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Madison Avenue
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Madison Avenue
Phone:
+1 212-861-2055

Address:
c/o Madison Avenue Business Improvement District, 59 East 79 Street, Lower Level, New York City, NY

Madison Avenue is a north-south avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States, that carries northbound one-way traffic. It runs from Madison Square to meet the southbound Harlem River Drive at 142nd Street. In doing so, it passes through Midtown, the Upper East Side , East Harlem, and Harlem. It is named after and arises from Madison Square, which is itself named after James Madison, the fourth President of the United States. Madison Avenue was not part of the original Manhattan street grid established in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, and was carved between Park Avenue and Fifth Avenue in 1836, due to the effort of lawyer and real estate developer Samuel B. Ruggles who had previously purchased and developed New York's Gramercy Park in 1831, who was in part responsible for the development of Union Square, and who also named Lexington Avenue. Since the 1920s, the street's name has been metonymous with the American advertising industry. Therefore, the term Madison Avenue refers specifically to the agencies, and methodology of advertising. Madison Avenue techniques refers, according to William Safire, to the gimmicky, slick use of the communications media to play on emotions.
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