[2] In April 2010, the New York City Department of Transportation proposed to add bus rapid transit along the 34th Street corridor.

In August 2012, designer Jeffrey Johnson shot and killed his colleague outside 34th Street and Fifth Avenue.

Until 2017 the southwest corner at Tenth Avenue had McDonald's with a drive-thru and a small parking lot, a rarity in Manhattan.

Further east at Eighth and 33rd, the James Farley Post Office and Penn Station dominate on the south side of the street, serving Amtrak trains to destinations all over the United States and Canada, and Long Island Rail Road and New Jersey Transit trains to suburbs.

Above Penn Station sits Madison Square Garden, which calls itself "the world's most famous arena".

The grand stairs of the James Farley Post Office are built on the scale of the former Penn Station.

The second tallest building in the city, it stands on a rare ledge of solid Manhattan schist dominating the skyline.

At the far end one finds bulky luxury residential buildings and a great number of dogs patronizing the pet care parlors that serve the pure-bred loving populations of Kips Bay, which is the name of both the neighborhood and its eponymous bend in the East River where 34th Street ends.