Substation 7
Substation 7 is a traction substation located at 1782 Third Avenue at 99th Street in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan. The Manhattan Railway Company built it next to the Third Avenue El's 99th Street station to electrify the Second, Third and Ninth Avenue elevated lines.Photo: Americasroof, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Building
- Description: traction substation located at 1782 Third Avenue at 99th Street in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan
- Also known as: “IRT Substation #7”
- Address: 1782 3rd Avenue, 10029
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Central Park and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Central Park
Photo: Ed Yourdon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
A vast green swath of open space in the heart of Manhattan, Central Park is a district in its own right, neatly separating the Upper East Side from the Upper West Side, stretching from Midtown at the southern end to Harlem at the north.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Museum
Photo: Jean-Christophe BENOIST, CC BY 3.0.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue between 88th and 89th Streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is situated 3,300 feet southwest of Substation 7.
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Hospital
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Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is one of the oldest and largest teaching hospitals in the United States. It is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, on the eastern border of Central Park, stretching along Madison and Fifth Avenues, between East 98th Street and East 103rd Street. Mount Sinai Medical Center is situated 1,600 feet northwest of Substation 7.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Harlem and Upper East Side.
East Harlem
Neighborhood
Photo: Diensthuber, CC BY 3.0.
East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem or El Barrio, and formerly Italian Harlem, is a neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City, north of the Upper East Side and bounded by 96th Street to the south, Fifth Avenue to the west, and the East and Harlem Rivers to the east and north.
Upper East Side
Photo: Alex Proimos, CC BY 2.0.
The Upper East Side of Manhattan is one of the city's wealthiest districts. Spanning the stretch of island between 59th Street to 96th Street east of Central Park, the neighborhoods of Lenox Hill, Yorkville, and Carnegie Hill are full of luxurious townhouses and apartment buildings on some of the most affluent addresses in New York.
Manhattan Valley
Neighborhood
Manhattan Valley is a neighborhood in the northern part of the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is bounded by West 110th Street to the north, Central Park West to the east, West 96th Street to the south, and Broadway to the west.
Substation 7
- Category: electrical substation
- Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.78715° or 40° 47′ 14″ northLongitude
-73.94838° or 73° 56′ 54″ westElevation
30 feet (9 metres)Height
58 feet (18 metres)Operator
New York City Transit AuthorityOpen location code
87G8Q3P2+VJOpenStreetMap ID
way 266924622OpenStreetMap feature
building=service
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In Other Languages
From Portuguese to Spanish—“Substation 7” goes by many names.
- Portuguese: “Subestação 7”
- Spanish: “Subestación 7”
- Spanish: “Substation 7”
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