86th Street (Manhattan)

It runs in two major sections: between East End and Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side, and between Central Park West and Riverside Drive on the Upper West Side.

On the West Side its continuous cliff-wall of apartment blocks including The Belnord and the Orwell House is broken by two contrasting landmarked churches at prominent corner sites, the Tuscan Renaissance Saints Paul and Andrew United Methodist Church at the corner of West End Avenue, and the rusticated brownstone Romanesque Revival West-Park Presbyterian Church at the corner of Amsterdam Avenue.

[3] The early settlement originally clustered around the 86th Street stop of the New York and Harlem Railroad.

Since the late 1980s, nearly all distinctly German shops have disappeared, apart from a few restaurants on Second Avenue.

The line then turned north and terminated at the Astoria Ferry landing at 92nd Street.

" Blackwells Island , East River , from Eighty Sixth Street", Currier & Ives , 1862: the villa overlooking the river had belonged to John Jacob Astor
The William Starr Miller House , on the corner of Fifth Avenue
The Belnord , on the corner of Amsterdam Avenue
The 86th Street Theatre near Third Avenue has been demolished