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	The New Heroes . Meet the New Heroes . Mimi Silbert \| PBS
		Silbert says she has spent her career cultivating a "university of the streets." She calls it a "Harvard for losers," where the students are former pimps, prostitutes, junkies, drug dealers and armed robbers.
		Delancey Street is a place on Manhattan's lower east side where immigrants like her parents came to make a new life for themselves.
		The Delancey Street Foundation is a residential education center where drug addicts, criminals and the homeless learn to lead productive, crime-free lives.
	www.pbs.org /opb/thenewheroes/meet/silbert.html (440 words)

	Delancey Street, Manhattan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Delancey Street is one of the main thoroughfares of Manhattan 's Lower East Side, running east from the Bowery to connect to the Williamsburg Bridge to Brooklyn.
		Delancey Street is considered by many to be the unofficial northern border of Manhattan's Chinatown.
		The street is known as Kenmare Street west of the Bowery.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Delancey_Street,_Manhattan (436 words)

	Delancey Street: New York Songlines
		Delancey Street was originally a lane that ran near the northern edge of the Delancey estate, one of the largest pieces of property on Manhattan, covering what are now some 120 blocks on the Lower East Side between Bowery and the East River.
		The Delanceys, a French Huguenot family that was perhaps the richest in pre-Revolution New York, took the king's side during the conflict and were forced into exile when their side lost.
		Kenmare, the street's name west of the Bowery, is a village in Ireland's County Kerry, and the birthplace of the mother of Big Tim Sullivan, a local Tammany leader.
	home.nyc.rr.com /jkn/nysonglines/delancey.htm (1164 words)

	lowereast
		roughly defined by Houston Street on the north, the East River on the east and south, and by the Manhattan Bridge and the Bowery on the west, known in story and song as a teeming, bustling magnet for immigrants in the 19h and 20th Centuries, actually has a long and varied history.
		Manhattan Street is preserved as a driveway adjacent to PS 188.
		The northern course of Willett Street, above Delancey Street, is presently occupied by the Samuel Gompers Houses.
	www.forgotten-ny.com /streetnecrology/lowereast/lowereast.html (2905 words)

	Lower Manhattan Expressway (I-78 and I-478, unbuilt)
		The first proposal for a controlled-access highway across lower Manhattan appeared in the 1929 Regional Plan Association report, "Plan of New York and Its Environs." As an integral part of the tri-state network of expressways and parkways, the Lower Manhattan Expressway was to connect the Holland Tunnel with Brooklyn.
		Lower Manhattan Crosstown Highway: This is a much-needed crosstown connection between the Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges, and the Holland Tunnel, serving local cross-Manhattan traffic as well as traffic from the bridges and the tunnel.
		The underside of the structure was to allow surface streets to pass under, and accommodate a parking mall with a 48-foot-wide roadway and 12-foot-wide sidewalks on either side.
	www.nycroads.com /roads/lower-manhattan (3556 words)

	Lower Manhattan : News \| Downtown Street Names and the Stories They Tell
		A main Lower Manhattan cross street, it was named in honor of Robert Fulton and his landmark steamship, the Clermont, which made the first successful steam-powered voyage up the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan to Albany in August 1807.
		Serving as the street of residence for Trinity Church's very first rectors in the 1700s, Rector Street was named in their honor.
		This short street was once a road leading to the hospital located in the area presently bounded by Duane, Broadway, Church, and Worth Streets.
	www.lowermanhattan.info /news/downtown_street_names_and_44900.asp (2993 words)

	Delancey Street (Manhattan) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Delancey Street is one of the main thoroughfares of Manhattan's Lower East Side, running east from the Bowery to connect to the Williamsburg Bridge to Brooklyn.
		The 1988 film Crossing Delancey is a romantic comedy focusing on the different shades of urban life in the area.
		"Chrystie Delancey" is thought to be a woman's name by several characters in the 2000 film Happy Accidents, starring Vincent D'Onofrio and Marisa Tomei, until it is revealed to be a reference to the corner of Chrystie and Delancey streets.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Delancey_Street_(Manhattan) (505 words)

