86th Street (Manhattan)

86th Street

German Broadway
A building at the corner of 86th Street and Lexington Avenue, which has since been demolished
Maintained by	NYCDOT
Length	1.6 mi (2.6 km)[1]
Width	100 feet (30.48 m)
Location	Manhattan
Postal code	10024 (west), 10028 (east)
Coordinates	40°46′40″N 73°57′06″W / 40.777877°N 73.951741°W / 40.777877; -73.951741
West end	Riverside Drive in Upper West Side
East end	East End Avenue in Yorkville
North	87th Street
South	85th Street
Construction
Commissioned	1811

86th Street is a major two-way street in the Upper East Side and Upper West Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It runs in two major sections: between East End and Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side, and between Central Park West and Riverside Drive on the Upper West Side. The western segment feeds into the 86th Street transverse across Central Park, which connects to East 84th and 85th Streets on the eastern side.

On the West Side its continuous cliff-wall of apartment blocks including The Belnord and the Orwell House is broken by two contrasting landmarked churches at prominent corner sites, the Tuscan Renaissance Saints Paul and Andrew United Methodist Church at the corner of West End Avenue, and the rusticated brownstone Romanesque Revival West-Park Presbyterian Church at the corner of Amsterdam Avenue.