Street · USA
Madison Avenue
Portrait
The advertising agencies that made the name a synonym for the trade have almost all left the avenue, most of them by the 1990s, and the word outlived the industry's address by a generation. What stayed is the retail: the stretch above Sixtieth Street carries the densest run of galleries and luxury shops in the city.
This is a street, not an entry in the atlas. It resolves upward to the city that holds it.