79th Street (Manhattan)

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79th Street is a major two-way street in the Upper East Side and Upper West Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan. 79th Street stretches from East End Avenue to Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side. The 79th Street Transverse crosses Central Park, connecting to West 81st Street on the Upper West Side. 79th Street doesn't exists between Central Park West and Amsterdam Avenue, at the superblock occupied by the American Museum of Natural History. West of Amsterdam Avenue, 79th Street continues to an exit/entrance ramp for the West Side Highway.

The street is separated by Central Park. Although the west side is considered west of the park, the dividing line is in the center of Fifth Avenue, and thus easily (if only technically) accessible from the east side.

On the west side, the street is entirely within the boundaries of ZIP Code 10024; on the east side, it is 10021.

[edit] Transportation

The 79th Street station on the IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line is located at the intersection of 79th Street and Broadway. It is served by the 1 train (all times), and by the 2 train (late nights).

The M79 79th Street crosstown bus route, based at the Michael J. Quill Bus Depot runs from between the 79th Street Boat Basin and East End Avenue at all times.

[edit] Notable locations

• East 79th Street is an unnumbered southbound only entrance to teh FDR Drive.
• East 79th Street is the southern end of East End Avenue, which runs north-south to 90th Street.
• Mayor Michael Bloomberg resides on 79th Street, between Madison Avenue and Fifth Avenue.
• West 79th Street was the south end of the Receiving Reservoir, which stored water piped down from Westchester County that passed over the Harlem River and down the west side to the Receiving Reservoir, located between 79th and 86th Streets and Sixth and Seventh Avenues in an area then known as Yorkville. The Receiving Reservoir was a fortress-like building 1,826 feet long and 836 feet wide, and held up to 180 million gallons of water. Thirty-five million gallons flowed into it daily from northern Westchester.

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