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19-510: The Cleburne Building (also known as 924 West End Avenue ) is an apartment building located at the northeast corner of West End Avenue and West 105th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan , New York City . The Cleburne was completed in 1913 by real estate developer Harry Schiff on the site of the mansion of Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus who perished on the RMS ; Titanic . There

38-482: A number of new car dealerships including: Audi Manhattan, BMW of Manhattan, Cadillac of Manhattan, Chrysler - Dodge - Jeep - Ram Manhattan, Jaguar - Land Rover Manhattan, Lexus of Manhattan, Manhattan Motorcars, Mercedes-Benz Manhattan, Mini of Manhattan, Open Road Volkswagen , Toyota of Manhattan, and Volvo Cars Manhattan. Additionally, numerous vehicle service stations, car washes, and car rental lots are found along this stretch. This area has served

57-539: A sedate Upper West Side residential street ending at Straus Park , 107th Street, and Broadway . Traffic is bidirectional, except for the northernmost block, north of 106th Street . The West Side Line of the New York Central Railroad once had on-street running along part of Eleventh Avenue, which, along with Tenth Avenue , become known as " Death Avenue " because of the large number of deaths that occurred due to train–pedestrian collisions. In 1929,

76-472: Is a memorial to Mr. and Mrs. Straus in nearby Straus Park . The building, which is designed in the Arts and Crafts Movement style, has a handsome porte-cochère . West End Avenue Between 59th and 107th Streets, the avenue is known as West End Avenue . Both West End Avenue and Eleventh Avenue are considered to be part of the same road. Between Gansevoort Street and West 22nd Street, Eleventh Avenue

95-503: Is noteworthy for its almost unbroken street wall of handsome apartment buildings punctuated by brief stretches of nineteenth-century townhouses and several handsome churches and synagogues. Notable architecturally historicist houses of worship include: Among the more notable apartment buildings are: Eleventh Avenue, meanwhile, is lined with new-age residential buildings – such as 100 Eleventh Avenue – adjacent to warehouses and car dealerships . Between 34th and 59th Streets there are

114-485: Is one-way downtown, uptown buses use 12th Avenue. Other bus routes include the following: Notable current and former residents include: Historicism (art) Historicism or historism comprises artistic styles that draw their inspiration from recreating historic styles or imitating the work of historic artists and artisans. This is especially common in architecture, where there are many different styles of Revival architecture , which dominated large buildings in

133-524: Is part of the West Side Highway , a very wide expressway . At a split with Twelfth Avenue/West Side Highway at West 22nd Street , Eleventh Avenue continues as a standard -width avenue. Following the split, Eleventh Avenue is two-way traffic for access to 23rd Street , as well as for 24th Street to access Chelsea Piers . North of 24th Street, Eleventh Avenue is one-way southbound from 24th to 34th Streets , where two-way traffic resumes for access to

152-535: The Lincoln Tunnel . The segment between approximately 39th and 59th Streets is home to the largest concentration of auto dealerships in Manhattan. Eleventh Avenue again becomes one-way southbound between 40th and 57th Streets; two-way traffic resumes north of 57th Street. The portion north of 59th Street is called West End Avenue, which has mixed commercial and residential use. The northern 2 miles (3.2 km) are

171-504: The New York City Subway 's 7 and <7> ​ trains, built as part of the 7 Subway Extension , at a station under the avenue at 34th Street , since September 2015. The New York City Bus 's M12 route serves the portion of 11th Avenue from West 15th to West 24th Streets (uptown) and from West 57th to West 18th Streets (downtown). Plans for the bus route were formulated in early 2014. Where 11th Avenue

190-399: The 1880s as the northern extension of Eleventh Avenue, and was intended to be a commercial street serving the residents of the mansions to be constructed along Riverside Drive . When West End Avenue was named in the 1880s, the Upper West Side was fairly sparsely populated, and that upper portion of the avenue, subsequently, was called the "West End" because of its separation from the core of

209-646: The 19th century. Through a combination of different styles or the implementation of new elements, historicism can create completely different aesthetics than former styles. Thus, it offers a great variety of possible designs. In the history of art , after Neoclassicism which in the Romantic era could itself be considered a historicist movement, the 19th century included a new historicist phase characterized by an interpretation not only of Greek and Roman classicism , but also of succeeding stylistic eras, which were increasingly respected. In particular in architecture and in

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228-526: The avenue from 75th Street through mid-block between 78th and 79th streets, and the east side between 76th and 77th streets are contained within the West End-Collegiate Historic District. Concern over building demolition filings for the demolition of three row houses and a six-story elevator apartment building at the southwest corner of West End Avenue and 86th Street spurred a grassroots effort to seek historic district designation for

247-530: The avenue retains stretches of late nineteenth-century town houses and several handsome churches and synagogues, but is almost entirely made up of handsome residential buildings about twelve stories tall built in the first decades of the twentieth century. The near total absence of retail on that part of the street marks its quiet, residential character, as opposed to the high-traffic, noisy character of Eleventh Avenue. The architecture of buildings on Eleventh and West End Avenues differs significantly. West End Avenue

266-585: The carriage horses live upstairs in their stables while the carriages are parked below on the ground floor. One historic district lies on Eleventh Avenue, the West Chelsea Historic District , designated in 2008. Two segments of West End Avenue lie within designated New York City historic districts: both sides of the avenue from 87th to 94th Street can be found in the Riverside-West End Historic District. The west side of

285-546: The city, the state, and New York Central agreed on the West Side Improvement Project, conceived by Robert Moses , and allocated funds for an elevated railway that would eliminate the grade crossings and alleviate the problems along Tenth and Eleventh Avenues; it also included construction of the West Side Elevated Highway . Meanwhile, the avenue's West End Avenue section was originally created in

304-522: The city. Seeking to distinguish the area from the factories and tenements below 59th Street, a group of real estate developers renamed the northern portions of the West Side's avenues. Portions of both West End Avenue and Eleventh Avenue were run down in the mid-20th century, with single room occupancy hotels, prostitutes and drug addicts a common sight. The city's economic comeback in the 1980s brought recovery and gentrification . The upper portion of

323-559: The entire stretch north of Lincoln Towers from 70th to 107th Street. On March 18, 2009, the West End Avenue Preservation Society formally submitted a request for evaluation to the chair of the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission along with a 260-page survey prepared by Andrew Dolkart . Points of interest on or within one block of Eleventh Avenue include: Points of interest on or within one block of West End Avenue include: Eleventh Avenue has been served by

342-594: The genre of history painting , in which historical subjects were treated with great attention to accurate period detail, the global influence of historicism was especially strong from the 1850s onwards. The change is often related to the rise of the bourgeoisie during and after the Industrial Revolution . By the end of the century, in the fin de siècle , Symbolism and Art Nouveau followed by Expressionism and Modernism acted to make Historicism look outdated, although many large public commissions continued in

361-531: The transport trade for more than a hundred years; most of the stables for New York's remaining horse cabs are located on its side streets, though many now store taxis and pedicabs . It is not uncommon to hear the clip clop of horses in the vicinity, as a result. The carriage horses live in historic stables originally built in the 19th century, but today boast the latest in barn design, such as fans, misting systems, box stalls, and state-of-the-art sprinkler systems. As horses always have in densely populated urban areas,

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