96th Street (Manhattan)

96th Street
	Crossing First Avenue, looking west
Owner	City of New York
Maintained by	NYCDOT
Length	1.3 mi (2.1 km)
Width	100 feet (30.48 m)
Location	Manhattan
Postal code	10025 (west), 10128 (east)
Coordinates	40°47′39″N 73°58′13″W / 40.794051°N 73.970368°W
West end	NY 9A / Henry Hudson Parkway in Riverside Park
East end	FDR Drive in East Harlem
North	97th Street
South	95th Street
Construction
Commissioned	1811

96th Street is a major two-way street on the Upper East Side and Upper West Side sections of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It runs in two major sections: between FDR Drive and Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side, and between Central Park West and the Henry Hudson Parkway on the Upper West Side. The two segments are connected by the 97th Street transverse across Central Park, which links the disconnected segments of 96th and 97th Streets on each side.

96th Street is one of the 15 hundred-foot-wide (30 m) crosstown streets mapped out in the Commissioner's Plan of 1811 that established the numbered street grid in Manhattan.^[2] On Manhattan's West Side, 96th Street is the northern boundary of the New York City steam system, the largest such system in the world, which pumps 30 billion pounds of steam into 100,000 buildings south of the street.^[3] (The northern boundary on the East Side is 89th Street.^[4])

^ "96th Street" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved January 8, 2017.
^ "Remarks of the Commissioners for Laying out Streets and Roads in the City of New York, under the Act of April 3, 1807" Archived June 10, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, accessed May 2, 2007. "These streets are all sixty feet wide except fifteen, which are one hundred feet wide, viz.: Numbers fourteen, twenty-three, thirty-four, forty-two, fifty-seven, seventy-two, seventy-nine, eighty-six, ninety-six, one hundred and six, one hundred and sixteen, one hundred and twenty-five, one hundred and thirty-five, one hundred and forty-five, and one hundred and fifty-five—the block or space between them being in general about two hundred feet."
^ "Steam" Archived August 13, 2007, at the Wayback Machine Gotham Gazette (November 10, 2003)
^ "Steam Energy" (PDF). Con Edison. Retrieved July 5, 2017.

[google-1] "96th Street" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved January 8, 2017.

[2] "Remarks of the Commissioners for Laying out Streets and Roads in the City of New York, under the Act of April 3, 1807" Archived June 10, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, accessed May 2, 2007. "These streets are all sixty feet wide except fifteen, which are one hundred feet wide, viz.: Numbers fourteen, twenty-three, thirty-four, forty-two, fifty-seven, seventy-two, seventy-nine, eighty-six, ninety-six, one hundred and six, one hundred and sixteen, one hundred and twenty-five, one hundred and thirty-five, one hundred and forty-five, and one hundred and fifty-five—the block or space between them being in general about two hundred feet."

[3] "Steam" Archived August 13, 2007, at the Wayback Machine Gotham Gazette (November 10, 2003)

[4] "Steam Energy" (PDF). Con Edison. Retrieved July 5, 2017.

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