-TZt9K3-TwbzBc-Sr9uXN-RjXDrq-PmGaAc-FQhPjk-rxiWWa-fHMWHC-mTUYiW-8v3Q2g-StPFyg-T8CoRQ-TwbATk-StPRmc-StPU1F-StPSEz-Sr9xdQ-T8CAmd-Sr9ypY-MeKFw2-oryuEA-prCV2h-prCWr1-fcA9uX-atkdkW-8kTeoK-89SVDY-7xyMvS-6FSYLc-6FX5b7-6FSZga-6FX6B3-6FSGbx-6FSH9T-6FWNtm-6FSFKr-6FWPq9-6FSJkM" title="Space Gorilla Continued"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4618/38955445245_f366688ef2_n.jpg" width="320" height="180" target="_blank" alt="Space Gorilla Continued"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>218 (corner):</b> Was Victor's Marketplace, long-running meat market. The building underwent thorough uglification, but now houses Ichibantei, Japanese noted for its love of Reggae music and cool street art. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="820" valign="top"> <br> <h2><center><a href="13st.htm#1av">W <===</a>         EAST 13TH STREET         <a href="13st.htm#1av">===> E</a></center></h2> </td></tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>217 (corner):</b> Hamptons Market Place, a deli formerly known as Olympic Deli & Grocery, was DiBella Brothers, Italian grocery known for its stuffed artichoke hearts. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/slice/1516829544/" target="_blank" title="Luzzo's Exterior by Adam "Slice" Kuban, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/253/1516829544_b8f8a92667_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="Luzzo's Exterior by Adam "Slice" Kuban, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>211-213:</b> <b>Luzzo's</b> was Zito's East, a charming old place that claimed to make one of the best 50 pizzas in the world. <a name="12st"></a> <p><b>207:</b> <b>Slavic Evangelical Christian Church</b> <p><b>205:</b> Tribeca Pediatrics (a satellite office) was Lugo's Mecca of Hair <p><b>203:</b> <b>Sao Mai</b>, Vietnamese, was Tuba's Shish Kabob, Mideastern; before that Cyclo, Vietnamese with a namesake bicycle rickshaw out front. <p><b>201:</b> <b>Jeepney</b>, Filipino, was Wai? Cafe <p><b>199 (corner):</b> <b>S'Mac</b>, for Sarita's Mac And Cheese. Tasty, and has a community fridge out front. Was <b>Fuji Apple Deli</b> a friendly neighborhood grocery. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <p><b>214 (corner):</b> Koko Sushi was Kumo Sushi; <b>Elvie's Turo-Turo</b>, tasty Filipino fast food <p><b>214B:</b> Tallgrass Burgers <p><b>210:</b> <b>Gena's Grill</b> was National Cafe, a notable Cuban hole in the wall; next door was Lazzat, halal. <p><b>208:</b> Balade, Lebanese, was <a href="http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2008/10/christines.html" target="_blank" title="Vanishing New York"> <b>Christine's</b></a>, Polish diner from 1982-2008. Allen Ginsberg mentioned it in his poem "Charnel Ground." The building is dated 1911. <p><b>204:</b> <b>No Relation</b>, formerly Treasure Trends NYC, vintage and pseudo-vintage clothing <br><br><br><br> <p><b>200:</b> Brodo, broth to go <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/9996612424/" target="_blank" title="1st Avenue & East 12th by edenpictures, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3799/9996612424_1e27b53b50_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="1st Avenue & East 12th by edenpictures, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>198 (corner):</b> <b>Hearth</b>, fancy American; used to be Tappo, another pricey place. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="820" valign="top"> <br> <h2><center><a href="12st.htm#1av">W <===</a>         EAST 12TH STREET         <a href="12st.htm#1av">===> E</a></center></h2> </td></tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <h3>Asher Levy School</h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/2927618619/" target="_blank" title="Asher Levy School by edenpictures, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3235/2927618619_6abb02f443_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Asher Levy School by edenpictures, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>185 (block):</b> P.S. 19 is named for an early Jewish immigrant, a kosher butcher, who won an important victory for religious tolerance when he successfully appealed Peter Stuyvesant's ban on Jews in the New Amsterdam militia. <p>His name is also spelled "Asser Levy," but you can see how grade school kids might find that too entertaining. Art, dance and drama are integral parts of the curriculum here. <br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="11st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <p><b>196 (corner):</b> <b>1st Avenue Gourmet Deli</b> did not make it through the pandemic. <p><b>194:</b> Cafe Sandra <p><b>192:</b> Juice Vitality; Koko Wings, Korean fried chicken. Was <b>Neptun</b>, seafood; before that KK, Polish diner <p><b>190:</b> <b>Trees</b> replaced <b>Brunetta's</b>, an incredibly old little Italian <p><b>188:</b> Uogashi, Japanese restaurant shut down by fire in 2018. Earlier was Mandarin Grill, Filipino. <p><b>186:</b> <b>Handsome Dan's</b>, eclectic candy shop, was closed by the fire that wrecked Uogashi. Previously A-1 Music. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/watz/1207672518/" target="_blank" title="NYC 354 Atomic Wings by watz, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1124/1207672518_0165e09a3e_t.jpg" width="100" height="75" alt="NYC 354 Atomic Wings by watz, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>184:</b> <b>Atomic Wings</b>, which painted over its "Make Wings, Not War" slogan when the war in Afghanistan started. At the same address is <b>Sahara East</b>, Mideast restaurant noted for its backyard and its hookahs. <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/6007886615/in/photolist-2naTJX5-2mGSWnA-2mBNw32-2mw3t5G-2mmQxmy-2mjdHJn-2miuyEL-2mayNXE-2mav8eQ-2m5tpkF-2m4YbV3-2m42vbZ-2kWcYFX-2kVYzHB-2kVSwN9-2jsMDc4-2j7W8xw-2iMT6AL-2iHkPoL-V6LWQQ-c1ZBCC-a9TZnZ-9gYWN4-5sGNND-7iqZyw" target="_blank" title="Madina Masjid"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/6025/6007886615_bb34ab715f_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" align="right" alt="Madina Masjid"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>182 (corner):</b> <b>Madina Masjid Islamic Council of America</b>, one of the few mosques in Downtown Manhattan. It originally served the spiritual needs of the Bengali restaurants that once lined Sixth Street. