St. Nicholas Avenue is a major street that runs obliquely north-south through several blocks between 111th and 193rd Streets in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The route, which follows a course that is much older than the grid pattern of the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, passes through the neighborhoods of Harlem, Hamilton Heights, and Washington Heights. It is believed to follow the course of an old Indian trail that became an important road in the 17th century between the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam and the British New England Colonies. In the post colonial era, it became the western end of the Boston Post Road. The road became a street when row housing was being built in Harlem during its rapid urban expansion following the end of the American Civil War.
La avenida de San Nicolás (en inglés: Saint Nicholas Avenue) o el bulevar Juan Pablo Duarte (Juan Pablo Duarte boulevard) es una avenida de Nueva York que constituye una de las principales vías de circulación del norte de Manhattan, entre las calles 111 y 193. La avenida atraviesa el barrio de Harlem, y sirve de frontera entre Central Harlem y la West Side of Harlem. Escapando al Grid plan tradicional que ocupa la mayor parte de la isla, la Avenida de San Nicolás se considera como un eje norte/sur. Atraviesa a su vez el barrio de Washington Heights.
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