Delancey Street is a street on the Lower East Side in borough Manhattan , New York .
| Delancy street | ||||
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| English Delancey street | ||||
| general information | ||||
| A country | USA | |||
| City | New York | |||
| Length | 1.58 km | |||
| Underground | Delancey Street / Essex Street ( F , M , J ) Bowery ( J ) | |||
| Postcode | ||||
| Borough | Manhattan | |||
| Walkthrough | ||||
In the west, Delancey Street is bounded by the Bowery ; in the east, it crosses the Williamsburg Bridge . The street has eight lanes with a dividing alley between the directions. West of Bowery, Delancey Street goes into Kenmare Street , also an eight-lane, but without a dividing alley. Kenmar Street continues to Lafayette Street .
The street got its name by the name of , the Acting Governor of New York Province in 1753-1755 and 1758-1760. In 1744, he acquired the site, which subsequently appeared Delancey Street [1] . At the end of the 19th century, the street population was largely represented by the Irish and the Jews . So, on the street there were many signs in Yiddish . Delancy Street together with Allen and Hauston Street formed the red light district in those years, in which many Jewish prostitutes "worked" [2] . The construction of the Williamsburg Bridge in 1903 led to an even greater influx of the Jewish population [3] .
Until the middle of the 20th century, Delancey Street was the trading core of the lower East Side. So, in order to avoid transport collapse due to the increasing number of street vendors' handcarts, the mayor of La Guardia decided in 1930 to open the Essex Street Market [4] . Today, a significant number of African Americans , Puerto Ricans , Dominicans and Chinese live on it.
Due to the large width on the street, car accidents involving pedestrians are not uncommon. For their prevention, Delancey Street is equipped with a significant amount of visual marking facilities [5] .
Delancey Street has the exits of Delancey Street / Essex Street ( F , M , J ) and Bowery ( J ) stations of the New York Metro [6] . As of June 2013, the street was served by bus routes B39, M14D and M21 [7] .
Gallery
Westbound View of Delancey from the intersection with Suffolk Street
Intersection with bowery
Notes
- ↑ Sanna Feirstein. Naming New York: Manhattan Places and How They Got Their Names . - NYU Press, 2001 .-- S. 52. - 207 p. - ISBN 0814727123 .
- ↑ Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 . - N. Y .: Oxford University Press, 2000 .-- S. 1117. - 1383 p. - (The History of NYC Series). - ISBN 978-0-19-514049-1 .
- ↑ Ronald Sanders, Edmund Vincent Gillon. The Lower East Side: A Guide to Its Jewish Past With 99 New Photographs . - Courier Dover Publications, 1979.- S. 42.- 79 p. - (Dover books on New York City). - ISBN 0486137791 .
- ↑ Raven Snook. Parallel Lives: Delancey Street and 125 Street in New York City . New York Magazine . Date of treatment June 13, 2013. Archived June 13, 2013.
- ↑ Sadik-Khan. Delancey Street . nyc.gov. Date of treatment June 13, 2013. Archived June 13, 2013.
- ↑ New York City Subway . MTA . Date of appeal September 20, 2018.
- ↑ Manhattan Bus Map . mta.info. Date of treatment June 12, 2013. Archived June 12, 2013.