	LOMEX Virtual Tour
		Delancey Street also becomes significantly smaller in width after it turns in to Kenmare Street.
		Broome Street is one of the few streets in this area that runs the from the Holland Tunnel to the Williamsburg Bridge.
		Good question, but unlike the Delancey Street ROW alignment theory, this one is a little tougher to answer.
	www.oldnyc.com /lomex/delancey_canal/delancey_canal2.html (1480 words)

	Where Cars Are On Crash Course, The New York Post, February 22, 2000
		Topping the list obtained by The Post is the corner of 59th Street and Second Avenue in Manhattan, at the foot of the 59th Street Bridge.
		Kaehny said the corner of Second Avenue and 59th Street is a volatile mixture that combines motorists frustrated after sitting in bridge traffic with inadequate safety for pedestrians.
		Manhattan accounted for 15 of the city's worst intersections last year, compared with six in 1998.
	www.transalt.org /press/media/2000/000222nypost.html (637 words)

	Where do New York City street names come from? Here's the answer.
		Canal Street: Located in the “Little Italy” section of Manhattan, Canal Street got its name from a canal that was built in the beginning of the 19th century to drain heavily polluted ponds.
		Delancey Street: This was another street named after a man named Delancey who once owned a farm on the street in the early colonial days.
		Wall Street: The famous home of the New York Stock Exchange and other financial institutes was named after, believe it or not, a wall built by the Dutch in the 1600s around Manhattan Island to keep out invaders.
	www.inetours.com /New_York/Pages/NYC_Streets.html (621 words)

	Manhattan Chamber of Commerce - New York City, New York Chamber of Commerce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Other commercial sections in the area are Chinatown along Canal Street east of Lafayette, the Lower East Side along Delancey Street east of Bowery, and Little Italy centered on Mulberry Street north of Canal.
		Midtown South is the area between Houston Street in the south and 34th Street in the north.
		Manhattan above 59th Street is predominantly residential and includes the Upper East and West Sides, Columbia University at West 115th Street, Harlem begins at 125th Streets and extends up to 175th Street.
	www.manhattancc.org /resources/bizhoods.cfm (726 words)

	City as Home - New York Times
		A densely populated, 22-square-mile island nestled between the Hudson and East Rivers, Manhattan is home to some of the world’s most recognizable icons, from the silvery needle of the Empire State Building to the verdant torch of the Statue of Liberty.
		Blue, a new, 16-story condominium at 105 Norfolk Street is under construction and is one of the first luxury buildings to rise in the area, on the former parking lot belonging to Ratner’s, the renowned kosher restaurant.
		The South Street Seaport Museum (12 Fulton Street), which aims to trace the history of the Port of New York, is a ship-lover’s delight.
	www.nytimes.com /ref/realestate/greathomes/GH-manhattan.html (4087 words)

	Directions: Manhattan Center: Adelphi University
		The Manhattan Center is located at 75 Varick Street, Second Floor, New York, NY, at the intersection of Varick and Canal Streets.
		The main entrance is one block north of Canal Street on the west side of Varick Street at the intersection with Grand Street.
		If you are crossing Canal Street, take a right at Sixth Avenue and head two blocks uptown (north) until you reach Watts Street (one way heading west) and make a left turn and go one block and make another left onto Varick (one way heading south).
	www.adelphi.edu /manhattan/directions.php (320 words)

	Bowery, Manhattan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Its boundaries are East 4th Street and the East Village to the north, Canal Street and Chinatown to the South, Allen Street and the Lower East Side to the east and Bowery (the street) and Little Italy to the west (citidex.com 2006) (Fodor's 1991).
		Bowery as a street was known as Bowery Lane prior to 1807 (Brown, 1922) and was the road leading to Peter Stuyvesant's farm or bouwerij.
		Major streets that intersect the Bowery include Canal Street, Delancey Street (at which corner the subway station named Bowery is situated), Houston Street, and Bleecker Street.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bowery,_Manhattan (774 words)

