57th Street (Manhattan)
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57th Street is a street that runs east-west in the New York City borough of Manhattan, running from a New York City Department of Sanitation dock on the Hudson River at the West Side Highway to the East River at the FDR Drive. It is just two blocks south of Central Park between Fifth Avenue and Central Park West. 57th Street is notable for having many upscale restaurants and bars.
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Looking up the canyon street from the Hudson River
[edit] Attractions
- Four Seasons Hotel between Madison and Park Avenues
- Tourneau TimeMachine (flagship store) at Madison Avenue
- Tiffany & Co. at Fifth Avenue
- Bergdorf Goodman at Fifth Avenue
- Ascot Chang at Fifth Avenue
- Carnegie Hall at Seventh Avenue
- Russian Tea Room, adjoins Carnegie Hall
- Hearst Tower at Eighth Avenue
- CBS Broadcast Center, from Tenth to Eleventh Avenues
[edit] Intersections from east to west
- Sutton Place / Sutton Place South
- First Avenue
- Second Avenue
- Third Avenue
- Lexington Avenue
- Park Avenue
- Madison Avenue
- Fifth Avenue - East 57th Street becomes West 57th Street
- Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas)
- Seventh Avenue
- Broadway - about three-quarters of the way from Seventh Avenue to Eighth Avenue
- Eighth Avenue
- Ninth Avenue
- Tenth Avenue
- Eleventh Avenue
- West Side Highway
