Chrystie Street
Chrystie Street is a street on
Transportation
A protected two-way bike lane along Chrystie Street was built in 2016, replacing two older bike lanes that wove between the parking and travel lanes in each direction. It also directly connected the bike lanes between Second Avenue and the Manhattan Bridge.[3]
Notable locations
The second African Burying Ground was located on the west side of First (Chrystie) Street, between Stanton and Rivington Streets, extending to the Bowery, after the African Burial Ground near Collect Pond was declared closed in 1794. In the 1820s St Philip's assumed ownership from the City Council, and when the cemetery was closed in 1853, remains were disinterred and removed to Cypress Hills Cemetery.[4]
On June 28, 1776, on the corner of Chrystie and Grand Streets, Thomas Hickey was hung in front of over 20,000 spectators for having participated in a plot to kill George Washington.[5]
From 1847 through 1854, New York's Temple Emanu-El was located at 56 Chrystie Street, the site now part of the Park.[6]
The settlement movement maintained a Settlement House there, where Lee Strasberg first became involved in the theater.[7] Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker Movement continued this concept with one of their hospitality houses there; Michael Harrington frequented it in 1951/52 shortly after he moved to New York.[8]
Dixon Place, a theater that previously occupied several sites in Lower Manhattan since their foundation in 1986, opened on Chrystie Street in 2009.[9]
The cabaret nightclub The Box Manhattan, sister club to The Box Soho in London, is located in Chrystie Street.[10]
In popular culture
Beginning in the early 1960s, "Chrystie Street" was the name of a column in
Chrystie Street appears in "
In the mid seventies, an unrefurbished loft at 195 Chrystie Street became the shared home of Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and David Byrne. This was where they formed and rehearsed the hugely influential rock/pop group Talking Heads.
In the
In
References
- ^ "The Synagogues of New York City". Museum of Family History.
- ^ "Subway Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. September 2021. Retrieved September 17, 2021.
- ^ Hobbs, Allegra (December 21, 2016). "Chrystie Street Protected Bike Lane Is Complete". DNAinfo New York. Archived from the original on 2017-03-14. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
- ^ Jeffreys, D. "About the Garden". M'Finda Kalunga Garden.
- ^ Thompson, Slason; Taylor, Hobart C., eds. (1889). America: A Journal for Americans. Vol. 2. p. 235.
- ^ Wischnitzer, Rachel (1955). Synagogue Architecture in the United States. Jewish Publication Society of America. p. 48.
- Biography.com.
- ^ Isserman, Maurice (February 23, 2015). "Remembering Michael Harrington". Democratic Socialists of America.
- ^ Schonberger, Chris (December 2, 2009). "New venue: Dixon Place finally gets its official grand opening". Time Out.
- ^ Ryzik, Melena (October 28, 2007). "Is the Box Still Edgy?". The New York Times.
- ^ Wilson, Jim (30 September 2021). "Positively Chrystie Street: The Catholic Worker in the Mid-Sixties". Today's American Catholic.
- ^ "The Story of Yo". Spin. 1998.
- ^ "Peter Parker's apartment". On the Set of New York.
- ^ Doorway to Nightmare #1-5; Madame Xanadu (vol. 1) #1
External links
- Media related to Chrystie Street (Manhattan) at Wikimedia Commons