	A Guide to Former Street Names in Manhattan
		For example, today's King Street is in the West Village, but prior to 1794 King Street was the name of what we now call Pine Street.
		Until the 1920s there was a Manhattan Street in Harlem and a Manhattan Street on the Lower East Side.
		For example, the vanished streets on the Kips Bay and Stuyvesant farms, though never officially adopted, are named in deeds and leases.
	www.oldstreets.com (672 words)

	Orchard Street (Manhattan) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Orchard Street is a street in Manhattan which covers the eight city blocks between Division Street in Chinatown and East Houston Street on the Lower East Side.
		Orchard Street is often considered the center of the Lower East Side and is lined end to end almost entirely with low-rise tenement building with the iconic brick face and fire escapes.
		The street's past as the heart of the Jewish immigrant experience is captured at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and its centerpiece, the restored 97 Orchard Street tenement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orchard_Street_(Manhattan) (412 words)

	New York, Lower Manhattan
		The Lower East Side is that area of Manhattan bordered by Houston Street in the north, the Bowery in the west, and the East River in the east and south as far as the Brooklyn Bridge.
		The buildings north of the bridge ramp remained until the 1950s when all of the buildings north of Delancey, east of Pitt Street (Avenue C) and south of Houston over to the river were razed and the Samuel Gompers Houses, Masaryk Towers, and Baruch Houses were built in the area.
		This view is of an unknown street running east/west north of the bridge and fairly close to the river.
	www.maggieblanck.com /NewYork/LowerManhattan.html (1902 words)

	Visit the Great Neighborhoods of Lower Manhattan - I LOVE NEW YORK - The Official New York State Tourism Website
		Nestled between the skyscrapers of lower and mid-town Manhattan, the Village is distinguished by its two-story brownstones and winding streets, in stark contrast to the grids of Manhattan.
		Grove Street is known for four adult-oriented piano bars, where the clientele ranges from the conventional to the deliberately outrageous.
		Above street level are galleries prized by artists for the lighting and vast openness.
	www.iloveny.com /travel_ideas/nyc_manhattan_neighborhoods.asp (687 words)

	NYCDOT - Bridges Information
		Swing Bridges are supported on a center pier in the middle of a waterway and are opened by rotating horizontally on wheels riding on a circular track.
		Vertical Lift Bridges are movable bridges having roadways which may be raised in a manner similar to a building elevator by supporting end cables attached to rotating drums in towers on the sides of the stream.
		Today the Carroll Street Bridge in Brooklyn and the Borden Avenue Bridge in Queens are the only remaining examples of this design and continue to provide excellent service.
	www.nyc.gov /html/dot/html/motorist/bridges.html (1169 words)

	Housing First! - Other Housing News
		As Manhattan has been hit by successive waves of economic change, the battle for its psyche has been constant, as have laments over the loss of its artistic soul.
		While Manhattan has always been the nation's commercial center, it has also been arguably the best place for artists or musicians or writers to make their name.
		Rental apartments are about 65 percent of all housing in Manhattan, and of that, nearly 54 percent were rent-stabilized or rent-controlled in 2002, according to the New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey.
	www.housingfirst.net /on2004_05_09_nyt.html (1050 words)

	Eldridge Street Project > Visit Us > Directions
		The Eldridge Street Project is located at 12 Eldridge Street, between Canal and Division Streets in Lower Manhattan.
		Follow signs to Rutgers Street exit (at north end of station); exit and proceed four blocks west on Canal.
		Alternatively, take the Williamsburg Bridge to Delancey Street, take a left on Allen Street, a right on Division, and a right on Eldridge Street.
	www.eldridgestreet.org /visit_us_d.htm (610 words)

