Rua Oscar Freire (in English: Oscar Freire Street) is a tree-lined street stretching from Alameda Casa Branca to Avenida Doutor Arnaldo in the Jardins district of São Paulo. It was named after Oscar Freire de Carvalho, a physician and forensic medicine professor from Bahia, who helped develop the city's first morgue (Instituto Médico Legal). According to Excellence Mystery Shopping International, Rua Oscar Freire is the 8th most luxurious street in the world and second in the Americas behind 5th Avenue in New York.