__FORCETOC__ 51st Street is a long

one-way One-way or one way may refer to: *One-way traffic, a street either facilitating only one-way traffic, or designed to direct vehicles to move in one direction *One-way travel, a trip that does not return to its origin Music *One Way (American ban ...

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traveling east to west across

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Notable places, east to west

The route officially begins at

Beekman Place Beekman Place is a small street located in the Turtle Bay neighborhood on the East Side of Manhattan, New York City. Running from north to south for two blocks, the street is situated between the eastern end of 51st Street and Mitchell Place, ...

which is on a hill overlooking

FDR Drive The Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive, commonly called the FDR Drive for short, is a limited-access parkway on the east side of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It starts near South and Broad Streets, just north of the Battery Park ...

. 51st continues for a few feet east of the intersection but the street sign refers to it as Peter Detmold Park (a reference to the dog park at the bottom of the hill) which has a pedestrian walk way over the FDR to the East River.

Beekman Place

* Yemen Mission to the United Nations

First Avenue

*351 East 51st Street - An apartment complex on one of several sites where

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is believed to have been hanged, after the Battle of Long Island *

Laos Laos (, ''Lāo'' )), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, French: République démocratique populaire lao), is a socialist ...

Mission to the United Nations

Second Avenue

* Tonga Mission to the United Nations *

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Mission to the United Nations *POD Hotel *

Greenacre Park Greenacre Park is a privately owned, publicly accessible vest-pocket park located on East 51st Street between Second and Third Avenues in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, designed by Hideo Sasaki, former chairman of H ...

Sutton Place Synagogue Sutton Place Synagogue (Jewish Center for the United Nations) is a Traditional Jewish congregation located at 225 East 51st Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The congregation was founded in 1901 as Congregation "Beth Hamedrash Hachodos ...

Third Avenue

*17th Precinct of NYPD *Engine Company No 8, Ladder 2, 8th Battalion of FDNY *

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* Great Britain Consulate

Lexington Avenue

* General Electric Building * St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church *

345 Park Avenue 345 Park Avenue is a skyscraper in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It occupies an entire city block bounded by Park Avenue, Lexington Avenue, 51st Street, and 52nd Street. Completed in 1969, with 44 floors, the building ...

Park Avenue

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* 320 Park Avenue * Villard Houses and

The New York Palace Hotel Lotte New York Palace Hotel is a luxury hotel in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, at the corner of 50th Street and Madison Avenue. It was originally developed between 1977 and 1980 by Harry Helmsley. The hotel consists o ...

Madison Avenue

* St. Patrick's Cathedral *

488 Madison Avenue 488 Madison Avenue, also known as the Look Building, is a 25-story office building in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It is along Madison Avenue's western sidewalk between 51st and 52nd Streets, near St. Patrick's Cathedr ...

(Look Building) * John Peirce Residence * Venezuela Consulate * Olympic Tower

Fifth Avenue

* Rockefeller Center *

Radio City Music Hall Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue and Theater (structure), theater at 1260 Sixth Avenue (Manhattan), Avenue of the Americas, within Rockefeller Center, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Nicknamed "The Showplac ...

* 1290 Avenue of the Americas

Sixth Avenue

* Time-Life Building *

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Studios * 1285 Avenue of the Americas * 787 Seventh Avenue * Millennium Plaza (former Taft Hotel)

Sixth and a Half Avenue

* In the middle of block between Sixth and Seventh Avenues is a pedestrian corridor named by the city "

Sixth and a Half Avenue Sixth is the ordinal number, ordinal form of the number Six (number), six. * The Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Sixth Amendment, to the U.S. Constitution * A keg of beer, equal to 5 U.S. gallons or barrel * The fraction Mus ...

", which runs from 51st to 57th Streets.

Seventh Avenue

* Sheraton Manhattan

Broadway

* Novotel Manhattan *

Paramount Plaza Paramount Plaza, also 1633 Broadway and formerly the Uris Building, is a 48-story skyscraper in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Designed by Emery Roth and Sons, the building was developed by the Uris brothers and was renamed ...

* Mark Hellinger Theatre *

Times Square Church Times Square Church is an interdenominational congregation located at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on 237 West 51st Street in the Theater District of Manhattan in New York City. Times Square Church was founded by Pastor David Wilkerson in 1987 and ...

George Gershwin Theatre The Gershwin Theatre (originally the Uris Theatre) is a Broadway theater at 222 West 51st Street, on the second floor of the Paramount Plaza office building, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Opened in 1972, it is operate ...

Eighth Avenue

*St. Paul's House - Church founded by J.J.D. Hall that is noted for its "Sin Will Find You Out" neon sign in the shape of a cross that was featured on Saturday Night Live

Ninth Avenue

*Closed Midtown Branch of Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center (formerly St. Clares Hospital)

Eleventh Avenue

* Hustler Club

West Side Highway

The route concludes at the West Side Highway (

New York Route 9A New York State Route 9A (NY 9A) is a state highway in the vicinity of New York City in the United States. Its southern terminus is at Battery Place near the northern end of the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel in New York City, where it inter ...

). Opposite the intersection is the

New York Passenger Ship Terminal The Manhattan Cruise Terminal, formerly known as the New York Passenger Ship Terminal or Port Authority Passenger Ship Terminal is a ship terminal for ocean-going passenger ships in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York City. History The New ...

and the Hudson River.

Transportation

The

New York City Subway The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system owned by the government of New York City and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, an affiliate agency of the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Opened on October 2 ...

51st Street station The Lexington Avenue/51st Street station is a New York City Subway station complex on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line and IND Queens Boulevard Line. The station is located on Lexington Avenue and stretches from 51st Street to 53rd Street in Midto ...

is located on the intersection of 51st Street and Lexington Avenue and is served by the . There is an entrance on the intersection of 51st Street and Eighth Avenue leading to the uptown platforms of the 50th Street station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line, which is served by the . Another entrance on the intersection leading to the downtown platforms of the station existed until 1992, when it was closed.

References

Notes

External links

Emporis West 51st profile
- virtual walking tour {{Manhattan streets, state=collapsed 051 Midtown Manhattan