Eleventh Avenue (Manhattan)
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Eleventh Avenue / West End Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare on the far West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, not far from the Hudson River. It carries downtown (south-bound) traffic only south of West 43rd Street, and two-way traffic north of it.
Eleventh Avenue originates in the Meatpacking District in the West Village neighborhood, near the corner of West 14th Street, and runs uptown (northward) until its intersection with West 59th Street, where it (along with several other West Side avenues) is re-signed as West End Avenue but continues without interruption. The thoroughfare continues 58 blocks uptown to West 107th Street, at which point West End Avenue terminates and merges with Broadway.
Between West 14th Street and West 23rd Street, Eleventh Avenue is part of the West Side Highway. At West 22nd Street, Twelfth Avenue/West Side Highway begins from a split with Eleventh Avenue.
The segment between approximately West 39th Street and West 59th Street is home to the largest concentration of auto dealerships in Manhattan. Mercedes-Benz is located across from the westbound Lincoln Tunnel Portal, with BMW and Lexus at the intersection with West 57th Street. Numerous vehicle service stations, car washes, and car rental lots also are found along this stretch.
The West Side Line of the New York Central Railroad once ran along part of Eleventh Avenue, popularly called "Death Avenue".
Points of interest on or within one block of Eleventh Avenue include:
- Abraham Joshua Heschel School (high school division, at 60th Street)
- CBS Broadcast Center (at 57th Street)
- Chelsea Market (between 15th and 16th Streets)
- Chelsea Piers (at 23rd Street and West Side Highway)
- Comedy Central studios of The Colbert Report (on 54th Street off Eleventh Avenue)
- Comedy Central studios of The Daily Show (at [[51st Street)
- Copacabana Nightclub (at 34th Street)
- DeWitt Clinton Park (between 52nd Street and 54th Street)
- The High Line (roughly parallel to Eleventh Avenue from Gansevoort Street to 34th Street)
- The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center (between 34th and 39th Streets)
- Michael J. Quill Bus Depot of the MTA (at 41st Street)
- Straus Park (between 106th and 107th Streets)
