125th Street (Manhattan)

Notable buildings along 125th Street include the Apollo Theater, the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building, the Hotel Theresa, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Mount Morris Bank Building, Harlem Commonwealth Council, the Harlem Children's Zone, the Church of St. Joseph of the Holy Family, and the former West End Theatre, now home to the La Gree Baptist Church.

[1] The western part of the street runs diagonally between the neighborhoods of Manhattanville and Morningside Heights from the northwest from the West Harlem Piers and an interchange with the Henry Hudson Parkway at 130th Street.

[2] A block of the original 125th Street in this area was de-mapped to make the super-blocks where the Grant Houses projects now exist.

Beginning in the late 1990s, many sections of 125th Street have been gentrified and developed with such stores as MAC Cosmetics, Old Navy, H&M, CVS/pharmacy, and Magic Johnson Theaters.

[6] The fault line skims across the top of Central Park and runs to Roosevelt Island to the southeast.

West 125th Street near Broadway , looking west toward the Hudson River . The 125th Street subway station of the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line can be seen overhead.
The world-famous Apollo Theater