93rd Street runs from Riverside Drive, overlooking the Hudson River, to the East River, through the New York City borough of Manhattan. It traverses the neighborhoods of the Upper West Side, Upper East Side, Carnegie Hill, and Yorkville; the street is interrupted by Central Park.

93rd Street

Jeanne d'Arc monument, located at West 93rd Street and Riverside Drive
Maintained by	NYCDOT
Length	1.2 mi[1] (1.9 km)
Width	60 feet (18.29 m)
Location	Manhattan
Postal code	10024 (west), 10128 (east)
Coordinates	40°47′00″N 73°57′03″W
West end	Riverside Drive
East end	First Avenue
North	94th Street
South	93rd Street
Construction
Commissioned	1811

A notable monument to Joan of Arc by Anna Hyatt Huntington stands at the street's western terminus at Riverside Park.

Notable buildings

• Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School
• 161 West 93rd Street, built by the Nippon Club
• The Spence School occupies the former William Goadby and Florence Baker Loew House.
• Congregation Shaare Zedek, in a handsome Neoclassical building from 1922.
• The Joan of Arc Junior High School in a handsome Art Deco building between Amsterdam and Columbus.
• The handsome Gothic Revival Lutheran Church of the Advent, 1900, on the northeast corner of Broadway.
• 75 E 93rd St - Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia - formerly the Francis Palmer House / George F Baker Mansion -- the former mansion of General Winfield Scott was located here as well
• 60 East 93rd Street- Formerly the Virginia Graham Fair Vanderbilt house. The mansion now serves as a gallery for Carlton Hobbs LLC, an antique dealer specializing in fine European furniture and works of art.[2]

The 93rd Street Beautification Association works to preserve and enhance the street where it runs through Carnegie Hill.

Notable residents

• Marx Brothers lived here at 179 East 93rd Street.[3][4]
• Jackie Robinson lived at 33 West 93rd Street for a year and a half in the 1960s.

References

External links

• Joan of Arc - New York City Statues

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