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#NY #NYC #ParkAvenue is a wide #NewYorkCity boulevard which carries north and southbound traffic in the borough of #Manhattan. For most of the road's length in #Manhattan, it runs parallel to #MadisonAvenue to the west and #LexingtonAvenue to the east. #ParkAvenue's entire length was formerly called #FourthAvenue; the title still applies to the section between the #Bowery and #14th Street. The avenue is called #UnionSquare East between #14th and #17thStreets and #ParkAvenue.

#ParkAvenue was originally known as #FourthAvenue and carried the tracks of the #NewYork and #Harlem Railroad starting in the 1830s. The railroad originally ran through an open cut through Murray Hill, which was covered with grates and grass between 34th and #40thStreet in the early 1850s. A section of this "park" was later renamed #ParkAvenue in 1860, and the name was later applied to the segment between #UnionSquare and #42ndStreet.

The Harlem Railroad was later incorporated into the #NewYork Central Railroad, and a terminal for the #NewYork Central at #42ndStreet, the #GrandCentral Depot, opened in 1871. But the tracks laid to the new terminal proved problematic. There were originally no grade-separated crossings of the railroads between 42nd and #59thStreets. As such, they required railroad crossings along #FourthAvenue, which resulted in frequent accidents; seven people died within 12 days of the #HudsonRiver Railroad's move to #GrandCentral.

In 1872, shortly after the opening of #Grand Central Depot, #NewYork Central owner Cornelius Vanderbilt proposed the #FourthAvenue Improvement Project. The tracks between 48th and #56thStreets were to be moved into a shallow open cut, while the segment between 56th and #97thStreets, which was in a rock cut, would be covered over. After the improvements were completed in 1874, the railroads, approaching #GrandCentral Depot from the north, descended into the #ParkAvenue Tunnel at #96thStreet and continued underground into the new depot. As part of the project, #FourthAvenue was transformed into a boulevard with a median strip that covered the railroad's ventilation grates. Eight footbridges crossed the tracks between 45th and #56thStreets, and there were also vehicular overpasses at 45th and #48thStreets. The boulevard north of #GrandCentral was renamed #Parkavenue in 1888.

A fatal collision between two trains occurred under #ParkAvenue in 1902, in part because the smoke coming from the steam trains obscured the signals. The #NewYork state legislature subsequently passed a law to ban all steam trains in #Manhattan. By December 1902, as part of an agreement with the city, #NewYork Central agreed to put the approach to #GrandCentral Station from 46th to #59thStreets in an open cut under #ParkAvenue, and to upgrade the tracks to accommodate electric trains. Overpasses would be built across the open cut at most of the cross-streets. The new electric-train terminal, #GrandCentral Terminal, was opened in 1913.

After the electric trains were buried underground, the area around #ParkAvenue in the vicinity of #GrandCentral was developed into several blocks worth of prime real estate called Terminal City. Stretching from 42nd to #51stStreets between #Madison and #LexingtonAvenues, it came to include the #ChryslerBuilding and other prestigious office buildings; luxury apartment houses along #ParkAvenue; and an array of high-end hotels that included the Marguery, #ParkLane, and #WaldorfAstoria. In 1929, New York Central built its headquarters in a 34-story building (now called the #HelmsleyBuilding), straddling #ParkAvenue north of the terminal.

The #ParkAvenue Viaduct reroutes #ParkAvenue around #GrandCentralTerminal between 40th and #46thStreets, allowing #ParkAvenue traffic to traverse around the building and over #42ndStreet without encumbering nearby streets. The western (now southbound) leg of the viaduct was completed in 1919, but congestion developed soon after the viaduct's opening, so an eastern leg for northbound traffic was added in 1928.

In 1927, the medians on #ParkAvenue north of #GrandCentral were trimmed to add one lane of traffic in each direction. This project eliminated the pedestrian path on the medians, as they became much narrower. The median was extended by one block from #96thStreet to #97thStreet in 1941, creating the only remaining median on #ParkAvenue with a pedestrian path and seating. In the 1920s the portion of #ParkAvenue from #GrandCentral to #96thStreet saw extensive apartment building construction. This long stretch of the avenue contains some of the most expensive real estate in the world.

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