High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thirteenth Avenue is a street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, USA, built on landfill in 1837 along the Hudson River, though only a block of it still remains. On an 1891 Bromley map, it is shown heading north from 11th Street to around 29th Street, where it became 12th Avenue. In the early 20th century, New York was looking to build longer piers along the Hudson to accommodate bigger ships such as the RMS Lusitania and the RMS Titanic. However, the United States government, which controls the bulkhead line, refused to allow longer piers to be built.