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Gouverneur Street – Abraham Gouverneur, a 17th-century Dutch immigrant turned big-time New York political activist. Great Jones Street – Samuel Jones, "The Father of The New York Bar" Henry Street – Henry Rutgers, American Revolutionary War hero; Houston Street (pronounced / ˈ h aʊ s t ən / HOW-stən) – William Houstoun, Founding Father.
The end of West 10th Street toward the Hudson River was once the home of Newgate Prison, New York City's first prison and the United States' second. Little West 12th Street as viewed from the rooftop of The Standard, High Line. 11th Street is in two parts. It is interrupted by the block containing Grace Church between Broadway and Fourth Avenue.
Manhattan (/ m æ n ˈ h æ t ən, m ə n-/ ⓘ man-HAT-ən, mən-) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the smallest county by area in the U.S. state of New York.
This is a list of neighborhoods in the New York City borough of Manhattan arranged geographically from the north of the island to the south. The following approximate definitions are used: Upper Manhattan is the area above 96th Street. Midtown Manhattan is the area between 34th Street and 59th Street. Lower Manhattan is the area below 14th Street.
Madison Avenue is a north-south avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States, that carries northbound one-way traffic.It runs from Madison Square (at 23rd Street) to meet the southbound Harlem River Drive at 142nd Street, passing through Midtown, the Upper East Side (including Carnegie Hill), East Harlem, and Harlem.
The Wall Street Historic District in New York City includes part of Wall Street and parts of nearby streets in the Financial District in Lower Manhattan. It includes 65 contributing buildings and one contributing structure over a 63-acre (25 ha) listed area.
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Row houses on West 138th Street designed by Bruce Price and Clarence S. Luce (2014) "Walk your horses". David H. King Jr., the developer of what came to be called "Striver's Row", had previously been responsible for building the 1870 Equitable Building, [6] the 1889 New York Times Building, the version of Madison Square Garden designed by Stanford White, and the Statue of Liberty's base. [2]