High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Eleventh Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare on the far West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, not far from the Hudson River. It carries downtown (south-bound) traffic only, south of West 44th Street, and two-way traffic north of it. Eleventh Avenue originates in the Meatpacking District in the West Village neighborhood, near the corner of West 14th Street, and runs uptown (northward) until its intersection with West 59th Street, where West End Avenue begins. Between West 14th Street and West 23rd Street, Eleventh Avenue is part of the West Side Highway. At West 22nd Street, Twelfth Avenue/West Side Highway begins from a split with Eleventh Avenue.