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="820" valign="top"> <br> <h2><center><a href="11st.htm#1av">W <===</a>         EAST 11TH STREET         <a href="11st.htm#1av">===> E</a></center></h2> </td></tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>177 (corner):</b> Lhasa, Tibetan, was Schnitz, specializing in schnitzel. Before that it was Something Sweet, aka Black Forest Bakery, when this was a mini pastry district. <br><br><br> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/slice/2341238974/" target="_blank" title="Five Roses Pizza by Adam "Slice" Kuban, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2367/2341238974_3d55ba6b39_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Five Roses Pizza by Adam "Slice" Kuban, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>173:</b> Iggy's Pizza was <a href="http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2008/11/five-roses-pizza.html" target="_blank" title="Vanishing New York"> <b>Five Roses Pizza</b></a>, neighborhood pizzeria from <a href="http://evgrieve.com/2008/12/former-five-roses-is-for-rent-memories.html" target="_blank" title="EV Grieve"> 1964</a> to <a href="http://huntergatherernyc.com/2008/12/five-roses-krystyna-says-ill-be-back/" target="_blank" title="Hunter Gatherer NYC"> 2008</a>. <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:3ifrxqlgld0e~T1" target="_blank" title="AMG"> Handsome Dick Manitoba</a> of The Dictators lived upstairs here for 18 years. <h3>Momofuko Noodle Bar</h3> <p><b>171:</b> The flagship of David Chang's chain of raved-about Asian restaurants. Named—like the Elvis Costello album of the same name—for Momofuko Ando, the inventor of the instant noodle. Used to be Krystal's Cafe, a Filipino bakery—before that Ferucci's Gourmet Market. In a cast-iron building atypical of the neighborhood. <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>167:</b> Tatsu ramen was Sandobe Sushi, before that the retro Bendix Diner. <p><b>165:</b> <b>Commodities</b> natural food store <br><br><br><br><br> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/remydwd/2422353731/" target="_blank" title="Momofuku Ko by Dan Dickinson, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2179/2422353731_f0c746d76b_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Momofuku Ko by Dan Dickinson, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br> <p><b>163 (corner):</b> <a href="http://www.gourmet.com/restaurants/2008/03/firsttaste_momofukuko" target="_blank" title="Review"> <b>Momofuku Ko</b></a> —"Child of Momofuku" — only takes reservations online, and the 12 seats are booked within seconds every day at Chang's hearty Japanese. Used to be a wrap place. <p><b>Taralluci e Vino</b>'s name means "cookies and wine," but sells sandwiches and espresso—go figure. Formerly Sassy's Sliders, tasty White Castle–like burgers. Upstairs used to be Princess Pamela's, a secret apartment/restaurant "where you could eat great homecooking, served by the hostess often wearing scuffy slippers." </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <p><b>180 (corner):</b> Was <a href=https://evgrieve.com/2020/01/the-legal-battle-behind-closing-of.html" target="_blank" title="EV Grieve"> Eleven Consignment Boutique</a>, a high-end clothing resale shop that closed suddenly in 2020; before that it was Village Fabrics. The building dates to 1872. <p><b>178:</b> <b>REVMPD</b>, thrift store. This used to be the offices of Bella Tile, landlord to much of the immediate neighborhood. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/moriza/521102620/" target="_blank" title="Orange flowers and lined tiles by moriza, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/197/521102620_c983969c80_m.jpg" width="240" height="161" alt="Orange flowers and lined tiles by moriza, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>176:</b> <b>Black Seed</b>, bagels and coffee, was DeRobertis Pastry Shoppe, Italian pas- tries since 1904; was a more authentic Old New York experience than Veniero's. Handsome Jack Giordano, a Gambino family member, ran a bookmaking operation out of there in the late 1980s; the FBI said they had "bugs in everything but the cannolis and the espresso machine." Tom Cruise carries a box from DeRobertis in <i>Eyes Wide Shut</i>. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreyputman/18477004/" target="_blank" title="'The Spoon' at Xunta by JeffreyPutman, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/14/18477004_8a365f5cc1_t.jpg" width="100" height="75" alt="'The Spoon' at Xunta by JeffreyPutman, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>174:</b> <b>Xunta</b>, Galician tapas, eaten on barrels. Formerly Pete's Spice. Upstairs is <b>First Flight Music</b>. <p><b>172:</b> <b>Fourth World House</b>, progressive daycare <p><b>170:</b> This building has a faded ad for corsets (!) on its southern wall. <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/51428951845/in/photolist-2n9Yg9y-2mmAPCi-dTw5y9/" target="_blank" title="Formerly Lanza's"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51428951845_317a422961_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="right" alt="Formerly Lanza's"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>168:</b> <b>Joe & Pat's</b> is the East Village outpost of a Staten Island pizza institution, founded in 1960 by Giuseppe and Pasquale Pappalardo, two brothers from Naples. They took over the space of <b>Lanza's</b>, old-school Italian since 1907, which was the favorite restaurant of Gambino underboss Joe "Piney" Armone, who died in prison in 1992. <p><b>166:</b> <b>Ferns</b>, American, was La Zarza, Spanish/Argentine. Earlier was a club called One66, Izzy Bar. <br><br> <a name="10st"></a> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/52055762239/in/photolist-2niZow4-2niSP9T-2m6Ea5k-2m6MFVB-2m6Ea5F-2jvBX77-2i523Ek-YceBSA/" target="_blank" title="First Avenue Crosswalk"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52055762239_abbc86e30b_n.jpg" width="320" height="180" alt="First Avenue Crosswalk"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p><b>Corner (245 E. 10th):</b> <b>Beron Beron</b>, Japanese, was <a href="https://evgrieve.com/2014/01/claim-sapporo-east-has-closed-for-good.html" target="_blank" title="EV Grieve"> <b>Sapporo East</b></a>, one of the first Japanese restaurants in the neighborhood, from 1983-2013. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="820" valign="top"> <br> <h2><center><a href="10st.htm#1av">W <===</a>         EAST 10TH STREET         <a href="10st.htm#1av">===> E</a></center></h2> McLaughlin's Bear Pit, where one could bet on fights between dogs and bears, was located at this intersection in the 1860s. <p> </td></tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/2915948290/" target="_blank" title="159 First Avenue by edenpictures, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3271/2915948290_f67c376aec_m.jpg" width="159" height="240" alt="159 First Avenue by edenpictures, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>Corner (242 E 10th St):</b> Was NW3, a cool bar named for London's hip zip code. Now called <b>Company</b>. Until the early 1980s, Dee Dee Ramone lived in apartment 21 upstairs. <br><br><br><br><br> <br> <p><b>157:</b> <b>Stickett Inn</b>, intimate cocktail bar <h3> <a href="http://www.theaterforthenewcity.net/" target="_blank" title="Home"> Theater for the New City</a></h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/30227626424/in/photolist-Y1ARZB-YD7v5G-YXEcNG-Y1B6ct-Y1B3mP-BWebZd-WyQ31Q-VGP5Bu-UHZ8yV-VW2PPu-UPr3rr-TMkKci-ULvPgY-TJo7Zb-TMm9wp-TJotih-UP8gFD-UqKZdw-TJoBKY-TJEQDS-E2pWs2-drM6aL-5rEZQw-TMmakt-TJoCvL-TJouNG-UP8qzv-TJoueA-TJEPHd-Ur378S-V29uj4-ULNq9S-ULNpi3-ULNrHU-UXBKZo-N3NnUH-N47udQ-N3Nwdg-NXJyvA-NPPe7U-NT47Lv-aovED6-9qYJhq-8P5nNx-8P8ujQ-8P8uYL-8P5ouZ-8P5pag-5i7ABp-3jejMP" target="_blank" title="Voting Line VIII"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/5520/30227626424_77303e9ce0_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="left" alt="Voting Line VIII"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>155:</b> A progressive, experi- mental playhouse founded in 1971, and named for a remark by Mayor John Lindsay about building a new city for all. Vin Diesel started his acting career with a TNC play when he was 7 years old; Tim Robbins starred in the theater's production of <i>The Little Prince</i>. Sam Shepard won a Pulitzer for TNC's <i>The Buried Child</i>. It moved to this location in 1984, which used to be the <b>First Avenue Retail Market</b>, built by Mayor LaGuardia as a way to get pushcarts off the streets. <p>Serves as a neighborhood polling place and used to house anarchist May Day Books, which made for an interesting combination. The city, which controlled the air rights, forced the building of a luxury condo above the theater, known as the New Theatre Building; though very 21st Century-looking, it seems to have made some effort to echo the surrounding tenements. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jhernandez/452593550/" target="_blank" title="Coyote Ugly NY VII by makkaaa, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/206/452593550_589ad5abc3_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Coyote Ugly NY VII by makkaaa, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>153:</b> Was <b>Coyote Ugly</b>, bar that the movie was based on, sort of. <p><b>149:</b> This small spot has had many tenants in recent years, including This Little Piggy roast beef, Birdies ("Grandma's chicken for the people") and Flor's Kitchen, Venezuelan. It's currently <b>Rowdy Rooster</b>, very tasty Indian fried chicken. A red-tailed hawk once flew in here. <p><b>147 (corner):</b> Was The Bean, local coffee chain; before that Angelica's Herbs. Upstairs is the East Village Hotel. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/52057926354/in/photolist-2njbtQo-2k8MirB-2jQeNMy-cDQgej-aZpfPi-7oReqh" title="E 10th Street Finest Deli"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52057926354_b93a9609e4_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="right" alt="E 10th Street Finest Deli"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>162 (corner):</b> The deli here was where Dee Dee Ramone used to get his morning coffee after he got his morning heroin. Has been vacant for a while now. <p><b>160:</b> Gizmo Sewing Supply; <b>Sabor a Mexico Taqueria</b> <p><b>158:</b> Was Yu's on First, massage, which replaced Mary's Dairy, ice cream parlor. Before that it was <b>Standard</b>, a stylish and mellow bar that succeeded <b>Downtown Beirut</b>, a classic punk bar featured in <i>After Hours</i>. I fell in love with my wife there. <p><b>156:</b> Hello Banana Vintage is also Amy Van Doran's Modern Love Club, a matchmaking service. Was Diamonds & Oranges</a>, a gallery in a former bodega. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br> <h2><a href="http://www.ps122.org/" target="_blank"> P.S. 122</a></h2> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/4668103430/in/photolist-2jXdhbr-PwwyvF-2k7oPLm-99iMiv-87vfvU/" target="_blank" title="PS 122"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4022/4668103430_76c90c505a_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="right" alt="PS 122"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <a name="9st"></a> <p><b>150 (corner):</b> Public school turned performance space in 1979 for the likes of Spalding Gray, Penny Arcade, Karen Finley, Quentin Crisp, etc. Booting out Children's Liberation, a long-running daycare center, didn't endear them to the neighborhood. <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/50507917421/in/photolist-2k7oPLm-2jXdhbr-PwwyvF-99iMiv-87vfvU" target="_blank" title="Performance Space 122"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50507917421_3dd976b0d3_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="right" alt="Performance Space 122"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p>Ira Gershwin is said to have attended here when it was still a school. The auditorium was featured in the movie <i>Fame</i>. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="820" valign="top"> <br> <h2><center><a href="9st.htm#1av">W <===</a>         EAST 9TH STREET         <a href="9st.htm#1av">===> E</a></center></h2> </td></tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>145 (corner):</b> <b>East Village Pizza</b> has a million followers on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/eastvillagepizza/" target=_blank" title="Instagram"> Instagram</a>. Baji Baji, Chinese, is also at this address. <p>Nicholas Stuyvesant, a descendant of Peter, had a dwelling approximately here called Mansion House. <p><b>143:</b> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexdc/431952003/" target="_blank" title="Image"> <b>Paquitos</b></a>, Mexican <p><b>141:</b> Kikoo Shushi was Ramen Setagaya, first US branch of a Japanese noodle chain. Before the noodle chain, it was (briefly) Gourmet Market Place and 1 Ave Fish Market. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/barbiez/535243858/" target="_blank" title="1st Ave by barbiez, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1151/535243858_bb52706cff_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="1st Ave by barbiez, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>139:</b> Stuffed Ice Cream was Caffe Emilia</b>; Orchard Garden Spa. Has an unusual blue paint job with red and yellow trim— reminds me of Amsterdam. <p><b>137:</b> Drunken Dumpling; Davey's Ice Cream. I miss <b>Tara Thai</b> here—friendly, tasty, affordable...with shadow puppets. <p><b>135:</b> Dan & John's Wings was Shiki Kitchen, sushi restaurant decorated with the chef's paper art. <p><b>Corner (83 St. Marks):</b> <b>Stromboli Pizza</b>, named for a Sicilian volcano. My wife and I were mistaken for employees here once because we were wearing matching T-shirts. Subway shooting suspect Frank James <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/04/16/accused-brooklyn-shooter-frank-james-cried-during-manhunt-pizza-worker/" target="_blank" title="NY Post"> hung out here</a> for half an hour shortly before his arrest. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <p><b>Corner (400 E. 9th):</b> <b>Lime Tree Market</b>, Japanese deli <br><br><br><br> <p><b>140:</b> <b>The Hard Swallow</b> was Cheap Shots, newish dive bar. Was First Avenue Meat Products, one of several butcher shops along this stretch of First Avenue. <p><b>138:</b> <b>East Village Wines</b>, noted for annual palindrome contest. "Dubya won? No way, bud" was one winner. