The avenue has hosted countless processions, funeral corteges and protest marches, including those by women demanding the right to vote.
As the procession passed along Avenue A, he said, officers prevented people from entering or leaving through some park entrances.
The large procession filled the avenue, prompting the police to shut down traffic, and some groups of demonstrators broke into a run.
According to a translation by Golnaz Esfandiari, who blogs about Iran for the American-financed Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, mourners appear to chant "Oh, Hussein, Mir Hussein!" and "Karroubi and Moussavi must be released!" in a brief clip of the procession along a broad avenue in Isfahan posted on YouTube by a Persian-speaking blogger.
As three women walk in file from a street into their homes in the closing minutes of "Rooms" -- it is a 20-foot stroll that has the majesty of an imperial funeral procession on a grand avenue -- an unspeakable sorrow of hopelessness spreads through the theater like the shadow of death's wings.
The 487th Convocation procession marches down University Avenue to a crowded Rockefeller Chapel.
Instead, the procession will head down Sixth Avenue, also known as the Avenue of the Americas, before culminating at Macy's flagship store on 34th Street.
These fragments, in conjunction with references to the approximate location of church in Byzantine texts concerning the imperial processions on the Mese avenue, allowed a secure identification.
"We used to stand here and wait for a car to come by," said George Robinson, 72, a longtime resident who stood under a mackerel sky in front of the firehouse on Ringwood Avenue to watch the mayor's funeral procession.
The tutorial program plans to hold a vigil for him Tuesday at 5 p.m. at 2050 Second Avenue in East Harlem, followed by a short procession to Mr. Wright's high school.
Avenue Presbyterian Church, followed by a religious procession down Pennsylvania Avenue to Capitol Hill.
