The Midtown Book - Madison Avenue(Site not responding. Last check: )
The 43-story 275 MadisonAvenue on the southeast corner at 40th Street, shown at the right, was developed by Alfred B. Jones in 1931 and is notable for the incised fl marble base that is very stylized and refined.
For decades, MadisonAvenue, of course, symbolized the advertising industry and Young and Rubicam was the major tenant at 285 MadisonAvenue on the northeast corner of 40th Street, an impressively stout though uninteresting 25-story masonry office building erected in 1926 for Isaac Harby and designed by William L.
One of the avenue's most notorious buildings is the sliver apartment tower shown at the right that is known as Morgan's Court, because it is half a block south of the Morgan Library on the avenue.
To the south, the bridge was to connect to 138th Street and an enlarged MadisonAvenue in Harlem.
While the MadisonAvenue Bridge was structurally sound, it did not provide enough capacity for the growing traffic needs of upper Manhattan and the Bronx.
The MadisonAvenue Bridge, which today is maintained by the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT), provides two lanes of eastbound and two lanes of westbound traffic between Manhattan and the Bronx.
Madison borders on five other municipalities: the boroughs of Florham Park and Chatham are to the north and east, the townships of Chatham, Harding and Morris are to the south and west.
The area in Madison north of Kings Road was in Hanover Township and the area to the south in Morris Township.
Madison is the home of the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, the Playwright's Theater of New Jersey, the Museum of Early Trades and Crafts, and the Adult School of Chatham, Madison, and Florham Park.
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NYCDOT - Madison Avenue Bridge Over Harlem River(Site not responding. Last check: )
MadisonAvenue is a local street, located between Fifth and ParkAvenues on the east side of Manhattan.
The MadisonAvenue Bridge is a four-lane, four-span swing bridge, carrying traffic between Madison and Fifth Avenues and East 138th Street in Manhattan and East 138th Street and Grand Concourse in the Bronx.
In 1874, residents in the vicinity asked for the construction of a bridge from 1 38th Street (then in Westchester) to MadisonAvenue in New York, and funds were appropriated the following year.
The irony is that he operated as "the guy behind the guy, behind the guy." His desire to avoid press was only interrupted by a well-covered voyage to Paris the paper of record (even then) wrote about as he represented the US on currency valuation agreements.
What we do know is that Ruggles, the founder of MadisonAvenue also co-founded America's first "e-commerce channel." Back then they referred to it as the Erie Canal, the 18th century version of today's broadband.
Then as now, attention and celebrity-hood is fleeting, which is perhaps why he named MadisonAvenue after one of greatest man of letters, who ironically was as shy and wallflowerish as his wife was gregarious.
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Follow MadisonAvenue, passing the intersections of Perry, Lawrence, Decatur, and Bainbridge.
The RSA Union building is the large building with a green roof on the right on the next corner at Union street and MadisonAvenue.
The loading dock entrance is between the Monroe Street parking deck entrance and the RSA Union Building entrance on the south side of the building.
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The Midtown Book: 383 Madison Avenue(Site not responding. Last check: )
The S.O.M. design for 383 Madison is fairly conservative and one could argue that its "pin-stripe" façade patterning is appropriate for an investment banking firm such as Bear Stearns and also a welcome relief from the glass-recladdings of numerous masonry buildings on MadisonAvenue near Grand Central Terminal (see The City Review article).
Certainly abstract beacons are better than corporate initials atop buildings and while MadisonAvenue was once synonymous with the advertising industry, one can be thankful that the "tiara" is not broadcasting "Bear Stearns" and that immense signage is more appropriate to the new glitter of Times Square.
The corporate move of Bear Stearns from ParkAvenue to MadisonAvenue is good for MadisonAvenue and while the building is sedate its beacon will help reinforce the East Side from the dazzle of the West Side's Times Square district.
When Timberland opened their MadisonAvenue store sometime in the 80's it seemed like a good location for an upscale but attainable brand, but as the years wore on, Madison became ever more luxurious, and Timberland broadened their distribution dramatically.
Dolce and Gabbana, however, have a huge 3-level flagship store on MadisonAvenue, but despite spotty reviews for their recent runway shows, the commercial side of their business just keeps growing so they are taking over the building next door for good measure.
Her presence signals the MadisonAvenue debut of Italian Jeweler Pomellato, making this a little pan-European block of gems with the Greek Ilias Lalaounis and the French Chanel Bijoux between 64th and 65th Streets.
Madison Square Garden takes its name from the former location on the north east corner of Madison Square at 26th Street and MadisonAvenue.
When it moved to a new building at 50th Street and Eighth Avenue in 1925 it kept its old name.
The term "MadisonAvenue" serves as a symbol or metaphor for advertising, and MadisonAvenue became identified with the advertising industry after the explosive growth in this area in the 1920s.
Amazon.com: The Polyester Embassy: Music: Madison Avenue(Site not responding. Last check: )
Those who waited a long time to get a copy of MadisonAvenue's "Polyester Embassy's" album will know it was worth the wait once they pop it into their players.
Overall, MadisonAvenue have made an impressive debut in the dance music world, especially in a time where there is major need for artists that can create spectacular music without the need for rap artists contributing their not so required presence in the form of a remix (Can we Say Mariah Carey???).
MadisonAvenue might be one of New York's most fashionable streets, and in the same manner, MadisonAvenue's "Polyester Album" is one of 2000's most stylish, creative, and memorable albums.
