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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A thoroughfare extending north to south on Manhattan's East Side. Traditionally associated with luxurious apartment houses, it is now the location of many high-rise commercial buildings.

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  • noun a fashionable residential street in New York City

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Examples

  • The four-story house at 101 East 63rd St. just east of Park Avenue, has a two-car garage, two living rooms, a master bedroom suite, a floating staircase, an interior balcony and three other bedrooms.

    Jet-Setting to a Time Past Josh Barbanel 2011

  • Loews's sedate Manhattan headquarters sits just blocks from Park Avenue, where loss-riddled banks are trying to recover from billions worth of bad decisions.

    Tisch Hews to the Prudent Approach 2008

  • The next day, she was on the scene of this town house near Park Avenue, where she put in a bid.

    Jonathan Newhouse's New House; Tom Wolfe's 80's Pad 1998

  • The next day, she was on the scene of this town house near Park Avenue, where she put in a bid.

    Jonathan Newhouse's New House; Tom Wolfe's 80's Pad 1998

  • In Bloemfontein, more than 140 vehicles drove to Park Avenue police station where a memorandum was handed over to the station commissioner Snr Supt Hendrik Swanepoel.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Monday near Interstate 35 and Park Avenue where police said

    KCTV5.com - News 2010

  • I walked over to St. Bartholomew's church on Park Avenue where I met up with friends and we sat in the church praying, waiting for news, cleaning people off, offering water.

    unknown title 2008

  • In the distance, Park Avenue residents would one day recall hearing the cheers and the unmistakable sounds of Europe’s famed band playing “All of No Man’s Land Is Ours.”

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

  • In the distance, Park Avenue residents would one day recall hearing the cheers and the unmistakable sounds of Europe’s famed band playing “All of No Man’s Land Is Ours.”

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

  • In the distance, Park Avenue residents would one day recall hearing the cheers and the unmistakable sounds of Europe’s famed band playing “All of No Man’s Land Is Ours.”

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

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