Coenties Slip is a small one-way street in Lower Manhattan , New York . The street begins as a left branch from Pearl Street , turns south and ends at Water Street . A little north of Pearl Street is the pedestrian alley of Cuntis-Alley ( English Coenties Alley ). It branches off Pearl Street on the right and ends at William Street .
| Kunti Slip | ||||
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| English Coenties slip | ||||
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| A country | USA | |||
| City | New York | |||
| Underground | Whitehall Street - South Ferry ( N , R ) | |||
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| Borough | Manhattan | |||
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At the intersection of Pearl Street and Kuntis Slip from 1653 (according to other data, from 1642 [1] or 1644) [2] to 1699 there was a city town hall ( English city hall ) [3] [4] }} got its first name - City Hall Lane ( English City Hall Lane [5] ; according to other data - City Hall Slip, English City Hall Slip ). [6] . The current name of the street was in honor of the tanner and shoemaker Kunrat Ten Heck and his wife Antje who lived on it. The street name is a diminutive from the phrase Conraet's and Antje's [7] [4]
At the end of the 17th century, many traders lived on the street and in the surrounding area [5] . According to the data for 1728, there was a fish market on Kuntis Slip, one of the five grocery city markets (the rest were on Broad - and Wall Street , Old Slip and Maiden Lane ). [8] In those years, there was an artificial bay at the southern end of the street. [4] Kuntis-Slip was seriously injured as a result of a major urban fire in December 1835. The street was almost at its epicenter. [9] In the same year, the bay was filled up. [four]
In 1884, a park was laid out on a buried piece of land. It was named Jeannette Park ( Eng. Jeanette Park ) in honor of the ship , who headed the Arctic expedition of 1879-1881. In 1985, the park was dedicated to 250 000 residents of New York, who served in the US armed forces from 1964 to 1975. In 2001, the park was transformed into a memorial complex Vietnam-Veterans Plaza [10] .
The nearest metro station to Kuntes Slip is Whitehall Street - South Ferry ( N , R ) [11] .
Notes
- ↑ Alice Morse Earle. The Stadt Huys of New Amsterdam . - N. Y. , L .: GP Putnam's Sons, 1898. - p. 87. - 443 p. - (Half Moon Series).
- ↑ J. Paulding. Affairs and men of New Amsterdam . - N. Y .: CC Childs, 1843. - p. 61. - 161 p.
- ↑ Kenneth T. Jackson, Lisa Keller, Nancy Flood. The Encyclopedia of New York City / Lisa Keller. - 2. - Yale University Press, 2010. - p. 50. - 1584 p. - ISBN 0300182570 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Moscow, 1990 , p. 40
- ↑ 1 2 Stone Street Historic District (English) (inaccessible link) . nyc.gov (25 July 1996). The date of circulation is June 16, 2013. Archived June 17, 2013.
- ↑ John J. Post. Old streets, roads, lanes, piers and wharves of New York . - N. Y .: RD Cooke, 1882. - p. 10. - 76 p.
- ↑ Sanna Feirstein. Naming New York: Their Names . - NYU Press, 2001. - 207 p. - ISBN 0814727123 .
- ↑ Burrows, Wallace, 2000 , p. 125
- ↑ Burrows, Wallace, 2000 , p. 597.
- ↑ Vietnam Veterans Plaza Highlights (English) . NYC Parks. The date of circulation is June 21, 2013. Archived June 28, 2013.
- ↑ New York City Subway (English) . MTA . The appeal date is September 20, 2018.
Literature
- Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 . - N. Y .: Oxford University Press, 2000. - 1383 p. - (The History of the NYC Series). - ISBN 978-0-19-514049-1 .
- Henry Moscow. The Street Book of The Origins . - 2. - Fordham Univ Press, 1990. - p. 76. - 119 p. - ISBN 0823212750 .