Seventh Avenue

Seventh Avenue – known as Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard north of Central Park – is a major thoroughfare on the West Side of Manhattan. It is southbound below Central Park and a two-way street north of the park. Seventh Avenue originates in the West Village at Clarkson Street, where Varick Street becomes Seventh Avenue South (which becomes Seventh Avenue proper after the road crosses Greenwich Avenue and West 11th Street).

It is interrupted by Central Park between 59th and 110th Streets. South of 14th Street Seventh Avenue is a thoroughfare in the West Village. The now dismantled St. Vincent’s Hospital was a main downtown hospital on Seventh Avenue and 11th Street. Running through the Garment District (stretched from 12th Avenue to 5th Avenue and 34th Street to 39th Street), it is referred to as ‘Fashion Avenue’ due to its role as a center of the garment and fashion industry and the famed fashion designers who established New York as the world fashion capital. 

On it’s route Seventh Avenue pass some famous spots and buildings like Christopher Park, Penn Station and Times Square. It is not as famous as Fifth Avenue but anyway it has frequently played a role in music, movies and books. So it is mentioned in the Simon and Garfunkel song “The Boxer,” in which the protagonist mentions receiving a “come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue.” In the Rolling Stones song “Shattered”, published on the 1978 Some Girls album, Mick Jagger sings “I can’t give it away on Seventh Avenue.” In Dave Gibbons’ “Watching the Watchmen” from 2008, the comics artist speculates that the Gunga Diner, Utopia Cinema, Promethean Cab Co. and Institute for Extraspatial Studies are situated at the intersection of Seventh Avenue and West 31st Street.

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7th Av. & W 12th St., New York, NY

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