Hudson Street (Manhattan)
The Hudson Street is a street in the south of New York City's borough Manhattan , USA .
Location and course
The road runs north-south from Tribeca to Greenwich Village and through Hudson Square ( St. John's Park ). Hudson Street has two distinct one-way street sections that meet at Abingdon Square where Eighth Avenue and Bleecker Street intersect.
Hudson Street starts in the south at the intersection of West Broadway and Chambers Street . From here traffic runs north to Abingdon Square. At Abingdon Square this lane will be diverted to Eighth Avenue. Traffic runs south between Abingdon Square and the north end of Hudson Street at 14th Street , as Hudson Street at 14th Street picks up the southbound traffic from Ninth Avenue and continues to Abingdon Square. There the traffic branches off to the south on Bleecker Street . Just south of 14th Street, Hudson Street is also one of the main streets in the Meatpacking District .
Buildings and Institutions
The former New York Mercantile Exchange building is located on the corner of Hudson Street and Harrison Street in TriBeCa. Other prominent buildings on this part of Hudson Street include the Church of St. Luke in the Fields and its gardens, the White Horse Tavern (where the poet Dylan Thomas got drunk and collapsed before dying of alcohol poisoning ), and the studio of the Radio station Hot 97 , where several shootings occurred - including the firefight between the entourage of 50 Cent and the companions of rapper The Game in 2005. The street is also the headquarters of Penguin Books of the Pearson media group in the United States.
traffic
The M20 bus ( MTA New York City Transit Buses ) travels north on Hudson Street between Harrison Street and Abingdon Square and then continues north on Eighth Avenue .
The subway station Christopher Street (PATH station) to the PATH is located at the Christopher Street just west of Hudson Street.
On St. John's Park ( Hudson Square ) near Canal Street , Hudson Street is one of the main feeders to the Holland Tunnel .
In December 2007, a bicycle lane was marked on the roadway connecting a bicycle lane on Ninth Avenue with a bicycle lane on Bleecker Street .
Hudson Street in pop culture
AES Hudson Street was a comedy television program on ABC that aired March 16, 1978 through April 20, 1978.
The participants of MTV's series The Real World: Back to New York (2001) lived in a four-story loft in the 632 Hudson Street.
The Northern Irish duo Agnelli & Nelson released an album in 2000 called Hudson Street .
In the movie Annie , the orphanage Annie came from is the Hudson Street Home for Girls .
Well-known residents
- Writer and activist Jane Jacobs lived at 555 Hudson Street above a candy store. She won her argument with Robert Moses against his efforts to build the Lower Manhattan Expressway , which would have destroyed 14 blocks along Hudson Street in Greenwich Village. She wrote her book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities , in her apartment, describing the daily things that happened outside her window.
- Writer John Cheever lived in a boarding house on Hudson Street in the 1930s.
Web links
- New York Songlines: Hudson Street Virtual Walking Tour
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ben McGrath: Where Hip-Hop Lives: Hot 97's Turf Wars . In: The New Yorker , October 6, 2006. Retrieved May 29, 2010.
- ^ John Leland: Designed to Pry: Building a Better Fishbowl . In: The New York Times , June 21, 2001. Retrieved January 3, 2008.
- ^ Douglas Martin: Jane Jacobs, Social Critic Who Redefined and Championed Cities, Is Dead at 89 . In: The New York Times , April 26, 2006. Retrieved May 4, 2010.
- ↑ John Cheever . In: Answers.com . Retrieved May 3, 2007.