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>136:</b> Village Craft Beer & Smoke. Subway shooting suspect Frank James was arrested here on April 13, 2022, after several members of the public alerted the NYPD that he was hanging out in the neighborhood. <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/37593947991/in/photolist-Zh3NZ6" target="_blank" title="134 First Avenue"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4495/37593947991_2c8cb01303_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="right" alt="134 First Avenue"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <a name="8st"></a> <p><b>134 (corner):</b> <b>Goodnight Sonny</b>, cocktail bar that opened in 2015. The name is what the owner's grandmother used to say to him when he'd start the late shift at the family bar. The space used to be Simone Espresso and Wine Bar. The building dates to 1872. </td></tr></table> </td> </t+r></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="820" valign="top"> <br> <h2><center><a href="8st.htm#1av">W <===</a>         ST MARKS PLACE         <a href="8st.htm#1av">===> E</a></center></h2> </td></tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>131 (corner):</b> <b>Brooklyn Dumpling Shop</b>, Automat-style restaurant opened 2021. Personally it worries me when a Manhattan business invites customers to fantasize that they're in Brooklyn. <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>129:</b> Was <b>Lulu's</b>, bar noted for skeeball <p><b>127:</b> Was Prana Foods, organic, pro-animal rights, anti-genetic manipulation grocery <p><b>125:</b> Nudibranch, foodie restaurant. The name means "sea slug." <p><b>123:</b> Was Organic Grill, which moved to West 3rd Street. <p><b>121:</b> <b>Sticky Fingers Bakery</b> <p><b>119:</b> <b>Dok Suni</b> ("Strong Woman"), Korean <br><br><br><br><br> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dataharvest/2227098143/" target="_blank" title="Tile bar by dataharvest, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2035/2227098143_335af7c258_m.jpg" width="240" height="159" alt="Tile bar by dataharvest, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>115 (cor- ner):</b> Real name is WCOU Radio, but best known as <b>Tile Bar</b>. My first date with my wife was here. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <p><b>132 (corner):</b> <b>The Wild Son</b> cafe, formerly Tribe, before that St. Marks Bar. In the video for "Waiting on a Friend," Mick Jagger and Keith Richards meet the rest of The Rolling Stones here. <p><b>130:</b> <B>Rainbow Records</b> was a hoarder-like trove of music; <b>Homemade Pierogi & Deli Co.</b> made dumplings like my Lithuanian grandmother's. <p><b>128:</b> Noreetuh, Hawaiian, was Kebab Garden, Mideastern with a "flaming" sign. Until 2004 this was <b> <a href="https://greenwichvillageitalian.com/2013/06/22/ode-to-vinnys-la-foccaceria-e-la-vastedde/" target="_blank" title="Greenwich Village Italian"> La Focacceria</a></b>, Sicilian that first opened up the avenue in 1914. <p><b>126:</b> <b>The Grafton</b>, modernist Irish bar named for a Dublin street famous for its cafes and buskers. Opened in 2003 under the name Lunasa, referring to the Celtic holiday of <a href="http://www.celticspirit.org/lughnasadh.htm" target="_blank"> Lughnasa</a>; the name was changed in 2015 because patrons couldn't pronounce the old one. Previously was Galapagos, Ecuadoran restaurant. <p><b>124:</b> East Village Organic, grocery, was <a href="http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2007/07/kurowycky-meats.html" target="_blank" title="Info"> Kurowycky & Son Meat Products</a>, sausage-makers opened in 1955 and closed in 2007. <p><b>122:</b> MaLa Project, spicy Chinese <a name="7st"></a> <p><b>120 1/2:</b> Bubbleology, bubble tea, was International Bar, super-skinny bar that moved down the street. <p><b>120:</b> Raiz, vegan, was Wechsler's Currywurst & Bratwurst, German sausage place, and before that La Casalinga, compact Italian—two restaurants I miss. <p><b>118 (corner):</b> E7 Deli & Cafe </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="820" valign="top"> <br> <h2><center><a href="7st.htm#1av">W <===</a>         EAST 7TH STREET         <a href="7st.htm#1av">===> E</a></center></h2> </td></tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>Corner:</b> Yubu, Korean <p><b>111:</b> Suki, Japanese, was B & M Meat Market. <p><b>109:</b> SenYa, Japanese, was Ginger, neo-sushi <br><br> <p><b>107:</b> Huertas, Basque <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/50852590906/in/photolist-2ktEPAJ" target="_blank" title="Mister Paradise"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50852590906_7911fa2438_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" align="left" alt="Mister Paradise"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>105:</b> <b>Mister Paradise</b>, cocktail bar, was Counter, stylish Cajun vegetarian. <p><b>103:</b> <b>Sidney's Five</b>, American, was Solex, French wine bar; before that <b>Teresa's</b>, charming, affordable Polish diner. <br><br><br><br> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/3798886747/" target="_blank" title="Mancora by edenpictures, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3450/3798886747_05ede55244_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="Mancora by edenpictures, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>99 (corner):</b> The Headless Widow, cocktail bar, was Mancora, Peruvian; before that Spice House, grocery serving "Little India." </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <p><b>116 (corner):</b> <b>Saifee Hardware</b>, where we've bought paint for our apartment and plants for our community garden plot, among much else. The manager here was one of the folks who alerted the NYPD to the presence of subway shooting suspect Frank James. This used to be Pauline's Bar and Restaurant. It was also <b>Tunnel Bar</b>, which pioneered the East Village gay scene in the early 1980s. Before that it was <b>Red Bar</b>, a hangout for artists like Jean Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. <p><b>112:</b> Hunan Slurp was Imagine Bar & Grill, but before that was <b>Miracle Grill</b>, Southwestern restaurant where celebrity chef Bobby Flay achieved fame. Building dates to 1885. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/2972428678/" target="_blank" target="_blank" title="Diner by edenpictures, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3136/2972428678_2c69fc8339_m.jpg" width="240" height="192" alt="Diner by edenpictures, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>110:</b> Sushi Dojo was <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/890476621/" target="_blank"> <b>Polonia</b></a>, cozy diner; even cheaper and more Polish than Teresa's was. <p><b>102:</b> I don't usually note fast-food chains on the Songlines, but this corporate burger joint is notable as the place subway shooter Frank James was spotted hanging out on the day of his arrest. <p><b>102:</b> Has the same address as the building next door, although an entirely separate structure. Houses the <b> <a href="https://www.nypress.com/news/passing-the-bar-coal-yard-bar-LYNP1020101117311179990" target="_blank" title="NY Press"> Coal Yard Bar</a></b>, skinny dive that opened 2014; formerly Lilly Coogan's, and before that the Old Homestead Inn <a name="6st"></a> <br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="820" valign="top"> <br> <h2><center><a href="6st.htm#1av">W <===</a>         EAST 6TH STREET         <a href="6st.htm#1av">===> E</a></center></h2> </td></tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>97:</b> Kindred, Italian, was Banjara, spiffy Indian named for Indian relatives of the Romani (aka "Gypsies"). Next door i <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/saitowitz/2334076567/" target="_blank" title="Panna II by saitowitz, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2410/2334076567_f2e363d808_m.jpg" width="240" height="161" alt="Panna II by saitowitz, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>93:</b> Bengali rest- aurants with <a href="http://newyorkdailyphoto.blogspot.com/2006/04/chili-pepper-lights-meet-christmas.html" target="_blank"> so many Christmas lights</a> they're psychedelic. <b>Milon</b> is on the left and <b>Panna