Vanderbilt Avenue (Manhattan)

40.754336°N 73.977031°W / 40.754336; -73.977031

Vanderbilt Avenue (menghadap utara)

Vanderbilt Avenue adalah sebuah jalan pendek di borough Manhattan, New York City. Jalan ini membentang dari 42nd Street hingga 47th Street, antara Park Avenue dan Madison Avenue. Jalan ini dibentuk pada akhir 1860-an akibat pembangunan Grand Central Depot dan dinamai sesuai Cornelius Vanderbilt, pembangun terminal sesungguhnya.^[1] Grand Central Terminal Park Avenue Viaduct membentang di atas sisi timurnya. Yale Club of New York City dan Manhattan Institute for Policy Research terletak di Vanderbilt Avenue, di persimpangan East 44th Street.

Catatan kaki

1. Gray, Christopher. "Streetscapes/Grand Central Terminal; How a Rail Complex Chugged Into the 20th Century", The New York Times, June 21, 1998. Accessed October 27, 2007. "According to Carl Condit's 1980 book, The Port of New York, in the 1860's Cornelius Vanderbilt sold his shipping interests to get control of the New York & Harlem, the New York Central, and the Hudson River Railroads.... From 1869 to 1871 the first Grand Central Station was built, 249 feet wide on 42d Street, 698 feet long on newly created Vanderbilt Avenue."