Grand Street (Manhattan)

Cooperative Village at the east end of Grand Street. The buildings in the foreground were built in 1930 and are some of the oldest housing cooperative houses in the United States.

Kossar's Bialys

The Grand Street is a street in the south of New York City's borough Manhattan , USA .

Location and course

Grand Street runs through Downtown Manhattan in an east-west direction parallel and south of Delancey Street from SoHo via Chinatown , Little Italy and the Lower East Side to the East River .

To the west of Chrystie Street , Grand Street is a one-way street - east of it in both directions. It has an additional bicycle lane.

In the 19th century, before the Williamsburg Bridge was built , the Grand Street Ferry connected Grand Street (Manhattan) to Grand Street ( Brooklyn ).

Buildings along Grand Street

The Cooperative Village extends over several blocks at the south end of Grand Street. Other buildings of note include the old Police Headquarters Building , the Home Savings of America building, and the Bialystoker Synagogue .

Local transport

Grand Street is connected to public transport via the Grand Street subway station (IND Sixth Avenue Line) .

shops

Most of the remaining Jewish-owned shops on the Lower East Side are on Grand Street - such as: B. Kossar's Bialys , East Side Glatt, Moishe's Kosher Bakery or East Broadway Bakery on Grand.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New York city field trip documentation: see here the entries on Grand Street (English)

Web links

• Grand Street storefronts photos of shops and houses along Grand Street
• New York Songlines: Grand Street Virtual Walking Tour

Coordinates: 40 ° 42 ′ 54 "  N , 73 ° 58 ′ 55.2"  W.