II</b> is on the right; <b>Royal</b> (which used to be light-free) is down below. Warning: Make up your mind which Christmas-light restaurant you want to eat in <i>before</i> you go up the stairs--or the decision will be made for you. <p><b>91:</b> <b>Sigiri</b>, Sri Lankan; E & C Trading had Indian movies, music, instruments; Dual (formerly Dowel Quality Products) has Indian groceries. <p><b>87:</b> Was First, restaurant/bar noted for fancy martinis. Now Blue Door Video. <a name="5st"></a> <p><b>85:</b> The Chippery was Mod World, Little Ricky-style kitsch <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/3798884231/" target="_blank" title="Three of Cups by edenpictures, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3421/3798884231_3fe42cfa6c_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="Three of Cups by edenpictures, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>83 (corner):</b> <b>Emmy Squared</b>, Detroit-style pizza. Was <b>Three of Cups</b>, romantic Italian where Quentin Tarantino got into a brawl in 1998. Previously Dizzy Chicken. </td></tr></table> <h2><center><a href="5st.htm#1av"><===</a> E 5TH ST</center></h2> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <br><br> <p><b>75:</b> This eight-story metal-and-glass building from 2017 doesn't look like anything else around it—whether that's good or bad I suppose is a matter of taste. Critics got it reduced in scale from 14 stories. It does make the drugstore squatting on the corner look like less of an eyesore. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/beatak/8206149/" target="_blank" title="by beatak, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/7/8206149_39ca8feead_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="by beatak, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>71:</b> The Sabieng Thai, formerly known as Pukk. <p><b>69:</b> <b>Downtown Bakery II</b> is an unassuming hole in the wall that serves good Mexican food. Noted for breakfast burritos. <br><br> <p><b>67:</b> <b><a href="https://www.batsulive.com/new-york/index.html" target="_blank" title="Home"> Batsu!</a></b>, Japanese-inspired interactive game show. <p>Corner (133 E 4th):</b> <b>Jennifer Cafe</b>, snack bar </td></tr></table> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <h2>Village View Apartments</h2> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jebb/2778036647/" target="_blank" title="Sunset on Village View in the East Village of NYC by jebb, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3129/2778036647_50983faaa1_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="Sunset on Village View in the East Village of NYC by jebb, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> Mitchell- Lama co-op whose seven towers were built in 1964. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br> There is a pleasant shortcut through these highrises to the rest of 5th Street. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <p>In the universe of Marvel Comics, Empire State University (where Peter Parker goes to college) is located here. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="4st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="820" valign="top"> <br> <h2><center><a href="4st.htm#1av">W <===</a>         EAST 4TH STREET         <a href="4st.htm#1av">===> E</a></center></h2> </td></tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>61 (corner):</b> Houston Village Farm, deli <p><b>59:</b> Cho-Ko, Japanese, was New Rage, another kitschy gift shop. <p><b>57B:</b> Mitumi Sushi <p><b>55:</b> Brickman's Ace Hardware <p><b>51:</b> From 1999-2020 this was <b><a href="https://evgrieve.com/2020/08/karma-lounge-closes-after-21-years-on.html" target="_blank" title="EV Grieve"> Karma</a></b>, hookah bar. <a name="3st"></a> <p><b>49 1/2 (corner):</b> Was The Bean, local coffee outpost that a <a href="https://www.thelodownny.com/leslog/2010/09/cab-jumps-curb-on-first-avenue-five-injured.html" target="_blank" title="Lo-Down"> cab drove into</a> in 2010. It replaced Kudo Beans, a coffee shop of New Jersey origins. Earlier it was Bulgin' Waffles, breakfast joint; and before that was <b>Little Ricky's</b>, kitsch mecca of the Lower East Side. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="820" valign="top"> <br> <h2><center><a href="3st.htm#1av">W <===</a>         EAST 3RD STREET         <a href="3st.htm#1av">===> E</a></center></h2> </td></tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <br><br> <p><b>45:</b> Aziza Cafe & Lounge, hookah joint <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dietsch/27840711/" target="_blank" title="d.b.a. by Michael Dietsch, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/21/27840711_f8607e4c57_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="d.b.a. by Michael Dietsch, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>41:</b> <b>d.b.a.</b>, bar with great beer, scotch selection. Stands for "Doing Business As," a standard acronym in small business documents. <a href="http://www.americanlegends.com/authors/norman_mailer.html" target="_blank"> Norman Mailer</a> wrote most of <i>The Deer Park</i> upstairs in this building. <p><b>39:</b> Former home of Edwin Fancher, who founded the <i>Village Voice</i> along with Norman Mailer. <p><b>37:</b> New Double Dragon, Chinese takeout <br><br> <p><b>33 (corner):</b> 1st Ave Laundry Center </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="2st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="820" valign="top"> <br> <h2><center><a href="2st.htm#1av">W <===</a>         EAST 2ND STREET         <a href="2st.htm#1av">===> E</a></center></h2> </td></tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/9714541204/in/photolist-h3ghc2-fNryDJ" target="_blank" title="Gringer Sign"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/3834/9714541204_468282912e_n.jpg" width="320" height="192" alt="Gringer Sign"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>27 (corner):</b> The Ezra Pound apartments. Ground floor is <b>Gringer's</b>, appliances since 1918. <br><br><br> <p><b>25:</b> Divya's Kitchen, Ayurvedic vegetarian; associated with the Bhakti Center, yoga-connected spirituality. Previously was the restaurant Sanctuary and the <b>Interfaith League Guest House</b>, respectively. <br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tnboriqua/498698196/" target="_blank" title="Storefront Radio by pattie74_99, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/209/498698196_6501e88920_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="Storefront Radio by pattie74_99, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>21:</b> Fineline Tattoo was <a href="http://eastvillageradio.com" target="_blank"> <b>East Village Radio</b></a>, an alternative station that played on 88.1 FM. You could literally step in the front door and be on the air. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/slice/20899154/" target="_blank" title="Lil' Frankie's by Adam "Slice" Kuban, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/16/20899154_15f330b470_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Lil' Frankie's by Adam "Slice" Kuban, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>19:</b> <b>Lil' Frankie's Pizza</b>, <br>spin-off of the popular Frank, is "the East Village's best pizza parlor"— <i>Village Voice</i>. <p><b>17:</b> <b>Speedy Lock & Door Co.