York Avenue
avenue in Manhattan
York Avenue is a north–south thoroughfare in the Yorkville and Lenox Hill neighborhoods of the East Side of Manhattan, in New York City. York Avenue runs from 59th to 92nd Streets through eastern Lenox Hill and Yorkville on the Upper East Side. South of 59th Street, the avenue turns into Sutton Place, which runs to 57th Street, and Sutton Place South, which runs from 57th to 53rd Street. Addresses on York Avenue are continuous with that of Avenue A in the Alphabet City neighborhood, starting in the 1100 series and rising to the 1700 series.
History
19th century
York Avenue and Sutton Place were both proposed as an addition to the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 for Manhattan, which designated 12 broad north–south avenues running the length of the island. The geography of Manhattan left a large area on the Upper East Side east of First Avenue without a major north–south thoroughfare, so Avenue A was added to compensate. Several disconnected stretches of Avenue A built where space allowed, east of First Avenue.
The section of Avenue A (now York Avenue) from 59th to 60th streets was named "Sutton Place" by 1883. It was named for Effingham B. Sutton, who constructed a group of brownstones between 57th and 58th Streets.
20th century
In 1906, The Rockefeller Institute (the predecessor to The Rockefeller University) moved its laboratories to the site of the former Schermerhorn farm at York Avenue (then called Avenue A) and 66th Street.
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