Mulberry Street (Manhattan)
The Mulberry Street is a main thoroughfare in the south of New York City's borough Manhattan , USA .
history
The road can be found on maps of this area at least since 1755. A "bend" ( Mulberry Bend ), which changes the direction of the road, avoided the wetlands around the Collect Pond . This bend was a historic part of the Five Points .
At the time of the American Revolution (second half of the 18th century), the Mulberry Street "Slaughter-house Street" called - after the slaughterhouse (English: slaughterhouse ) by Nicholas Bayard . Until the summer of 1784 it was on the southwest corner of the intersection of Mulberry Street and Bayard Street . Then it had to move to Corlaer's Hook (Crown Point) in the Lower East Side by instruction .
location
Mulberry Street is located in downtown Manhattan between Baxter Street and Mott Street . It runs north to south through the old center of Little Italy . The southern end of Mulberry Street is in Chinatown . Chinese greengrocers, butchers and fishmongers can be found here.
Further south - after Bayard Street - on the west side of the street is Columbus Park , which was laid out in 1897. Chinatown's funeral parlors are on this stretch of road on the east side .
Mulberry Bend
The road was under the mulberry trees (English: mulberry tree ) named that once stood on Mulberry Bend: "Mulberry Bend is a slight bend in Mulberry Street, a turbulent canyon from high rise buildings ... so full of people, is that the swarm of coming and walking from the sidewalk to almost the middle of the street ... The crowds are in the street because much of the sidewalk and gully is occupied by stalls. ”For city reformer Jacob Riis (1849–1914), Mulberry Bend was the epitome the worst slum in town.
Feast of San Gennaro
During the Italian-American Festival Feast of San Gennaro ( Feast of St. Januarius ), held annually since 1926 in September will be blocked the entire street to traffic to make room for the street festival. It's the largest Italian-American festival in New York and possibly the United States.
Significant buildings
The Puck Building is located near the north end of the street on the southwest corner of the intersection with Houston Street . Further south is St. Patrick's Old Cathedral . The Church of the Most Precious Blood at 113 Baxter Street, was built by Italians, which was prohibited as new immigrants, the worship of the Church of the Transfiguration St. and the Old Patrick's Cathedral participate. Below Prince Street (number 247) is the former Ravenite Social Club , where evidence was obtained through telecommunications surveillance that led to the conviction of John Gotti .
media
Mulberry Street has been the subject of books, films, and music: Billy Joel wrote the song Big Man on Mulberry Street , which was released on his album The Bridge (1986). The street is also mentioned in the song Io tengo n'appartamento by Italian singer Renato Carosone , who tells the ancient story of a rich Little Italy singer who misses his hometown, Naples . Old St. Patrick's Cathedral was used as the location for some scenes from the mafia film The Godfather by Francis Ford Coppola with Al Pacino . Also the scene in The Godfather III , in which Michael Corleone is honored by the parish. A scene from the film Hexenkessel took place in the walled churchyard. In 2006 the horror film Mulberry Street was shot.
The street name Mulberry Street in Seuss ' book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street refers to the Mulberry Street in Springfield ( Massachusetts ), the birthplace of the author.
Web links
- New York Songlines: Mulberry Street - A Virtual Walk
- Mulberry Street Facades - Photographs of buildings and shops along Mulberry Street of Chinatown and Little Italy
- Current view at 80 Mulberry Street (Google Maps, Street View) - the same view as in the photo from 1900 (see above)
- “The bend” of Mulberry Street as described in How the Other Half Lives .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Abattoirs; History of New-York Slaughter-Houses - Interesting and Curious Data . (PDF) The New York Times , April 1, 1866
- ^ RK Chin: A Journey Through Chinatown - Mulberry Street . (English)
- ^ Columbus Park New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.Retrieved October 27, 2007
- ^ Mulberry Street, Main Street of Little Italy. New York Songlines (English)
- ↑ Harlan Logan: The Bowery and Bohemia . In: Scribner's Magazine , 15, 1894, p. 458: “ Mulberry Bend is a narrow bend in Mulberry Street, a tortuous ravine of tall tenement-houses… so full of people that the throngs going and coming spread off the sidewalk nearly to the middle of the street ... The crowds are in the street because much of the sidewalk and all of the gutter is taken up with vendors' stands. "
- ^ Max Page: Jacob Riis and the 'leprous houses' of Mulberry Bend . In: The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940 . 2001, p. 73 ff.
- ↑ Billy Joel's discography ( memento of the original dated February 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on billyjoel.com
- ↑ movie-locations.com ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
