Cherry Street , or Cherry Street , is a street in lower Manhattan ( New York ). Initially, it ran from the intersection of Pearl Street from Frankfort Street east to Grand Street (about 2 km). The street is named after a cherry orchard located in this area in the 1660s and once owned by Goovert Loermans, a wealthy Dutch merchant, representative of the Amsterdam trading company Gillis Verbrugg and Company in New Amsterdam .
| Cherry street | ||||
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| English Cherry street | ||||
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| A country | USA | |||
| City | New York | |||
| Area | Lower East Side | |||
| Postcode | and | |||
| Borough | Manhattan | |||
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History
In 1789, George Washington lived in Cherry Street in a house owned by Walter Franklin. In the years 1820-1840, William Tweed was born and lived on Cherry Street. The Cherry Street home owned by Samuel Leggett, founder of Consolidated Edison , was the first gas-fired home. The gas pipe was stretched from Pearl Street .
In the 1930s, the Cherry Street area underwent significant redevelopment. Currently, cooperative houses, state social houses, and the remaining old buildings south of Manhattan Bridge are located on the street.
Literature
- Feirstein, Sanna. Naming New York: Manhattan Places & How They Got Their Names . New York: New York University Press, 2001.
- Plunz, Richard. A History of Housing in New York City . New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.