Sixth Avenue

 

Sixth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in Manhattan, also called Avenue of the Americas. It runs northbound from Franklin Street, in TriBeCa, to 59th Street, bordering Central Park. It was commissioned in 1811.

Until the early 20th century, the stretch of Manhattan that lies along Broadway and Sixth Avenue, between 23d and 33d Streets, was at the heart of New York life.

The avenue's official name was changed to Avenue of the Americas in 1945 by the City Council, the bill was signed into law by the mayor on October 2. The change, however, was not popular and now the avenue has both names.

Avenue Americas

Street signs from Google Street View.

 

Sixth Avenue

 

Old City of New York

 

 

Copyright © Geographic Guide - Old images of NYC.

 

 

Above, stores, offices and elevated tracks on Sixth Avenue, looking north from 14th Street, 1905. It was the second elevated railway in Manhattan. The building with a tower in the distance was the Siegel Cooper Department Store, opened in 1896, then considered to be the largest in the world (vintage post card by Rotograph Co).

 

Manhattan photographs

 

Jefferson Market

 

Rockefeller Center

 

Shoppers NY

 

NYC Broadway

 

Fifth Avenue New York

 

Shops NYC

 

Knickerbocker Cottage

 

6th Avenue at 45th Street in the 1990s.

 

New York Athletic Club

 

Broadway 6th Avenue

 

The historic Knickerbocker Cottage in the 19th century, a tavern located in 6th Avenue, between 27th and 28th Streets.

 

St. Moritz Hotel

 

Crystal Palace

 

Jefferson Market NY

 

Barbizon Plaza

 

Broadway Six Avenue

 

Elevated Railway NY

 

Manhattan 19th century

Lower Manhattan, looking south from 42nd Street, showing the Croton Reservoir and the Crystal Palace, built for the Exhibition of the Industries of All Nations, 1853/1854.

 

59th Street NY

 

Seventh Avenue

 

Elevated railway

 

Herald Square photographs

 

Rockefeller Center

 

Sixth Avenue NY

 

NYC

 

 

45th Street

 

Old City New York

 

Sixth Avenue