| Irving Place | |
 Lexington Avenue seen from the top of the Chrysler Building | |
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| Namesake | Battle of Lexington[1] |
|---|---|
| Maintained by | NYCDOT |
| Length | 5.8 mi (9.3 km)[2][3] |
| Location | Manhattan, New York City, U.S. |
| South end | 14th Street in Gramercy Park |
| Major junctions | Third Avenue Bridge in East Harlem |
| North end | 131st Street in East Harlem |
| East | Third Avenue |
| West | Park Avenue |
| Construction | |
| Commissioned | 1832 |
| Completion | 1836 |
Lexington Avenue, often colloquially abbreviated as "Lex", is an avenue on the East Side of Manhattan in New York City. The avenue carries southbound one-way traffic from East 131st Street to Gramercy Park at East 21st Street. Along its 5.5-mile (8.9-kilometer), 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 from 20th Street to East 14th Street.
Lexington Avenue was not one of the streets included in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 street grid, so the addresses for cross streets do not start at an even hundred number, as they do with avenues that were originally part of the plan.
- ^ Alpern, Andrew (January 1, 1992). Luxury Apartment Houses of Manhattan: An Illustrated History. Courier Corporation. ISBN 9780486273709 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Lexington Avenue" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved September 10, 2015.
- ^ "Irving Place" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved September 10, 2015.