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26-677: Erhard Weyhe (1883–1972) established the Weyhe Gallery in 1919. He also operated a bookstore, the Weyhe bookstore, at the same location at 794 Lexington Avenue . Weyhe had immigrated to the United States from England just before the start of World War I . By 1923, he had bought the brownstone building on Lexington Avenue that would house the Gallery until 1994. The Weyhe Gallery published prints singly or in portfolios. It emphasized emerging artists, and it

52-474: A classic American cinematic moment in the 1955 movie The Seven Year Itch in which Marilyn Monroe shot what would become her most famous scene. While standing on a subway grating outside the Loew's Lexington Theatre, her skirt billowed up from the wind underneath. While the footage showing the theatre in the background appeared in the finished film, the footage featuring the subway grate shot on September 15, 1954, on

78-411: A geyser of hot steam up from beneath the avenue at 41st Street, resulting in one death and more than 40 injuries. Lexington Avenue runs one-way southbound for its entire length from 131st Street to 21st Street . Parallel to Lexington Avenue lies Park Avenue to its west and Third Avenue to its east. The avenue is largely commercial at ground level, with offices above. There are clusters of hotels in

104-501: A lawyer and real-estate developer, petitioned the New York State Legislature to approve the creation of a new north–south avenue between the existing Third and Fourth Avenues , between 14th and 30th Streets . Ruggles purchased land in the area and was developing it as a planned community of townhouses around a private park, which he called Gramercy Park . He was also developing property around Union Square and wanted

130-533: 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. Both Lexington Avenue and Irving Place began in 1832 when Samuel Ruggles ,

156-582: The BMT Broadway Line ( N , ​ R , and ​ W trains) at Lexington Avenue/59th Street station . The Lexington Avenue–63rd Street station of the IND and BMT 63rd Street Lines ( F , <F> ​, and Q trains) is also located at Lexington Avenue, but it does not have a direct interchange with the Lexington Avenue Line. Lexington Avenue became part of

182-577: The Battle of Lexington in the American Revolutionary War . In 1899, Lexington Avenue was the location of the first arrest in New York City for speeding when a bicycle patrolman overtook cabdriver Jacob German, who had been racing down the avenue at the "reckless" speed of 12 mph (19 km/h). The portion of Lexington Avenue above East 42nd Street was reconstructed at the same time as

208-662: The East 17th Street/Irving Place Historic District , and 19 Gramercy Park on the corner of 20th Street, part of the Gramercy Park Historic District . Offices located on Irving Place include those of The Nation magazine, the New York branch of AMORC and the Seafarers and International House mission. There are also a number of clinics and official city buildings along the street, including Washington Irving High School and

234-528: The IRT Lexington Avenue Line of the New York City Subway . The widened street and the subway line both opened on July 17, 1918. Portions of the avenue were widened in 1955, which required eminent domain takings of the facades of some structures along Lexington. Lexington Avenue has carried one-way (downtown) traffic since July 17, 1960. The 2007 New York City steam explosion sent

260-786: The Lower East Side . The main north-south expressways servicing the East Side are the Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive and Harlem River Drive , which, for the majority of their length, are separated from the east shore of the island by the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway . The East Side is served by the IRT East Side Line subway, and by many bus lines. 40°45′N 73°59′W  /  40.75°N 73.98°W  / 40.75; -73.98 This article about

286-606: The Metropolitan Museum of Art , called the building "a shrine for modern art," describing "early exhibits of the German Expressionists, of Matisse, of Picasso, of Mexican and African art". Weyhe also published an art magazine, The Checkerboard . The gallery's first director was Carl Zigrosser, who continued in this role until 1940. Erhard Weyhe's daughter, Gertrude Dennis, operated the gallery and book store after his death in 1972 until her death in 2003. At that time,

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312-483: The New York City Subway runs under Lexington Avenue north of 42nd Street (at Grand Central–42nd Street station ) to 125th Street . South of Grand Central, this subway line runs under Park Avenue , Park Avenue South, and Fourth Avenue until Astor Place . The line interchanges with the IND Queens Boulevard Line ( E and ​ M trains) at Lexington Avenue/51st Street station and with

338-663: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation restituted a painting by German Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Artillerymen, 1915. to the heirs of the German Jewish art dealer Alfred Flechtheim . The painting had been consigned to the Wehye by the mother of Kurt Feldhausser. In 2024, the New York Times revealed that a Chagall painting that the Museum of Modern Art had acquired through Weyhe from

364-451: The 30s and 40s, roughly from the avenue's intersection with 30th Street through to its intersection with 49th Street , and apartment buildings farther north. There are numerous structures designated as New York City Landmarks (NYCL), National Historic Landmarks (NHL), and National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on Lexington Avenue. From south to north (in increasing address order), they include: In contrast to Lexington Avenue,

