Lexington Avenue, often colloquially abbreviated as "Lex", is an avenue on the East Side of Manhattan in New York City. The avenue carries southbound one-way traffic from East 131st Street to Gramercy
Lexington Avenue seen from the top of the Chrysler Building
Lexington Avenue seen from 50th Street with the Chrysler Building in the background
Lexington Avenue, January 2017
Park Avenue is a boulevard in New York City that carries north and southbound traffic in the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx. For most of the road's length in Manhattan, it runs parallel to Madiso
Lexington Avenue
…and real-estate developer, petitioned the New York State Legislature to approve the creation of a new north–south avenue between the existing Third and Fourth Avenues, between 14th and 30th Streets. Ruggles had purchased land in the area and was developing it as a planned community of townhouses around a private park…
Looking south from 52nd Street, facing the MetLife Building and Helmsley Building in the background with St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church and Waldorf Astoria New York to the left
The railroad tunnel in 1941
Old Hotel Marguery on Park Avenue, flattened in the 1950s to make way for the Union Carbide Building
Park Avenue on the Upper East Side