</b>, since 1982. Was Harlyn Stationers, where the bad guy in the 1979 movie <i>The Warriors</i> uses a pay phone. <p><b>15:</b> <b>La Linea</b>, lounge <p><b>13 (corner):</b> <b>Superbueno</b>, fun cocktail bar/taqueria. The retro bar Boilermaker was here from 2014 to 2022; Boca Chica, festive South American, had the space from 1989-2013. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/35693004640/in/photolist-2hk1svr-2hk1szj-Wo4YKJ-7oYuwT" target="_blank" title="26 First Avenue"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4308/35693004640_7ccff9e670_m.jpg" width="240" height="192" align="right" alt="26 First Avenue"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p><b>26 (corner):</b> The ground floor of this 1920s building has been Spiegel Cafe, Rama Cafe, Animal Crackers pet supplies, Arka Co. Ukrainian gifts. Little Gio's Pizza is tucked into the downtown side of the building. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/saitowitz/1472045582/" target="_blank" title="Lucky Cheng's by saitowitz, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1260/1472045582_6c6810d283_m.jpg" width="240" height="186" alt="Lucky Cheng's by saitowitz, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>24:</b> This was the original home of <b> <a href="https://www.thrillist.com/eat/new-york/lucky-chengs-nyc-drag-restaurant" target="_blank" title="Thrillist"> Lucky Cheng's</a></b>, Asian food served by attractive cross- dressing or trans waitresses (one of whom was Laverne Cox). Opened in 1993, by 1995 it was a <a href="https://hornet.com/stories/lucky-chengs-nyc-stories/" target="_blank" title="Hornet"> celebrity hot spot</a>, turning away the likes of Barbra Streisand and Robert De Niro for lack of tables. The first episode of <i>Sex and the City</i>, in 1998, had a scene shot here. <p>Over time, it became more of a drag show, moving to Times Square in 2012; it's had a few spots since then, and can currently be found in Chelsea. <p>In a previous incarnation, this building was Club Baths, a plush gay sex club; later a restaurant, <b>Cave Canem</b>, whose basement featured lesbian orgies. <p><b>22:</b> <b>Ortiz Funeral Home</b>. Child abuse victim <a href="http://www.thevillager.com/villager_142/newyorkersflockto.html" target="_blank" title="Info"> Nixmary Brown</a>'s wake was held here in 2006. <P><b>20:</b> V-Nam Cafe, Vietnamese <p><b>18:</b> Chris Stein, later of Blondie, lived here while attending the School of Visual Arts. He then sublet the place to Tommy and Dee Dee Ramone. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/the-edge/2537181996/" target="_blank" title="SUTRA0508-14 by Edgie168, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2157/2537181996_c975891b68_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="SUTRA0508-14 by Edgie168, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>16:</b> <b>The Grayson</b>, sports bar. Previous bars here include Sutra Lounge, The Flat, xvi; Artists Rec. Ctr. <a name="1st"></a> <p><b>14:</b> <b>Lucien</b>, French bar/restaurant <p><b>12 (corner):</b> <b>One and One</b>, Irish-y pub </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="820" valign="top"> <br> <h2><center><a href="1st.htm#1av">W <===</a>         EAST 1ST STREET         <a href="1st.htm#1av">===> E</a></center></h2> <p>One of only two places in Manhattan where a numbered street meets an avenue with the same number. <p> </td></tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="66FF66"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <a name="houston"></a> <h3>First Park</h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/2540432156/" target="_blank" title="First Park Swings by edenpictures, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2128/2540432156_b28eba9cee_m.jpg" width="240" height="159" alt="First Park Swings by edenpictures, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>Corner:</b> A sliver of playground created in 1935 from land left over from widening Houston. Renovated in 1997. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jebb/2618592977/" target="_blank" title="Little Veselka by jebb, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3273/2618592977_74c6d31db1_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Little Veselka by jebb, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> The <a href="http://gothamist.com/2006/06/30/first_park_has_1.php" target="_blank" title="Info"> snack stand</a>, formerly known as Le Kiosk, is now run by Vesel- ka, the popular East Village Ukrainian diner, and serves an abbreviated version of their menu. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>1<br>S<br>T<br><br>A<br>V<br>E<br>N<br>U<br>E</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="66FF66"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <h3>Peretz Square</h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/reyes1981/511392898/" target="_blank" title="russ and daughters by Zanco Panco, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/201/511392898_0af3395d47_m.jpg" width="159" height="240" alt="russ and daughters by Zanco Panco, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> Named in 1952 for <a href="http://www.bartleby.com/65/pe/Peretz.html" target="_blank"> Isaac Loeb Peretz</a> (1851-1915), a Jewish Pole who has been called the father of modern Jewish literature. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="820" valign="top"> <br> <h2> <center><a href="houston.htm#1av">W <===</a>         EAST HOUSTON STREET         <a href="houston.htm#1av">===> E</a> <br><i>The southern boundary of the East Village.</i> </center></h2> </td></tr></table> </body> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>Corner (161 E Houston):</b> <b>Oliva</b>, cozy Spanish restaurant <p><b>205:</b> Mole Mexican Bar & Grill. Was Isla Del Encanto, deli. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br> <a name="stanton"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>A<br>L<br>L<br>E<br>N<br><br>S<br>T<br>R<br>E<br>E<br>T</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rchamorro/942997812/" target="_blank" title="Allen Street Lower East Side New York by Rafael Chamorro, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1280/942997812_e17810e73a_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Allen Street Lower East Side New York by Rafael Chamorro, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p>In part to improve Allen Street's bad repu- tation (it was part of the Lower East Side's red-light district), the street was widened in 1932 and a median put in in an effort to create a Park Avenue-like effect. All the buildings on the east side of the street were demolished for this project. The street is just now beginning to recover from this ill-conceived plan. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hilisapie/2309864858/" target="_blank" title="Obligatory by hilisapie, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2118/2309864858_3bc989660e_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Obligatory by hilisapie, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>Corner (200 Allen):</b> <b>Sugar Cafe</b> is an eclectic 24-hour neo-diner in the former <a href="8st.htm#6av">Economy Foam & Futon</a> space, which was founded here in 1937 and is now on <a href="8st.htm#6av">8th Street</a>. A huge American Apparel ad looms over the restaurant. