First Avenue (Manhattan)
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First Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare on the East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan, running from Houston Street northbound to 127th Street. At 125th Street, most traffic continues o
Looking south down 1st Avenue from the Roosevelt Island Tramway
Bike lane on First Avenue
Looking south on First Avenue from 13th Street during the demolition of the Second Avenue El in September 1942
United Nations headquarters at First Avenue and 42nd Street
Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village, colloquially known as StuyTown, is a large post-World War II private residential development on the east side of the New York City borough of Manhattan. The compl
First Avenue (Manhattan)
…from Houston Street to 23rd Street before turning west at 23rd and then north onto Second Avenue. This elevated line was torn down in 1942. When the Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village private residential developments were constructed along the east side of First Avenue from 14th to 23rd streets in the mid-1940s, First Avenue and other…
Stuyvesant Town as seen from the south at First Avenue in 2006
East 20th Street looking east in the direction of First Avenue in 1938. This picture shows two of the huge gas holders that gave the area the name Gas House District; the block in the foreground did not become part of the Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village complex, but the area on the east side of First Avenue, where the tanks are, did. (Photo by Berenice Abbott)
Stuyvesant Town (bottom and left) and Peter Cooper Village (top and right) as seen from the air over the East River looking northwest (2012)
Stuyvesant Town's central green, the Oval