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Duffy's Hill is a hill located on Lexington Avenue between 102nd and 103rd Streets in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was named for Michael James Duffy, a Tammany Hall Alderman who spent $250,000 to build 26 rowhouses on the south side of 101st Street between Lexington and Park Avenues in 1894. He continued building between Third Avenue and Lexington Avenue up to 104th Street, a section of the city sometimes known at the time as "Duffyville."〔("Michael J. Duffy Dead" ) ''New York Times'' (January 5, 1903)〕 The hill marked the site of cable car accidents by 1897, as the cars had to quickly accelerate and decelerate at this point.〔("A Cable Car Accident" ) ''New York Times'' (June 4, 1897}〕 The New York Railways Corporation had a 24-hour guard stationed at the base of the hill at 103rd Street by 1937 to watch over streetcar incidents related to the hill. At one time, Lexington Avenue buses would detour onto Park Avenue to avoid the hill〔"Woman is Killed by Bus" ''New York Times'' (January 13, 1937)〕 The National Board of Fire Underwriters noted that Lexington Avenue's grade of 12.6% was the steepest of any "important localit()" in Manhattan.〔National Board of Fire Underwriters "Report on the City of New York" (1905) p.5〕 ==References== Notes 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「Duffy's Hill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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