Lafayette Street is a one-way street in lower Manhattan .
| Lafayette Street | ||||
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| English Lafayette street | ||||
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| general information | ||||
| A country | USA | |||
| City | New York | |||
| Area | Chinatown , Little Italy , Nolita , Noho | |||
| Length | 2.2 km | |||
| Underground | Channel Street ( 4 , 6 , N , Q ) Spring Street ( 4 , 6 ) Blicker Street ( 4 , 6 ) Astor Place ( 4 , 6 ) | |||
| Name in honor | ||||
| Postcode | , , and | |||
| Borough | Manhattan | |||
| Walkthrough | ||||
Lafayette Street originates from the intersection of Reed and Center Street, passes through Chinatown , Little Italy , the areas of Nolita and Noho and between 9th and 10th streets passes into Park Avenue . A bicycle lane runs along the left lane . South of Spring Street, Lafayette Street is permitted only to the south, to the north, respectively, to the north.
History
In 1804, industrialist John Astor bought a large plot of land in lower Manhattan. In 1825, a street was laid through it, which was a boulevard 100 feet wide (about 30 meters). It originates from Astor Place and ends with Great Jones Street [1] [2] . The street was named Lafayette Place ( English Lafayette Place ) in honor of Gilbert Lafayette , who took an active part in the War of Independence [3] . Sites on both sides of the street were quickly sold out for an amount significantly exceeding their original cost [4] . In 1833, a number of neo - Greek houses were built on the western side of the street. Today they are known as the Colonnade Row and are listed on the US National Register of Historic Places .
Summer Streets
In 2008, the New York City Department of Transportation closed Lafayette Street for car traffic on three Saturdays as part of the Summer Streets program. This program was resumed in 2009. Since 2013, the program has been adopted on an ongoing basis. Closing takes place on the first, second and third Saturdays of every August [5] .
Notes
- ↑ Luther S Harris. Around Washington Square: an illustrated history of Greenwich Village . - JHU Press, 2003 .-- 354 p. - ISBN 080187341X .
- ↑ Rebeccah Welch. New York: A Pictorial Celebration . - Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated, 2007. - 160 p. - ISBN 1402723830 .
- ↑ Henry Moscow. The Street Book: An Encyclopedia of Manhattan's Street Names and Their Origins . - 2. - Fordham Univ Press, 1990 .-- S. 67. - 119 p. - ISBN 0823212750 .
- ↑ Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 . - Oxford University Press, 1998 .-- S. 448. - 1416 p. - (The History of NYC Series). - ISBN 0199741204 .
- ↑ Summer Streets . nyc.gov. Date of treatment February 6, 2018.