155th Street is a crosstown street separating theHarlem andWashington Heights neighborhoods, in the New York Cityborough ofManhattan. It is the northernmost of the 155 crosstown streets mapped out in theCommissioner's Plan of 1811 that established the numbered street grid in Manhattan.[1]
The street consists of upper and lower portions, linked only by a steep pedestrian stairwell. The upper portion starts on theWest Side atRiverside Drive, crossingBroadway,Amsterdam Avenue, andSt. Nicholas Avenue. At St. Nicholas Place, the terrain drops off steeply, formingCoogan's Bluff. 155th Street is carried on the 1,600-foot (490 m) long155th Street Viaduct, aCity Landmark constructed in 1893, that slopes down towards theHarlem River, continuing onto theMacombs Dam Bridge, crossing over (but not intersecting with) theHarlem 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]
TheNew York City Subway serves the upper portion of 155th Street at155th Street/St. Nicholas Avenue on theIND Eighth Avenue Line and the lower portion at155th Street/Frederick Douglass Boulevard on theIND Concourse Line.[5]
Bus service is provided by theBx6 andBx6 SBS east of Broadway, theM2 east of Edgecombe Avenue, and theM3 between Amsterdam and Saint Nicholas Avenues, all underNew York City Bus.
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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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