Seventh Avenue—co-named Fashion Avenue in the Garment District and known as Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard north of Central Park—is a thoroughfare on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

The street has two northern termini; an upper level terminates at the western end of the Macombs Dam Bridge, traveling over the Harlem River, where Jerome Avenue commences in the Bronx.

The southern terminus of Seventh Avenue was Eleventh Street in Greenwich Village through the early part of the 20th century.

[3] Extension of the avenue allowed better vehicular connections between midtown Manhattan and the commercial district in what is now TriBeCa.

It also permitted construction of the New York City Subway IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line[4] which opened in 1918.

[5] Extension of the avenue was under consideration for several years, and was approved by the New York City Board of Estimate in September 1911, when the first $3 million appropriation was made for the initial planning of the work.