Lafayette Street (Manhattan)
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Lafayette Street is a city street in New York City's Lower Manhattan. Originally, part of the street was called Elm Street.
The street originates from the intersection of Reade Street and Centre Street in Lower Manhattan; this intersection is one block north of City Hall. The one-way street then runs through, in this geographical order, Chinatown, SoHo, and then Greenwich Village, where it ends between East 9th Street and East 10th Street into Fourth Avenue. A buffered bike lane runs along the left edge. In the 20th century the street became known, along with other notable local streets in the Lower East Side, for housing a poor, artistic population. Later, gentrification all but eliminated the poor from the street.[citation needed]
The IRT Lexington Avenue Line runs under Lafayette Street, with stops at Spring Street, Bleecker Street, and Astor Place.
Distinct landmarks around Lafayette Street include:[1]
- Alamo, a cube-shaped sculpture, around East 8th Street and Astor Place
- The Schermerhorn Building, built by Henry Hardenburgh
- The War Resisters League and the NoHo Star on Bleecker Street;
- The Puck Building on East Houston Street
- The New York City Rescue Mission on White Street
- The Ahrens Building, built by George Henry Griebel, and the City Municipal Court Building on the south side of White Street
- Family Court on Franklin Street
- The Department of Health, Hospitals, & Sanitation on Leonard Street
- Federal Plaza, which includes the Jacob J. Javits Federal Office Building on Worth Street
- Foley Square, a dedication to the Tammany Hall master, "Big Tom" Foley, on Pearl Street
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