Key facts
- Namesake
- Madison Square, named after James Madison
- Owner
- City of New York
- Maintained by
- New York City Department of Transportation
- Length
- 6.0 mi (9.7 km)
- Location
- Manhattan , New York City
- Postal code
- 10010, 10016, 10017, 10022, 10065, 10021, 10075, 10028, 10128, 10029, 10035, 10037
- South end
- 23rd Street in Flatiron
- Major junctions
- Harlem River Drive / Madison Avenue Bridge in East Harlem
- North end
- Harlem River Drive / 142nd Street in Harlem
- East
- Park Avenue
- West
- Fifth Avenue
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- James Madison
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Manhattan
- Image
- Madison Ave NYC looking nor.jpg
- Length
- 6.0
- Dialing code
- 212
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- parallel street
- Fifth Avenue
- native label
- Madison Avenue
- Commons category
- Madison Avenue
- postal code
- 10128
- topic's main category
- Category:Madison Avenue
- maintained by
- New York City Department of Transportation
- twinned administrative body
- Via del Babuino
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Encyclopedic overview
Madison Avenue is a north–south avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, New York, that carries northbound one-way traffic. It runs from Madison Square (at 23rd Street) to meet the southbound Harlem River Drive at 142nd Street, passing through Midtown, the Upper East Side (including Carnegie Hill), East Harlem, and Harlem. It is named after and arises from Madison Square, which is itself named after James Madison, the fourth president of the United States.
Madison Avenue was not part of the original Manhattan street grid established in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, and was carved between Park Avenue (formerly Fourth) and Fifth Avenue in 1836, due to the effort of lawyer and real estate developer Samuel B. Ruggles, who had previously purchased and developed New York's Gramercy Park in 1831, and convinced the authorities to create Lexington Avenue and Irving Place between Fourth Avenue (now Park Avenue South) and Third Avenue in order to service it.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Madison Avenue” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.