Third Avenue is a street in the East Side borough of Manhattan and the South Bronx . Third Avenue begins at Cooper Square in Lower Manhattan , continues uninterrupted to the Third Avenue Bridge , runs through the South Bronx and ends at the intersection with the Fordham Highway. Third Avenue is one of the four streets that form the Hub , the social and cultural core of the South Bronx.
| Third avenue | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Third avenue | ||||
| general information | ||||
| A country | USA | |||
| City | New York | |||
| Area | East Side , South Bronx | |||
| Length | 17.3 km | |||
| Borough | Manhattan Bronx | |||
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The section from Cooper Square to 24th Third Avenue since July 1960 is two-sided [1] . Then, right up to the Third Avenue bridge, traffic on the street becomes one-way and is directed from south to north. The movement on the bridge is also one-way, but directed from north to south. In the Bronx, Third Avenue is two-way along its entire length.
Third Avenue was not completely tiled back in the middle of the 19th century. So, in May 1861, The New York Times wrote about the training march of the 7th Volunteer Infantry Regiment [2] :
People were not in uniform, but in very poor clothes - many had slippers as shoes. More striking was the businesslike manner with which they marched swiftly through the deep pools of Third Avenue.
Original textThe men were not in uniform, but very poorly dressed, - in many cases with flip-flap shoes. The business-like air with which they marched rapidly through the deep mud of the Third-avenue was the more remarkable.
In the 19th century, an overpass railway was laid along Third Avenue. She acted from 1878 to 1955 in Manhattan and until 1973 in the Bronx. [3] In the mid-20th century, activists proposed renaming the avenue in Bouwerie. However, the street was never part of the Bowery area, and the proposal did not find wide support. [four]
Notes
- ↑ Irving Spiegel. 2 One-Way Shifts Go Smoothly The New York Times (18 July 1960). Date of treatment April 5, 2014.
- ↑ A Word in Season on an Important Subject. (eng.) . New York Times (16 May 1861). Date of treatment April 5, 2014.
- ↑ A Streetwise History of New York City, 2009 , pp. 138-140.
- ↑ A Streetwise History of New York City, 2009 , pp. 171.
Literature
- Michelle Nevius, James Navius. Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City. - N. Y .: Free Press, 2009 .-- 364 p. - ISBN 978-1-4165-8997-6 .