Death Avenue

The High Line was built in the 1930s, as part of a massive public-private infrastructure project called the West Side Improvement. It lifted freight traffic 30 feet in the air, removing dangerous trains from the streets of Manhattan's largest industrial district. So many accidents occurred between freight trains and street-level traffic that 10th Avenue became known as Death Avenue. No trains have run on the High Line since 1980.

http://www.thehighline.org/