Maiden Lane (Manhattan)
Maiden Lane is an east-west street in the Financial District of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Its eastern terminus is at South Street, near the South Street Seaport. It continues west, terminating at Broadway, near the World Trade Center site.
The street is named after a footpath alongside a pebbly brook that ran from Nassau Street to the East River. The path was called 'Maagde Paetje' which is Dutch for 'Maiden Lane'. The grassy slope of the brook's bank provided an ideal spot for washing and bleaching clothes, a chore assigned primarily to young girls, or maidens, during colonial times. [1]
It is the street referred to in the 1936 American crime film 15 Maiden Lane.
References
- ^ Title=The Street Book: An encyclopedia of Manhattan's Street Names and Their Origins;Author=Henry Moscow;Publisher= Fordham University Press, 1979;Page= 73
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