34th Street is a major crosstown street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It runs the width of Manhattan Island from West Side Highway on the West Side to the FDR Drive on the East Side. 34th Street is used as a crosstown artery between New Jersey to the west and Queens to the east, connecting the Lincoln Tunnel to New Jersey with the Queens–Midtown Tunnel to Long Island.
From the west end of 34th Street, looking east (c. 2009)
Between 7th Avenue and Broadway is Macy's, which advertises itself as the "world's largest department store."
The Joe DiMaggio Highway, commonly called the West Side Highway and formerly the Miller Highway, is a 5.42-mile-long (8.72 km) mostly surface section of New York State Route 9A (NY 9A), running from West 72nd Street along the Hudson River to the southern tip of Manhattan in New York City. It replaced the West Side Elevated Highway, built between 1929 and 1951, which was shut down in 1973 due to neglect and lack of maintenance, and was dismantled by 1989. North of 72nd Street the roadway continues north as the Henry Hudson Parkway.
View from One World Trade Center
Beginning of West Street and the West Side Highway starting from the Battery Park Underpass
The last elevated portion of the West Side Highway by the Riverside South apartment complex
Former elevated highway, looking north at the Chambers Street ramps
