Named after 86th Street; this stretch is also Isaac Bashevis Singer Boulevard.
West 86th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue was renamed Isaac Bashevis Singer Boulevard in honour of the Nobel Prize-winning author, a former resident. The Commissioners’ Plan of 1811 made 86th Street one of 15 crosstown streets 100 feet wide. Across Central Park, East 86th Street, in once largely German Yorkville, was nicknamed the German Broadway.