Yeshiva Ketana Manh Isaac Rice 346 W89 jeh

Row houses at 89th Street, Manhattan - 2011 jeh

89th Street is a one-way street running westbound from the

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to Riverside Drive, overlooking the

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, in the

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borough A borough is an administrative division in various English-speaking countries. In principle, the term ''borough'' designates a self-governing walled town, although in practice, official use of the term varies widely. History In the Middle Ag ...

Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...

. The street is interrupted by

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. It runs through the

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, Carnegie Hill and Yorkville neighborhoods. The street's western terminal is on Riverside Drive overlooking Riverside Park and the

at the site of the Classical marble Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. The first building on the north side of the street at its western end is 173-175 Riverside Drive, a co-operative apartment building with entrances on both 89th and 90th Streets. On the south side of the street stands the former

Isaac Rice Isaac Leopold Rice (February 22, 1850 – November 2, 1915) was a German-born Jewish American businessman, investor, musicologist, author, and chess patron.

mansion, now Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan and a designated New York City Landmark. The

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, the

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, and the Abraham Joshua Heschel School are all located on 89th Street. The block between Amsterdam Avenue and Columbus Avenue has the old

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, now an extension of the Gaynor School, the

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and the restored 1890s Public School 166, a much admired Collegiate

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building in glazed terra cotta. The block between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West is tree-shaded and lined with beautiful restored town houses. The corner of

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is marked by The St. Urban, an apartment building "splendidly crowned by dome and cupola". To the east of Central Park, the street passes the 89th street facade of the

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in a block of handsome town houses. Between

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and

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is a handsome

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church, built by the Episcopalians in 1870, it became a Reformed Church and is now the Roman Catholic Church of St. Thomas More. The block between

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and

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has a row of "spectacularly romantic" Queen Anne style town houses., p.456 East 89th Street is cosigned as Fred Lebow Place between Fifth and Madison Avenues, honoring the founder of the

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. This block also contains the offices of the New York Road Runners. The street ends at

Carl Schurz Park Carl Schurz Park is a public park in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, named for German-born Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz in 1910, at the edge of what was then the solidly German-American community of Yorkvill ...

on the

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