390-568: The Feldhausser estate had been quietly restituted to the heirs of the Matthiesen Gallery, and that the deaccessioning involved a payment of four million dollars to the museum. The painting, Over Vitbesk , had been the object of public provenance research efforts by the museum which had previously stated that the Matthiesen transfer was a repayment for debt, and not related to Nazi persecution of

416-604: The Jews. Lexington Avenue 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

442-754: The New York City establishment closed its doors, and it was relocated to Mount Desert, Maine. Deborah Kiley, Weyhe's granddaughter, is the current owner of the Weyhe Gallery and the book store, Weyhe Art Books. The current incarnation of the Weyhe Gallery maintains collections in the following areas: 19th century European, American Pre-1950, Classic Modernism, and American Regionalism. Among the many artists represented in its collections are John James Audubon , George Grosz , Henri Matisse , Pablo Picasso , Käthe Kollwitz , Max Weber , Raoul Dufy , Diego Rivera , Levon West , Lovis Corinth and Angelo Pinto . The files of

468-465: The Weyhe Gallery from 1919 to 1994 are part of the research collections of the Smithsonian 's Archives of American Art. In 2015 the Museum of Modern Art in New York restituted “Sand Hills” by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , to the heirs of Max Fischer. MoMa had acquired the painting in 1949 from the Weyhe Gallery which had it on consignment from the estate of Nazi party member, Kurt Feldhausser. In 2018

494-487: The avenue are the large apartment buildings which line the street from Gramercy Park to 17th Street . Also at 17th, a small bed-and-breakfast, the Inn at Irving Place, occupies two Greek Revival architecture townhouses built in 1840–1841 and renovated between 1991 and 1995. Historically and architecturally significant are 47 and 49 Irving Place—the latter where Washington Irving is said to have lived, but did not —which are part of

520-557: The corner of Lexington Avenue and 51st Street , was more of a publicity stunt; retakes were shot on a studio soundstage, and shots from both are seen in the film. This street was also featured in the film 1408 . The street is referenced in the Elton John song " Island Girl ", the first single from the album Rock of the Westies in 1976. Notes Further reading East Side (Manhattan) The East Side of Manhattan refers to

546-492: The east. An assortment of restaurants and bars line Irving Place, including Pete's Tavern , New York's oldest surviving saloon, where O. Henry supposedly conceived of his short story " The Gift of the Magi ", and which survived Prohibition disguised as a flower shop. Irving Plaza , on East 15th Street and Irving, hosts numerous concerts for both well-known and indie bands and draws a crowd almost every night. Another component of

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572-694: The headquarters of the New York City Human Resources Administration . The bottom of the street is anchored by the rear of the Zeckendorf Towers condominium apartment complex on the west side, and the Consolidated Edison Building on the east. The following buses use Lexington Avenue between the following streets (uptown buses run along Third Avenue): The IRT Lexington Avenue Line ( 4 , ​ 5 , ​ 6 , and <6> trains) of

598-400: The new road to improve the value of these tracts. The legislation was approved, and, as the owner of most of the land along the route of the new street, Ruggles was assessed for the majority of its cost. Ruggles named the southern section, below 20th Street , which opened in 1833, after his friend Washington Irving . The northern section, which opened three years later, in 1836, was named after

624-547: The side of Manhattan which abuts the East River , and faces Brooklyn and Queens , all in New York City . Fifth Avenue , Central Park from 59th to 110th streets, and Broadway below 8th Street separate it from the West Side . The major neighborhoods on the East Side include (from north to south) East Harlem , Yorkville , the Upper East Side , Turtle Bay , Murray Hill , Kips Bay , Gramercy , East Village , and

650-454: The six-block stretch of Irving Place from 14th to 20th Street at Gramercy Park carries two-way traffic and is decidedly local in nature. After the opening of Union Square in 1839, the Irving Place area became one of the most sought-after residential neighborhoods in the city, a situation which was only enhanced by the development of Gramercy Park to the north and Stuyvesant Square to

676-659: Was a prominent institution in the American art world in the first half of the 20th century. Modernist artists were among its early popular exhibitors: Carl Zigrosser , its manager for many years, recalled that patrons like Lewis Mumford , Frank Crowninshield , Alfred Lunt and Jo Mielziner bought books and prints by the gallery's circle of artists, among them Rockwell Kent , Louis Lozowick , Aristide Maillol , Gaston Lachaise , Wanda Gág , J.J. Lankes , John Sloan , Reginald Marsh , Adolf Dehn , and Diego Rivera . In 1991, David Kiehl, associate curator of prints and photographs at

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