West-east street in Manhattan, New York
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.
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
"
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
The
M86
Select Bus Service bus serves the street. Until the 1950s, the
Second Avenue and
Third Avenue elevated lines served 86th Street on the East Side.
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:
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
East
West
See also
References
Notes
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^
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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^ Manhattan, NY 10028 (January 1, 1970).
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"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 .
^
"Rapid Transit To And From Harlem" (PDF) . The New York Times . April 13, 1876.
ISSN
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^
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.
^
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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The New York Observer . Retrieved January 19, 2013 .
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^
"Elena Kagan's Upper West Side story – New York on the Potomac" . Blog.timesunion.com. May 13, 2010. Retrieved October 26, 2011 .
^ William Randolph hearst 86th street
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"TRP: Obituary: Amos Joel" . Trp.trpc.com.hk. Archived from
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"Favorite Son | Michael Gross" . Mgross.com. Retrieved October 26, 2011 .
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"Grete Mosheim (1905-1986)" . Passport Land. Archived from
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" 'The Panic in Needle Park' Director Recalls the 70s, a Young Al Pacino, and Risking his Life for a Good Shot on 50th Anniversary" . October 7, 2021.
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^
"Mira Sorvino (address)" . Archived from
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^
"CursumPerficio" . CursumPerficio. Retrieved June 5, 2014 .
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See also:
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