Was the World Trade Center generally considered to be in Battery Park ?
Is 811 East 69th st. considered Lenox Hill?
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World Trade Center was in the Financial District (also called Wall Street). Batter Park/Battery Park City is on the other side of the highway.
811 E. 69th is, in general, Upper East Side and, more specifically, Lennox Hill.
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No, it was called just by the name WTC. Battery Park itself is several blocks south of its southernmost point and Battery Park City grew up around it, on its landfill, so the WTC never took the name of the neighborhood it had sort-of-created. People still differentiate between the development and the old park with the word “city”.
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I’m not sure, but that seems sort of far east to be Lenox Hill. Sounds like generic Upper East Side–too far north for Turtle Bay, I think, but I really don’t know. I get the impression the Lenox Hill neighborhood is where it’s closer to the Park.
…and specifically the Hospital at 77th street; not sure which came first.
I defer to UES experts, of course. But what would the cross-avenue be? It sounds very far East, practically in the FDR Drive.
Oh yeah, the WTC was a few blocks west of the heart of the financial district but you could certainly call it part of it. However, the complex was so vast and of such diverse function that colloquially everybody just called it by its own name. Sigh.
811?
Are you sure this address really exists? If it did it would put you in the East River or in Astoria, Queens, not Lenox Hill! (Joke.)
Is it one of those fanciful addresses, like Lucy & Ricky’s, which also would have been in the middle of the East River?
The WTC neighborhood used to be Radio Row, but that area got wiped off the map w/ the building of the WTC. The WTC is big enough to be called simply the WTC area.
That’s wacky. 811 E. 69th St. is Hunter College. I thought for sure something around there would be more like … 200 E. 69th St.
Nope. Nevermind. It’s a wraparound glitch of some sort in Yahoo! Maps. 200 E. is actually further east, but when I tried 500 E., it give me the same H.C. location.
I think 811 E. 69th St does not exist.
811 E. 68th (I meant to say 68th, not 69th, but that doesn’t change anything. I’m working on a story, and it would be a lot faster to name the neighborhoods than give the addresses. Saying Harlem or Upper East Side beat the heck out of "the corner of blank and blank. So, what you’re saying is that 811 E. 68th would be REALLY fictional because it would be in the middle of the park or something?
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If you don’t mind me piggybacking here…
Usually whenever I watch a game from Shea Stadium, the location is given as “Flushing, New York.” Now, is Flushing a a neighborhood of NYC, like Bed-Stuy or the Village, or is it a suburb outside of NYC proper? I always wondered if saying NYC had two baseball teams is technically (and quite anally, I admit) incorrect.
No, 811 East 68th Street would be in the East River.
What kind of story? Fiction? Or a nonfiction article?
Queens is a boro of New York City and Flushing is a neighborhood of Queens. Outside of Manhattan, it is more correct to give the neighborhood name as the “city” when addressing an envelope or telling someone your location, rather than saying New York, New York. While technically still in NYC, mail has a better chance of reaching the destination quicker if the neighborhood (or at least the boro) name is used. I am not sure why this is, but it may have something to do with the fact that each NYC boro is its own county and therefore there may be repeating street names and numbers in different areas.
In conclusion, NYC has two baseball teams. One is based in the Flushing neighborhood in Queens and the other is based in the South Bronx.
[Homer Simpson]mmm… Flushing Meadows…[/Homer Simpson]
Some of my mail says I live in Astoria, some of it says I live in Long Island City. Go figure.
I used to live in an apartment building on the corner of Second Avenue and 26th Street in Manhattan. Did I live in Gramercy or Murray Hill?
Prior to 1898, most of the neighborhoods of the North Bronx and Queens were independent cities and villages, as was Brooklyn. Those names are preserved as the “neighborhoods” of the relevant boroughs. Flatbush, Brooklyn Heights, etc., are of course neighborhoods in the former city of Brooklyn now in the Borough of Brooklyn (Kings County), NYC.
But Morrisania, for example, was an actual township, Long Island City was a city, and so on.
Yankee Stadium is in the Concourse Village section of the Bronx. The ‘South Bronx’ is more of a blanket term for urban desolation rather than a seperate neighborhood. (Though there is a section south of the Zoo called Bronx Park South.
As poycarp mentions, many of the neighborhood names were actual municipalites before being incorporated into NYC proper. Flushing, for example, has its own Town Hall. Brooklyn was a seperate city until 1898.