	Avenue A/Essex: New York Songlines
		Essex Street, the portion of the avenue below Houston, is named for the English county, like neighboring Norfolk and Suffolk--which is somewhat odd, because several other streets in the neighborhood are named for heroes of the War of 1812, fought against England.
		The fltop in the northwest corner of the park is one of Manhattan's prime skateboarding spots.
		University of the Streets on second floor is a karate school.
	home.nyc.rr.com /jkn/nysonglines/ava.htm (2591 words)

	Where is New York's Music Going? - March 11, 2005 - The New York Sun
		The death toll is sounding for some of downtown Manhattan's most familiar and respected clubs.
		Tonic, the avant-jazz club on Norfolk Street, is staging benefit concerts to raise enough money to stave off eviction.
		The Ludlow Street building occupied for 10 years by Luna Lounge is being torn down to make way for luxury condominiums.
	www.nysun.com /article/10453 (868 words)

	Forsyth Street (Manhattan) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Forsyth Street's southernmost portion, separated from the rest by a one-block interruption north of Canal Street, runs parallel to the Manhattan Bridge in Chinatown.
		The street traverses the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan.
		From south to north, Forsyth Street starts at East Broadway, intersects Berry Street and ends at Canal Street, then continues from Hester Street, intersects Grand Street, Broome Street, Delancey Street, Rivington Street and Stanton Street, and ends at Houston Street.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Forsyth_Street_(Manhattan) (205 words)

	Richard Preston
		It passed underneath a parking lot and then underneath Bowery Street, and headed downtown along the Sara Delano Roosevelt Parkway, a strip of greenery and playgrounds on the Lower East Side.
		He was heading for the Williamsburg Bridge, which rises from Delancey Street, connecting Manhattan with Brooklyn.
		It was the platform of the Essex-Delancey Street subway station, a complicated station at the foot of the Williamsburg Bridge.
	www.richardpreston.net /books/ce_excerpt.html (769 words)

	Streetsblog » New “Shared Lane” Bike Route Design Spotted in Manhattan
		Streetsblog tipster Jason Varone photographed the new, not-yet-finished bike stencils on Clinton Street between Grand and Delancey this morning.
		now that we have specific streets where bikes and cars are supposed to coexist peacefully, i’m afraid that bicyclists will be harassed/ticketed/further ignored/put in greater danger if they ride on a street that isn’t specified as shared lane.
		In response to da’s question: no, bicycles and motor vehicles are not equals on every street in New York state, which has a mandatory bike lane law and keep-right law, with some exceptions.
	www.streetsblog.org /2006/10/10/new-shared-lane-bike-route-design-spotted-on-lower-east-side (1243 words)

	TIME.com: Getting Straight On Delancey Street -- Mar. 19, 1973 -- Page 1
		Calling themselves the Delancey Street Family, these unlikely tenants have formed a new "therapeutic community" that is partly modeled after the well-publicized Synanon program, yet is crucially different from it.
		The name they chose for themselves was inspired by Maher's boyhood on Manhattan's Lower East Side, where, in the 19th century, Delancey Street came to symbolize the self-reliant spirit of Old World immigrants working their way into the mainstream of American life.
		In preparation for opening day later this month, members are honing their skills in the mansion's huge kitchen and candlelit dining room, where an ex-addict maitre d'hotel conducts family members and their guests to small tables, and waitresses serve them elegantly.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,906971,00.html (687 words)

	SEA, Society of the Educational Arts, Inc., New York children theater, New York educational theater, New York bilingual ...
		Teatro SEA is located on Suffolk Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side near the Williamsburg Bridge (between Delancey Street and Rivington Street).
		Take the F train to Delancey Street or J, M, or Z to Essex Street.
		The building is located between Rivington Street and Delancey Street.
	www.sea-ny.org /ArtsInEducation_Directions.html (103 words)

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