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/roboppy/137997134/" target="_blank" title="Pala by roboppy, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/44/137997134_e2e8836119_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Pala by roboppy, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>198:</b> <b>Pala</b>, Roman- style pizza <p><b>196:</b> <b><a href="http://www.rockwoodmusichall.com/" target="_blank" title="Home"> Rock- wood Music Hall</a></b>, rock club. Actor/playwright Nicole Dufresne worked here as a bartender the night she was murdered on the corner of <a href="avb.htm#rivington" target="_blank" title="Songlines">Clinton and Rivington</a>. <p><b>188:</b> <b>Bar-B</b>, DJ lounge <p><b>Corner (82 Stanton):</b> <b>Epstein's Bar</b>, burger-and-beer joint named for the <i>Welcome Back Kotter</i> character (and not, they say, for the Epstein-Barr virus). Was The Living Room, acoustic-music club now on Ludlow. </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER> <A href="stanton.htm#1av"> W <===</A>     STANTON STREET     <A href="stanton.htm#1av"> ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <br><br><br><br><br> <br> <p><b>165:</b> <b>Dish</b>, fancy foods at affordable prices. <p><b>163:</b> The address of Parkway East, a legendary Roumanian steakhouse. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/emilygeoff/27807546/" target="_blank" title="Allen Street by emily geoff, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/23/27807546_2821127831_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Allen Street by emily geoff, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>157:</b> <a href="http://www.happyhappyhappy.com/retail_store.html" target="_blank"> <b>Happy Happy Happy</b></a>, dairy-free and gluten-free desserts <br><br><br> <a name="rivington"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>A<br>L<br>L<br>E<br>N<br><br>S<br>T</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <h3><a href="http://www.bluestockings.com/" target="_blank"> Bluestockings</a></h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexa627/142607424/" target="_blank" title="bluestockings by alexa627, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/46/142607424_96ed076ace_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="bluestockings by alexa627, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>172:</b> A progressive <a href="http://newyorkdailyphoto.blogspot.com/2007/01/bluestockings.html" target="_blank"> bookstore</a> and activist resource center. The name is a 19th Century term for "a woman with strong scholarly or literary interests." This was also the site of <a href="http://www.surfreality.com/" target="_blank"> Surf Reality</a>, an experimental theater space of the sort that can no longer afford to be on the Lower East Side. <p><b>158:</b> <a href="http://www.juttaneumann-newyork.com/" target="_blank"> Jutta Neumann</a> makes remarkable things out of leather. <p><b>152:</b> <a href="http://www.mooshoes.com/about.html" target="_blank"> <b>Moo Shoes</b></a>, vegan footwear. Founded 2001, moved to LES 2003. <br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER> <A href="rivington.htm#1av"> W <===</A>     RIVINGTON STREET     <A href="rivington.htm#1av"> ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <a name="delancey"></a> <br><br> <p><b>143:</b> Two-and-a-half story brick building, built in 1831. Landmarked in 2010. <a href="http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-1831-sutton-house-no-143-allen.html" target="_blank">Daytonian</a> has more. <p><b>133:</b> Formerly the <b>Allen Street Baths</b>; between 1905 and 1988, an estimated 4 million baths were taken here. Now houses the Church of Grace to Fujianese NY, a Chinese immigrant congregation. <br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>A<br>L<br>L<br>E<br>N<br><br>S<br>T</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <br><br> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/haesemeyer/155813774/" target="_blank" title="Eastern edge of chinatown by Martin Haesemeyer, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/61/155813774_68188fe2ac_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Eastern edge of chinatown by Martin Haesemeyer, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>120 (corner):</b> <b>Full Wedding Service Center</b> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER> <A href="delancey.htm#1av"> W <===</A>     DELANCEY STREET     <A href="delancey.htm#1av"> ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <br><br><br> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/monkeyone/247030361/" target="_blank" title="Fried Dumpling-Allen Street by Harris Graber, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/91/247030361_630e9f5f8e_m.jpg" width="194" height="240" alt="Fried Dumpling-Allen Street by Harris Graber, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>99:</b> <b>Fried Dumpling</b> is one of the cheapest places to eat in town--recommended by the <i>Voice</i>'s Robert Sietsema. <p><b>95:</b> <b>Lucky's Restaurant</b> <a name="broome"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>A<br>L<br>L<br>E<br>N</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <br><br> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/roboppy/71933742/" target="_blank" title="Congee Village by roboppy, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/34/71933742_2663a0a142_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Congee Village by roboppy, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>98:</b> <b>Congee Village Bar</b>, noted for outstanding karaoke rooms, as well as for tourist-challenging dishes like pork-stomach porridge and steamed fish head. This used to be the address of <a href="http://www.sonicscoop.com/2011/04/19/nyc-studio-sweet-spot-eastside-sound/" target="_blank" title="Sonic Scoop"> EastSide Sound</a>, a recording studio now on <a href="forsyth.htm#rivington">Forsyth Street</a>. <br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER> <A href="broome.htm#1av"> W <===</A>     BROOME STREET     <A href="broome.htm#1av"> ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <br><br> <p><b>85:</b> <b>Herbalica</b> <p><b>83:</b> Paramount Variety Goods Center <p><b>81:</b> Leyartte Bakery <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dandeluca/2939718354/" target="_blank" title="grand-and-allen-streets by dandeluca, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3004/2939718354_1ef39cff2a_m.jpg" width="240" height="171" alt="grand-and-allen-streets by dandeluca, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>Corner (302-306 Grand):</b> Grand Home Center; Rui Hui Books; Sunny Fashion Trading </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>A<br>L<br>L<br>E<br>N<br><br>S<br>T</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <p><b>88:</b> <b>Natural Restaurante</b> <br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="grand"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER> <A href="grand.htm#1av"> W <===</A>     GRAND STREET     <A href="grand.htm#1av"> ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br> <a