Back Second Avenue Catalan Second Avenue (Manhattan) German Segunda Avenida (Manhattan) Spanish Second Avenue Estonian Bigarren etorbidea (Manhattan) Basque Deuxième Avenue French השדרה השנייה HE Second Avenue (Manhattan) ID Second Avenue (Manhattan) Italian 2番街 (マンハッタン) Japanese
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| Owner | City of New York |
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| Maintained by | NYCDOT |
| Length | 6.4 mi (10.3 km)[1] |
| Location | Manhattan, New York City |
| South end | Houston / Chrystie Streets in Lower East Side |
| Major junctions |  NY 25 in East MidtownNY 900G in East Harlem |
| North end |  Harlem River Drive in East Harlem |
| East | First Avenue |
| West | Third Avenue |
| Construction | |
| Commissioned | March 1811 |
Second Avenue is located on the East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan extending from Houston Street at its south end to the Harlem River Drive at 128th Street at its north end. A one-way street, vehicular traffic on Second Avenue runs southbound (downtown) only, except for a one-block segment of the avenue in Harlem. South of Houston Street, the roadway continues as Chrystie Street south to Canal Street.
A bicycle lane runs in the leftmost lane of Second Avenue from 125th to Houston Streets. The section from 55th to 34th Streets closes a gap in the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway.
Second Avenue passes through a number of Manhattan neighborhoods including (from south to north) the Lower East Side, the East Village, Stuyvesant Square, Kips Bay, Tudor City, Turtle Bay, East Midtown, Lenox Hill, Yorkville and Spanish Harlem.[2][3]
- ^ "Second Avenue (Manhattan)" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved September 1, 2015.
- ^ "197-a Plan for the Eastern Section of Community District 6" (PDF). Manhattan Community Board 6. December 2005. p. 27.
The Study Area includes many distinctive urban elements in a densely developed area: the East River waterfront, well known residential enclaves such as Tudor City, Turtle Bay, Beekman Place, and Sutton Place with historic buildings and features, Stuyvesant Square, the United Nations, and other older residential neighborhoods intermixed with more recent apartment towers and superblock housing developments, as well as two massive power plant complexes, several superblocks of hospital facilities, and neighborhood parks.
- ^ Yorkville, Manhattan: Senior Pedestrian Crashes 2001-2006