X-Nico

5 unusual facts about Lexington Avenue


Assassination of Meir Kahane

After the assassination, the assassin fled from the hotel and reached Lexington Avenue where, in front of a local post office, he attempted to take over a taxi at gunpoint.

Feature Funnies

Hiring cartoonist Rube Goldberg and Goldberg's assistant, Johnny Devlin, Arnold in mid-1937 began publishing Feature Funnies from his office as at 389 Lexington Avenue in Manhattan.

Lexington Avenue

Ruggles named the southern section, below 20th Street, which opened in 1833, after his friend Washington Irving.

Both Lexington Avenue and Irving Place began in 1832 when Samuel Ruggles, a lawyer and real-estate developer, petitioned the New York State Legislature to approve the creation of a new north/south avenue between the existing Third and Fourth Avenues, between 14th and 30th Streets.

Ralph T. Coe

His lifelong interest in Native American art was sparked serendipitously in 1955, when he happened upon a Northwest coast totem pole standing in a shop on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan.


Armory Show

In February 2009, the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) presented its 21st annual Art Show to benefit the Henry Street Settlement, at the Seventh Regiment Armory, located between 66th and 67th Streets and Park and Lexington Avenues in New York City.

Interchange station

Examples include Kuramae Station of Toei in Tokyo, Japan, Lexington Avenue/59th Street/Lexington Avenue–63rd Street stations in New York City, United States, and Xizhimen, Fuxingmen, Jianguomen and Dongzhimen stations in Beijing, People's Republic of China.

Lexington Avenue bombing

The Lexington Avenue bombing was the July 4, 1914 explosion of a bomb in an apartment at 1626 Lexington Avenue in New York City, killing four people and injuring dozens.

Philip Gengembre Hubert

He moved to New York in 1865 at the end of the American Civil War and became associated with Pirsson to design six, single-family residences on the southwest corner of Lexington Avenue and East 43rd Street.


see also

Kentucky Route 29

The road becomes North Lexington Avenue and runs between Asbury University to the west and Asbury Theological Seminary to the east.

New York State Route 390

From Lexington Avenue, where NY 390 passes into the town of Greece, north to NY 104, NY 390 runs parallel to the western edge of Eastman Business Park, the large production and distribution complex owned and maintained by Eastman Kodak.