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34th Street (Manhattan)

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34th Street is a major cross-town street connecting the Lincoln Tunnel and Queens-Midtown Tunnel. Like many major cross town streets it has its own bus lines (M16 and M34) and four subway stops serving the A</pre>, C and E</pre> trains at Eighth Avenue, the 1, 2 and 3 trains at Seventh Avenue, the B, D</pre>, F</pre>, V</pre>, N</pre>, Q</pre>, R</pre>, W</pre> and PATH trains at Herald Square, and the 6 train at Park Avenue.

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[edit] A walk down 34th Street, west to east

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On the West Side 34th Street is in the neighborhood Hell's Kitchen. The Post Office and the new Penn Station dominate on the west side and one may catch Amtrak trains to destinations all over the US and Canada. The area around Penn Station is famously sketchy, many homeless people sleep in the station and porn shops cluster on the nearby side streets. The steps of James Farley Post Office are grand. Built on the scale of the old (and much missed) Penn Station, the architecture of the post office gives one a flavor of what the area was like in the height of the railroad era.

34th Street is a self-styled shopping street. Though it endured some decline in the 1970s, it has rebounded with new stores and new energy. A giant video board and light display at 34th and Broadway is like a mini Times Square. Between 7th Ave. and Broadway you will find Macy's the famous department store immortalized in the Christmas movie Miracle on 34th Street. It claims to be the "world's largest store."

After the insanity of the shopping district, the influence of the East Side and the sedate corporate office towers of the neighborhoods Kips Bay and Murray Hill starts to take hold. On 5th Ave one finds the Empire State Building. The tallest building in the city, it stands on a rare ledge of solid Manhattan schist dominating the skyline. At the far end one finds bulky luxury residential buildings and a great number of dogs patronizing the pet care parlors the serve the pure-bred loving populations of Kips Bay.

[edit] Places along 34th Street

Places located along 34th Street include (from west to east):

[edit] Intersections from east to west

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Bi-Directional Streets of Midtown Manhattan
West End
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Central Park North
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Houston Street 		East End
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