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96th Street is a major two-way street in the Upper East Side and Upper West Side sections of the New York City borough of Manhattan, running from the East River at the FDR Drive to the Henry Hudson Parkway at the Hudson River. It is one of the 15 hundred-foot-wide () crosstown streets mapped out in the Commissioner's Plan of 1811 that established the numbered street grid in Manhattan.〔("Remarks of the Commissioners for Laying out Streets and Roads in the City of New York, under the Act of April 3, 1807" ), accessed May 2, 2007. "These streets are all sixty feet wide except fifteen, which are one hundred feet wide, viz.: Numbers fourteen, twenty-three, thirty-four, forty-two, fifty-seven, seventy-two, seventy-nine, eighty-six, ninety-six, one hundred and six, one hundred and sixteen, one hundred and twenty-five, one hundred and thirty-five, one hundred and forty-five, and one hundred and fifty-five—the block or space between them being in general about two hundred feet."〕 East and West 96th Street are separated by Central Park, whose West 96th Street pedestrian gate is called "Gate of all Saints" and whose East 96th Street gate is called "Woodmans Gate". A sunken roadway through the park, often called the 97th Street Transverse road or Transverse Road #4, connects the East and West Sides via 96th and 97th Streets. 96th Street is the northern boundary of the New York City steam system, which pumps 30 billion pounds of steam into 100,000 buildings south of the street, the largest such system in the world.〔("Steam" ) ''Gotham Gazette'' (November 10, 2003)〕 ==East 96th Street== From the FDR Drive to First Avenue, 96th Street is the northern border of Zone A, a flood evacuation zone.〔McKenzie, Trista. ("NYC Evacuation Zones: Bloomberg Orders 'Zone A' Residents to Evacuate" ) All Media NY (October 28, 2012)〕 When Hurricane Sandy hit New York City in 2012, residents on neighboring blocks found out they, too, were in a flood zone, and the city revised its zone borders outward. Residents of the public housing projects as well as high rise apartments in the zone were left without power, although it was restored to most of the area after a day or two. 96th Street rises after Second Avenue, and climbs from Third Avenue to Lexington Avenue – called "Carnegie Hill" – before leveling off at Central Park. The street is the traditional dividing line between Yorkville and the Upper East Side to the south and Spanish Harlem or East Harlem to the north.〔Hinds, Michael DeCourcy. ("Battling to Control E. 96th Growth" ), ''The New York Times'' (May 13, 1984). Accessed December 5, 2007. "'East 96th Street is not just a dead piece of real estate – it is a socially important corridor,' said August Heckscher. 'With El Barrio to the north and Yorkville to the south, it could be the meeting place of two cultures, a river into which both flow.'"〕〔Lee, Denny. ("Neighborhood Report: East Harlem: A 'Museo' Moves Away From Its Barrio Identity" ), ''The New York Times'' (July 21, 2002). Accessed December 5, 2007. "The neighborhood north of East 96th Street is sometimes called East Harlem or Spanish Harlem, but local Puerto Ricans affectionately call it El Barrio."〕 East 96th Street, particularly near Second and Third Avenues, underwent significant gentrification in the late 1980s. By 2005, a wave of speculation for Harlem real estate pushed a corridor of luxury condos and coops up First Avenue from 96th Atreet as well. The construction of a subway along Second Avenue, has disrupted lives and businesses along 96th Street, but its planned opening in 2016 is expected to further increase residential and commercial development in East Harlem, as well as increasing housing value in Yorkville, where the long walk to the subway along Lexington Avenue made commuting more difficult. The Islamic Cultural Center of New York opened at Third Avenue and East 96th Street in 1991. Like all mosques, it is oriented toward Mecca, which required a slight shift in orientation from the neighboring buildings. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「96th Street (Manhattan)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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