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86th Street (Manhattan)

86th Street is a major two-way street in the Upper East Side and Upper West Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It runs in two major sections: between East End and Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side, and between Central Park West and Riverside Drive on the Upper West Side. The western segment feeds into the 86th Street transverse across Central Park, which connects to East 84th and 85th Streets on the eastern side.

86th Street
German Broadway
Looking west on East 86th Street near Third Avenue
Map
Maintained byNYCDOT
Length1.6 mi (2.6 km)[1]
Width100 feet (30.48 m)
LocationManhattan
Postal code10024 (west), 10028 (east)
Coordinates40°46′40″N 73°57′06″W / 40.777877°N 73.951741°W / 40.777877; -73.951741
West endRiverside Drive in Upper West Side
East endEast End Avenue in Yorkville
North87th Street
South85th Street
Construction
Commissioned1811

On the West Side its continuous cliff-wall of apartment blocks including The Belnord and the Orwell House is broken by two contrasting landmarked churches at prominent corner sites, the Tuscan Renaissance Saints Paul and Andrew United Methodist Church at the corner of West End Avenue, and the rusticated brownstone Romanesque Revival West-Park Presbyterian Church at the corner of Amsterdam Avenue.

History

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"Blackwells Island, East River, from Eighty Sixth Street", Currier & Ives, 1862: the villa overlooking the river had belonged to John Jacob Astor

The street was designated by the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 as one of 15 east-west streets that would be 100 feet (30 m) in width (while other streets were designated as 60 feet (18 m) in width).[2]

Until the years following World War II, Yorkville on the East Side was a predominantly German community, and East 86th Street was nicknamed the German Broadway.[3] The early settlement originally clustered around the 86th Street stop of the New York and Harlem Railroad. Since the late 1980s, nearly all distinctly German shops have disappeared, apart from a few restaurants on Second Avenue. The street was commonly considered a boundary for public utilities. For example, different telephone exchanges at East 79th and 97th Streets served the north and south sides of the street. Local number portability in the early 21st century allowed transferring phone numbers to either side.

A sunken street through Central Park, the 86th Street transverse, connects West 86th Street with eastbound East 84th Street and westbound East 85th Street.[4] Miners Gate provides pedestrian access to the park at East 86th, and Mariners Gate at West 85th.

Transportation

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The M86 Select Bus Service bus serves the street between York Avenue and either Broadway (westbound) or West End Avenue (eastbound). At the east side of the Central Park transverse, eastbound buses use East 84th Street until Madison Avenue due to Fifth Avenue being a downtown-only corridor.

The New York and Harlem Railroad used to operate an 86th Street rail line which ran on the surface from Central Park West, through Central Park and on to York Avenue. The line then turned north and terminated at the Astoria Ferry landing at 92nd Street.[5]

It is currently served by the following New York City Subway stations:

Until the 1950s, the Second Avenue and Third Avenue elevated lines served 86th Street on the East Side.

The New York Central Railroad's 86th Street station previously existed on Park Avenue, which now carries the Park Avenue main line of the Metro-North Railroad. The station opened in 1876.[7][8] The station was last listed on the May 20, 1901 timetable and was left off the June 23, 1901 timetable.[9][10] An emergency exit is the only vestige of the station's existence.

 
The William Starr Miller House, on the corner of Fifth Avenue
 
The Belnord, on the corner of Amsterdam Avenue
 
The 86th Street Theatre near Third Avenue has been demolished

Notable residents

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East

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West

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See also

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References

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Notes

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  2. ^ Morris, Gouverneur, De Witt, Simeon, and Rutherford, John [sic] (March 1811) "Remarks Of The Commissioners For Laying Out Streets And Roads In The City Of New York, Under The Act Of April 3, 1807", Cornell University Library. Accessed June 27, 2016. "These streets are all sixty feet wide except fifteen, which are one hundred feet wide, viz.: Numbers fourteen, twenty-three, thirty-four, forty-two, fifty-seven, seventy-two, seventy-nine, eighty-six, ninety-six, one hundred and six, one hundred and sixteen, one hundred and twenty-five, one hundred and thirty-five, one hundred and forty-five, and one hundred and fifty-five--the block or space between them being in general about two hundred feet."
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  5. ^ Meyers, Stephen L. (2005). Manhattan's Lost Streetcars. Arcadia Publishing. p. 97. ISBN 9780738538846.
  6. ^ a b c d "New York City Subway with railroad and airport connections". May 13, 2022. Retrieved May 16, 2022.
  7. ^ "Partial Rapid Transit: From The Grand Central Depot. Arrangements For Quick Trains On The Harlem Road Trains To Run Next Monday Fares, Time, Rates of Communication" (PDF). The New York Times. May 12, 1876. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
  8. ^ "Rapid Transit To And From Harlem" (PDF). The New York Times. April 13, 1876. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
  9. ^ The Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States, Porto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba. National Railway Publication Company. 1900. p. 200.
  10. ^ The Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States, Porto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba. National Railway Publication Company. 1901. p. 190.
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