overpass between West 116th and 117th Streets]] overpass between West 116th and 117th Streets]]Tenth Avenue / Amsterdam Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It carries uptown (northbound) traffic only south of West 110th Street at the northern edge of Central Park, but is two-way north of it. Tenth Avenue begins at West 13th Street and the West Side Highway in the West Village / Meatpacking District and it runs uptown (northbound) for 47 blocks until its intersection with West 59th Street, where it is resigned (like the other West Side avenues) as Amsterdam Avenue but continues without interruption. As Amsterdam Avenue, the thoroughfare stretches 129 blocks north before reaching Highbridge Park at West 190th Street, where the roadway is briefly renamed as Fort George Avenue before it terminates. The street narrows to one lane in each direction as passes through the campus of Yeshiv