The Seventh Avenue Line is a surface
public transit line in
Manhattan,
New York City,
United States, connecting
Lower Manhattan
Lower Manhattan (also known as Downtown Manhattan or Downtown New York) is the southernmost part of Manhattan, the central borough for business, culture, and government in New York City, which is the most populated city in the United States with ...
with
Central Park along
Seventh Avenue. Once a
streetcar line, it is now part of the southbound direction of the
M10 and
M20 bus routes.
History
The
Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad
Broadway may refer to:
Theatre
* Broadway Theatre (disambiguation)
* Broadway theatre, theatrical productions in professional theatres near Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
** Broadway (Manhattan), the street
** Broadway Theatre (53rd Str ...
was chartered by the
New York State Legislature in April 1860; the authorized system consisted of two main lines - the Seventh Avenue Line and
Broadway Line - connecting
Broadway near
City Hall
In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre (in the UK or Australia), guildhall, or a municipal building (in the Philippines), is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality. It usually houses ...
with Central Park. The Seventh Avenue Line began at Seventh Avenue and
59th Street and proceeded in a general southerly direction through Seventh Avenue,
Greenwich Avenue,
Eighth Street,
MacDougal Street,
Fourth Street,
Thompson Street,
Canal Street, and
West Broadway
West Broadway is a north-south street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, separated into two parts by Tribeca Park. The northern part begins at Tribeca Park, near the intersection of Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue), Walker Street a ...
, with a
one-way pair of single tracks in West Broadway and
Barclay Street in one direction and
Chambers Street and
Church Street in the other, and ending in a double track on the block of Barclay Street between Church Street and Broadway. Branches along three other streets -
Broome Street
Broome Street is an east–west street in Lower Manhattan. It runs nearly the full width of Manhattan island, from Hudson Street in the west to Lewis Street in the east, near the entrance to the Williamsburg Bridge. The street is interrupted in ...
,
Duane Street Duane may refer to:
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* Duane (surname)
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* the title character of ''Duane Hopwood'', a 2005 film featured in the Sundance Film Festival
* Duane Adelier, a main character of ''Unsounded'', a 2012 fantas ...
, and
Park Place - to Broadway were also authorized, and the Broadway Line shared the route north of
Times Square and south of Barclay Street (in one direction on Church Street) and Canal Street (in the other direction on West Broadway).
The company was incorporated on May 26, 1864,
[Harry James Carman]
The Street Surface Railway Franchises of New York City
pages 119 to 121 and opened the Seventh Avenue Line by the end of 1865.
An 1866 law required the company to replace its double track in
Fourth and Thompson Streets with a
one-way pair, the other direction using
Third
Third or 3rd may refer to:
Numbers
* 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3
* , a fraction of one third
* Second#Sexagesimal divisions of calendar time and day, 1⁄60 of a ''second'', or 1⁄3600 of a ''minute''
Places
* 3rd Street (d ...
and
Sullivan Streets between MacDougal and Canal Streets.
[Chapter 500, An Act to change the route of the Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad Company in the city of New York, reproduced i]
A Compilation of the Existing Ferry Leases and Railroad Grants Made by the Corporation of the City of New York
1866, pages 412 to 413 Since the block of MacDougal Street between Third and Fourth Streets was already used northbound by the
Bleecker Street and Fulton Ferry Railroad
The Bleecker Street Line was a public transit line in Manhattan, New York City, United States, running mostly along Bleecker Street, Crosby Street, and Lafayette Street from the West 14th Street Ferry in Chelsea to the Fulton Ferry in the Finan ...
's
Bleecker Street Line
The Bleecker Street Line was a public transit line in Manhattan, New York City, United States, running mostly along Bleecker Street, Crosby Street, and Lafayette Street from the West 14th Street Ferry in Chelsea to the Fulton Ferry in the Financ ...
, and the Seventh Avenue cars used that track via
trackage rights, a law was passed in 1867 requiring the Seventh Avenue cars to travel in the same direction, with northbound cars in Sullivan Street, a block west of southbound cars in Thompson Street.
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References
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