page_title: Eighth Avenue (Manhattan)
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Eighth Avenue (Manhattan) / Description
caption_attribution_description: Hearst Tower, New York
context_page_description: Eighth Avenue is a major north–south avenue on the west side of Manhattan in New York City, carrying northbound traffic below 59th Street. While the avenue has different names at different points in Manhattan, it is actually one continuous stretch of road.
context_section_description: Eighth Avenue begins in the West Village neighborhood at Abingdon Square (where Hudson Street becomes Eighth Avenue at an intersection with Bleecker Street) and runs north for 44 blocks through Chelsea, the Garment District, Hell's Kitchen's east end, Midtown and the Broadway theatre district in the eponymous neighborhood, before it finally enters Columbus Circle at 59th Street and becomes Central Park West. North of Frederick Douglass Circle, it resumes its Eighth Avenue designation, but is also known as Frederick Douglass Boulevard. The avenue ends north of 155th Street, and merges into the Harlem River Drive.
  The New York City Subway's IND Eighth Avenue Line, serving the A, ​C, and ​E trains in Lower Manhattan and the A, ​B, ​C, and ​D trains in the Upper West Side, runs under Eighth Avenue.
  MTA Regional Bus Operations primarily operates two bus routes on the avenue. The northbound M20 serves Eighth Avenue between Abingdon Square and Columbus Circle, while the M10 serves the length of Eighth Avenue north of 59th Street in its entirety.
caption: The Hearst Tower at West 57th Street and Eighth Avenue
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