Vesey Street (Manhattan)

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Vesey Street (looking east) from the Irish Hunger Memorial with the 3rd World Financial Center building (right) and St. Paul's Chapel and 222 Broadway in the background.
14 Vesey Street: New York County Lawyers Association Building
The Old New York Evening Post Building

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

Location and course

Vesey Street runs east-west through Lower Manhattan . Before the World Trade Center was built, it ran from Broadway to the Hudson River . Since 2009 it has been divided into four sections:

  • From Broadway to Church Street for vehicle traffic and pedestrians.
  • From Church Street to West Street as a pedestrian zone. This section was widened by the construction of the World Trade Center and separates the World Trade Center on the south side of the street from the Verizon Building on the north side of the street.
  • In the Battery Park City neighborhood from West Street to North End Avenue for motor vehicle and pedestrian traffic.
  • As a short walk west of North End Avenue to River Terrace and the Irish Hunger Memorial .

Two sections of Vesey Street are connected by a pedestrian bridge that crosses West Street to the World Financial Center . The west end of the street is in the northern part of Battery Park City . East of Broadway, the street is called Ann Street .

Significant buildings

Next to Vesey Street is St. Paul's Chapel , Church Street Station Post Office and the World Trade Center Site . Outstanding buildings are the Art Nouveau Old New York Evening Post Building and the Art Deco Barclay-Vesey Building , which later became the headquarters of Verizon Communications .

history

Vesey Street was named after Reverend William Vesey (1674-1746), the first pastor of the nearby Trinity Church . The supermarket chain A&P had its first store on Vesey Street.

The road has been closed to car traffic since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 . A section of the building that remained after the collapse has been preserved and is known as the Survivors' Staircase . In the area between Church Street and Washington Street is the National September 11 Memorial and Museum .

Local transport

The World Trade Center subway station is accessible from Vesey Street.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Feirstein, Sanna: Naming New York . New York University Press, 2001, p. 30.

Web links

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