155th Street is a crosstown street separating the
Harlem and
Washington Heights neighborhoods, in the New York City
borough of
Manhattan. It is the northernmost of the 155 crosstown streets mapped out in the
Commissioner's Plan of 1811 that established the numbered street grid in Manhattan.[1]
The street consists of upper and lower portions. The upper portion starts on the
West Side at
Riverside Drive, crossing
Broadway,
Amsterdam Avenue, and
St. Nicholas Avenue. At St. Nicholas Place, the terrain drops off steeply, forming
Coogan's Bluff. 155th Street is carried on the 1,600-foot (490 m) long
155th Street Viaduct, a
City Landmark constructed in 1893, that slopes down towards the
Harlem River, continuing onto the
Macombs Dam Bridge, crossing over (but not intersecting with) the
Harlem River Drive.[2][3] An unconnected lower section of 155th Street runs at ground level under the viaduct, between a dead-end west of Bradhurst Avenue and a service road of the Harlem River Drive.[4]
Highbridge Park – situated on the banks of the Harlem River near the northernmost tip of Manhattan, between 155th Street and
Dyckman Street.[6]
Polo Grounds – The second and third (final) incarnations of the famed stadium were located at was then 8th Avenue from 1889 to 1963, in Coogan's Hollow on the north side of the viaduct. Over its life, it was home of the
New York Giants (1889–1957),
New York Yankees (1913–1922) and
New York Mets (1962–1963) baseball franchises, and the
New York Giants (1925–1955) and
New York Jets (1960–1963) football teams.
Hispanic Society of America – Museum of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American art and artifacts, as well as a rare books and manuscripts and research library, located at
Audubon Terrace.
^"REMARKS OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR LAYING OUT STREETS AND ROADS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, UNDER THE ACT OF APRIL 3, 1807". Archived from
the original on June 10, 2007. Retrieved May 2, 2007. 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.