name="hester"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>45 (corner):</b> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>A<br>L<br>L<br>E<br>N<br><br>S<br>T</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3>  <p><b>62-70 (corner):</b> This building, an 1876 French Empire structure, was <b>E. Ridley & Son</b>, which claimed in 1886 to be the country's largest retail store. Founded as a small dry goods store here in 1850, Ridley's moved uptown in 1901. A fire badly damaged the building in 1905, and one side was removed for the 1932 widening of Allen Street. <p>On November 23, 1859, <b>No. 70</b>, the corner address, was the birthplace of Henry McCarty--better known as <a href="http://www.desertusa.com/mag98/oct/papr/billykid.html" target="_blank"> Billy the Kid</a>. McCarty moved west with his family in 1865, where he later killed 21 men under the name William Bonney. <p><b>No. 62</b> is now Atlantis Seafood Wholesale. <p><b>40:</b> Lobster Farm </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER> <A href="hester.htm#1av"> W <===</A>     HESTER STREET     <A href="hester.htm#1av"> ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>37:</b> Time Art in Glass <br><br> <p><b>27:</b> This building, now a garage, served as a stable for Ridley's department store. <p><b>21:</b> <b>Mr. Tall Coffee & Bakery</b>, Chinese/American <br><br> <p><b>17:</b> <i>The Voice of Fujianes</i>, immigrant magazine </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>A<br>L<br>L<br>E<br>N</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <br><br><br> <a name="canal"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER><A href="canal.htm#1av">W <===</A>     CANAL STREET     <A href="canal.htm#1av"> ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <br><br> <p><b>11:</b> <b>Proton Saga Malaysian Restaurant</b> <p><b>3:</b> <b>Sentosa Malaysian Restaurant</b> <p><b>1 (corner):</b> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/toyochin/298406556/" target="_blank" title="beat your kids! neckface by spinachdip, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/111/298406556_f26e43c372_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="beat your kids! neckface by spinachdip, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <br>Tay Shing Corp. This used to be the head- quarters of the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/niznoz/104175399/" target="_blank" title="Image"> Manhattan Railway Co.</a>, which used to have a line up 2nd Avenue starting at Chatham Square. </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>A<br>L<br>L<br>E<br>N<br><br>S<br>T<br>R<br>E<br>E<br>T</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3>  <p><b>10 (corner):</b> 328 Grand Supply Inc. <br><br><br> <p><b>8:</b> <b>Happy Cafe</b> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="division"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W <===</A>     DIVISION STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>2 (block):</b> There's a Mobil station here. <br><br> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevehuang7/2617660125/" target="_blank" title="chinatown east broadway street by stevehuang7, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3082/2617660125_ceba971553_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="chinatown east broadway street by stevehuang7, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>P<br>I<br>K<br>E<br><br>S<br>T</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <a name="ebroadway"></a> <br> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dandeluca/2939717580/" target="_blank" title="east-broadway-and-allen by dandeluca, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3190/2939717580_cc40eda626_m.jpg" width="240" height="161" alt="east-broadway-and-allen by dandeluca, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>Corner (120 East Broadway): Wedding Garden Studio </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER> <A href="ebroadway.htm#1av"> W <===</A>     EAST BROADWAY     <A href="ebroadway.htm#1av"> ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <p><b>Corner (109 East Broadway):</b> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/moriza/271942020/" target="_blank" title="Night Market on East Broadway by moriza, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/82/271942020_5e7752cb7a_m.jpg" width="240" height="240" alt="Night Market on East Broadway by moriza, on Flickr" align="left" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <br>Was the <a href="http://www.nychinatown.org/storefronts/ebway/109ebway.html" target="_blank" title="Journey Through Chinatown"> Hong Kong Super- market</a>, which collapsed after a fire on May 14, 2009. <a name="henry"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>P<br>I<br>K<br>E<br><br>S<br>T</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <p><b>Corner (123 East Broadway):</b> <b>First American International Bank</b> <p><b>15:</b> Was the <b>Pike Street Synagogue</b>, a Classic Revival building from 1903 that housed the Congregation Sons of Israel Kalwarie. Eddie Cantor was bar mitzvahed here in 1905. Now a Buddhist temple. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W <===</A>     HENRY STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>West:</h3> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>P<br>I<br>K<br>E<br><br>S<br>T</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="madisonst"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> </tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <br> <H2><CENTER>W <===</A>     MADISON STREET      ===> E</A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TABLE> <table border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"> <h3>West:</h3> <a name="monroe"></a> <br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center>W <===</a>     MONROE ST</h2></center> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="66FF66"> <h3>Coleman Square Playground</h3> The Manhattan Bridge bisects this rare bit of Lower East Side green space. <br><br> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>P<br>I<br>K<br>E<br><br>S<br>T</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" > <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC99"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top"> <h3>East:</h3> <h3><a href="http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycha/html/developments/manrutgers.shtml" target="_blank" title="NYCHA"> Rutgers Houses</a></h3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/2613-say-yeah/2423051420/" target="_blank" title="playground, Rutgers Houses by 2613 say yeah!, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2276/2423051420_e0a55c992d_m.jpg" width="240" height="135" alt="playground, Rutgers Houses by 2613 say yeah!, on Flickr" align="right" target="_blank" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>61 (block):</b> An NYC Housing Authority development built in 1965, with five 20-story buildings <a name="cherry"></a> housing 721 apartment with more than 1,600 residents. It's named for Henry Rutgers (1745-1830), a local landowner and brewer who used to own a large farm on what is now the Lower East Side, including the land this project is built on. 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