West 14th Street begins at an interchange with New York State Route 9A northeast of Greenwich Village . At the end of the interchange , it intersects with 10th Avenue . The street continues east , intersecting with Washington Street , Ninth Avenue/Hudson Street , Eighth Avenue , Seventh Avenue , Sixth Avenue , and Fifth Avenue . After Fifth Avenue , West 14th Street becomes East 14th Street and goes on to form the southern border of Union Square between University Place and Fourth Avenue . East of Fourth Avenue , 14th Street forms the southern end of Irving Place , a north-south road that terminates at Gramercy Park . 14th Street then intersects with Third Avenue , which forms the border between the neighborhoods of the East Village to the south and Gramercy to the north . The street goes on to intersect with Second Avenue . At First Avenue , 14th Street widens from a four-lane road to a six-lane divided boulevard with a westbound service road . It then intersects with the main thoroughfares of Alphabet City : Avenue A , Avenue B , and Avenue C , where the street terminates . It formerly terminated at FDR Drive via an on-ramp to the southbound FDR before the September 11 attacks , when the New York Police Department vacated the portion between Avenue C and FDR due to the presence of the nearby ConEdison East River Generating Station along 14th and 15th Streets as a possible terrorist target
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
14th Street (Manhattan)