There was a Fitzroy Road that ran northward from Fourteenth Street.

Then, still existing, is Abingdon Square, and Abingdon Road, better known as "Love Lane," was somewhere in the neighbourhood of the present Twenty-first Street.

It is to the past rather than the present that the student of the Avenue turns in contemplating the stretch between Fourteenth and Twenty-second Streets.
Here and there an historical point may be indicated.

On Sixteenth Street, a few yards to the west, is the New York Hospital, the oldest in the city.

It received its charter from George the Third some years before the first gun was fired in the War of the Revolution.