19th Street Ensley
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19th Street Ensley is a street in the Ensley business district. It begins at Avenue B just southeast of U. S. Steel's former Ensley Works and proceeds southeast to Avenue I, then bends to the east and continues to Avenue W just west of I-20/59. The street continues toward downtown Birmingham via Bush Hills as Bush Boulevard/8th Avenue North.
Notable addresses
- former location of TCI Commissary (Ensley).
- 103: former location of Harduvel Bros. restaurant (1910)
- 108: former location of Riverside Cafe (1910)
- 300: former location of the New York Store clothiers (1903)
- 304: former location of Ensley Furniture and Printing Co. (1934)
- 305: former location of Will Black's barber shop (1903)
- 307: former location of the Boston Clothing Store (1903)
- 308: Wallace Lounge
- 324: former location of New Orleans Cafe (1938-1939)
- Avenue D Ensley intersection
- Northwest side
- 400: Cotton's department store (1922-2012), former location of The Bee Hive shoes (1903)
- 404: former location of Goldstein & Cohen dry goods & shoes (1917)
- 406: former location of Ensley Bakery (1903)
- 410: Busch's jewelers, former location of Byrum & Butcher hardware (1903)
- 412: former location of J. S. Hall & Co. shoes (1903)
- 414: Ensley Grill (1930–)
- 418: former location of White Palace Barber Shop (1917)
- Southeast side
- 401: vacant, former location of Vann Bros. furniture (1903)
- 403: vacant
- 405: vacant, former offices of Martin Weinberg
- 408: former location of Fred Kastorff bicycle shop (1903)
- 409: vacant, former location of The Model Grocery (1903), McCrory's department store (1962–), Project Safe (Birmingham Police Department Domestic Violence Unit
- 413: Gilmer Drugs
- 421: former location of Lyons & Co. pool hall (1903)
- 425: Monumental Contracting Services, formerly Bank of Ensley (1917–1929)
- Northwest side
- Avenue E Ensley
- former location of Fossett's Cafe (1903)
- 506: Ellis Flower Shop (1934)
- 508: Ensley Hotel (18877–1910s), Ramsay-McCormack Building (1928–)
- 514: Outlet discount store
- 519: Styles of Today
- 608: Jaynee's Fashions
- 611: A. G. Callins & Associates
- 616: former location of Birmingham Police Department West Precinct (1967-2015)
- Avenue F Ensley: Berney's Drug Store (1898–1959)
- former location of Alex Claiborne blacksmith shop (1903)
- 702: Ideal Furniture
- 717: former location of Ensley Cleaning Works (1917)
- 721: J & D Barber Shop
- 723-725: former location of Dabney Galusha Post 3407, Veterans of Foreign Wars (1953-1961)
- 900: former location of Bondi & Lovoi restaurant (1928)
- 1523: Carter's Barber Shop
- 1915: Holy Family Community Hospital (1946–)
- 2001: Holy Family Cristo Rey High School (1943–)
- Avenue V Ensley: Exxon
- continues as Bush Boulevard