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. East 79th Street stretches from East End Avenue to Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side, where it enters Central Park through Miners' Gate. The 79th Street Transverse crosses Central Park, connecting Hunters Gate at West 81st Street on the Upper West Side to Childrens Gate on East 79th. 79th Street does not exist between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue, due to the superblock occupied by the American Museum of Natural History. West of Columbus Avenue, 79th Street continues and terminates at an exit/entrance ramp for the West Side Highway, under which sit the Boat Basin Cafe and 79th Street Boat Basin.
On the west side, the street is entirely within the boundaries of ZIP Code 10024; on the east side, on July 1, 2007 the Zip Code for this part of the Lennox Hill Post Office Branch changed from 10021 to 10075.
[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 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 the 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, a vital storage part of the Croton Aqueduct of 1842. Water was piped down from Westchester County, 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 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.
