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unusual facts about Sixth Avenue



Booth's Theatre

In 1869, Edwin Booth, then one of the world's most distinguished stage tragedians and arguably America's greatest Hamlet, opened his theatre, Booth's Theatre, in Manhattan on the southeast corner of 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue.

Garbo Talks

Gilbert hires a paparazzo (Howard Da Silva) to show him Garbo's apartment, stakes it out, gets a job delivering food there, seeks her on Fire Island, and tracks her to a Sixth Avenue flea market.

LGBT history in New York

The commemorative march held one year after the riots, organized by the impetus of Craig Rodwell, owner of the Oscar Wilde Bookshop, drew 5,000 marchers up New York City's Sixth Avenue, which drew nationwide publicity and put the Stonewall events on the historical map and led to the modern-day pride marches.


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Booth's Theatre

On April 8, 1868, after the removal of several old structures and blasting out an unexpected "stone ledge" at the corner of Twenty Third and Sixth Avenue, Edwin Booth, after "Masonic observances", laid the cornerstone for his new theatre.

CBS Building

The NBC headquarters—the GE Building in Rockefeller Center, home of NBC News and MSNBC—is located south on Sixth Avenue at 50th Street.

Iowa Highway 965

Sixth Avenue SE, as it is known in Cedar Rapids, intersects Wright Brothers Ave SE, formerly Iowa Highway 84, which connects to The Eastern Iowa Airport.

IRT Sixth Avenue Line

Due to its central location in Manhattan and the inversion of the usual relationship between street noise and height, the Sixth Avenue El attracted artists; in addition to being the subject of several paintings by John French Sloan, it was also painted by Francis Criss and others.

Robert Garrison

These included the three sculprural panels for the RKO Building at the Sixth Avenue entrance of Rockefeller Center in New York City.