86th Street (Manhattan)

86th Street is a major two-way street in the Upper East Side and Upper West Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.

On the West Side its continuous cliff-wall of apartment blocks includng The Belnord is broken by two contrasting landmarked churches at prominent corner sites, the Tuscan Renaissance Saints Paul and Andrew United Methodist Church at the corner of West End Avenue, and the rusticated brownstone Romanesque Revival West-Park Presbyterian Church at the corner of Amsterdam Avenue.

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History

Until the years following World War II, Yorkville on the East Side was a predominantly German community, and East 86th Street was nicknamed the German Broadway. The early settlement originally clustered around the 86th Street stop of the New York and Harlem Railroad. Since the late 1980s, nearly all distinctly German shops have disappeared, apart from a few restaurants on Second Avenue. The street was commonly considered a boundary for public utilities. For example, different telephone exchanges at East 79th and 97th Streets served the north and south sides of the street. Local number portability in the early 21st century allowed transferring phone numbers to either side.

A sunken street through Central Park, the 86th Street Transverse or Transverse Road #3, connects to the east side on 84th (eastbound) and 85th (westbound) streets.[1] Miners Gate provides pedestrian access to the park at East 86th, and Mariners Gate at West 85th.

Before the subway opened on Lexington Avenue in 1917, a railroad station existed on Park Avenue, currently a right-of-way for the Metro North Railroad between 125th Street and Grand Central Terminal. Only an emergency exit exists currently.

On the Upper West Side, the street is entirely within the boundaries of ZIP Code 10024; on the east side, it is 10028, though it is bounded immediately northwards by ZIP Code 10128.

Transportation

The M86 bus serves a majority of the street. Until the 1950s, the Second Avenue and Third Avenue elevated lines served 86th Street on the East Side.

It is currently served by three New York City Subway lines:

The Metro-North Railroad has an abandoned underground station at 86th Street and Park Avenue.

Construction

In mid-2006, 12 brownstones on the eastern side of Lexington Avenue between 85th and 86th Streets were torn down to make way for a highrise building with the address 150 East 86th St., that will contain both apartments and over 100,000 ft² of retail space. While not nearly as large or tall, its facade will resemble that of the Time Warner Center in Midtown Manhattan. Its estimated completion is late-2008. As of July 31, 2006, 150 East 86th St. has signed leases for H&M to occupy 30,000 ft²; Barnes and Noble, which currently operates two stores on East 86th Street and within 1,000 feet (300 m) of each other, will consolidate into one store on the site, occupying 50,000 ft².[2]

A similar project, designed by architect Robert A. M. Stern, with roughly half the floor space of the project on Lexington Avenue is underway on Third Avenue.

A new 20 story luxury building went up in 2008 at 535 West End Avenue on the corner of West 86th Street, with whole floor apartment units for sale which waited several years for the price to drop before the real estate moved. [3] Neighborhood complaints by numerous residents of West 86th Street that the entrance garage door of 535 West 86th Street was unsightly, unsafe and in noncompliance (the driveway was built three feet wider than regulations allow, and the unsightly garage door was other than the elegant garage door the architects initially promised) caused the garage door to be removed, and the entrance way boarded up pending redesign, in 2011. [4]

Croton Aqueduct Receiving Reservoir

86th Street was the north end of the Receiving Reservoir, which stored water piped down via the Croton Aqueduct 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 structure 1,826 feet (557 m) long and 836 feet (255 m) wide, and held up to 180 million US gallons (680,000 m3) of water, 35 million US gallons (130,000 m3) flowed into it daily from northern Westchester. The original reservoir was filled in to create the Great Lawn, but the Jacqueline Onassis Reservoir is a part of Central Park, with its southern border near 86th Street.

Notable Residents of East 86th Street

Notable residents of West 86th Street

See also

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External links

Streets and Avenues of Manhattan
North–South
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Italics indicate streets no longer in existence.
See also: Commissioners' Plan of 1811 and List of eponymous streets in New York City.