Lexington Avenue (Manhattan)

Lexington Avenue is an avenue on the East Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City that carries southbound one-way traffic from East 131st Street to Gramercy Park at East 21st Street. Along its 5.5 mile (8.9 km), 110-block route, Lexington Avenue runs through Harlem, Carnegie Hill, the Upper East Side, Midtown, and Murray Hill to a point of origin that is centered on Gramercy Park. South of Gramercy Park, the axis continues as Irving Place to East 14th Street.

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Manhattan - New York City - Gramercy Park - Harlem - Carnegie Hill - Upper East Side - Midtown - Murray Hill - Irving Place

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Parallel to Lexington Avenue lie Park Avenue to its west and Third Avenue to its east. New Yorkers often abbreviate Lexington Avenue as "Lex." The avenue is largely commercial at ground level, with offices above. There are clusters of hotels on Lexington Avenue in the "30s" and "40s" (from Lexington's intersection with 30th Street through to its intersection with 49th Street, roughly) and apartment buildings further north.

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Lexington Avenue is named for the 1775 Battle of Lexington, the first battle of the American Revolutionary War.

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Battle of Lexington - American Revolutionary War

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