Seventh Avenue (Manhattan)
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Seventh Avenue / Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard is a thoroughfare on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It is a downtown (southbound) avenue below Central Park. It is interrupted by Central Park from 59th to 110th Street, with its southern point ending when it meets Clarkson Street in the West Village and becomes Varick Street. North of the Park, the road runs in both directions through Harlem, where the road is called Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard. The road continues across the Harlem River via the Macombs Dam Bridge, where it becomes Jerome Avenue upon reaching the Bronx.
Running through the Fashion Center (12th Avenue to 5th Avenue and 34th Street to 39th Street), it is sometimes referred to as "Fashion Avenue" due to its role as a center of the garment and fashion industry and the famed fashion designers who established New York as a world fashion capital.
Seventh Ave is also famous for crossing Broadway and 42nd Street at an intersection known as Times Square. Carnegie Hall, Madison Square Garden and Penn Station, The Fashion Institute of Technology, and James J. Walker Park are some of the notable destinations that reside along 7th Avenue.
The street is mentioned in the Simon and Garfunkel song The Boxer, in which the protagonist mentions receiving "come-ons from the whores on Seventh Avenue."
| Major Avenues of Manhattan | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| To the west (varies by location) Eighth Avenue Central Park West | Seventh Avenue | To the east (varies by location) Sixth Avenue Lenox Avenue | ||
| WSH (12) | Riverside | 11 (West End) | 10 (Amsterdam) | Dyer | 9 | 8 or CPW | 7 | 6 or Lenox | 5 | Madison | Park (4) | Lexington | 3 | 2 | 1 | A or York | B or East End | C | D | FDR | ||||
