Liberty Street (Manhattan)

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Liberty Street is a street in New York City that stretches east-west from the middle of Lower Manhattan almost to the East River. It borders such sites as 28 Liberty Street, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building, Liberty Tower, the Chamber of Commerce Building 140 Broadway, One Liberty Plaza, Liberty Plaza Park, the World Trade Center, Brookfield Place, Gateway Plaza, Liberty Park, and the North Cove Marina. A FDNY Firehouse, Engine Company 10 and Ladder Company 10, is located at 124 Liberty Street, directly across from the World Trade Center.^[1]

History

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Before the American Revolution, Liberty Street was known as Crown Street, which consisted of the present Liberty Street as well as the present Maiden Lane between Liberty and Pearl Streets. Its name was changed to Liberty Street in 1793, with the part east of the junction being added to Maiden Lane.^[2]

Between the 1860s and the 1960s the Central Railroad of New Jersey's main ferry ran from the foot of the street on the Hudson River to Communipaw Terminal in Jersey City.

In the late 1960s, all buildings that ran along the north side of the street from Church Street to West Street were demolished to make way for the World Trade Center.

The western portion of the street was extensively damaged by the September 11 attacks. This section of the road, adjacent to the South Tower of the World Trade Center, was crushed by debris and blanketed with dust and smoke when the building collapsed at 9:59 a.m. The Deutsche Bank Building at 130 Liberty Street sustained heavy damage and was later demolished. Other buildings on Liberty Street were also ravaged by the events. The Burger King on the corner was used as a temporary NYPD headquarters in the days following the attacks. The World Trade Center site has since been redeveloped as the new World Trade Center.

References

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Notes

^ Liberty Street - New York Songlines
^ "streets of new york". oldstreets.com.

External links

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Media related to Liberty Street (Manhattan) at Wikimedia Commons

Streets of Manhattan

North–south

Major avenues	1st Av 2nd Av 3rd Av Lexington Av Park Av Madison Av 5th Av Broadway 6th Av (Av of the Americas) Lenox Av 7th Av (Fashion Av) 8th Av 9th Av 10th Av 11th Av 12th Av
Financial District	South Pearl Broad William Nassau Theatre Alley Whitehall Canyon of Heroes State West
Lower East Side	Allen Pike Baxter Centre Market Pl Bowery Centre Division Chrystie Coenties Slip Eldridge Elizabeth Essex Forsyth Lafayette Doyers Rivington Ludlow Mott Mulberry Orchard Park Row Spring Cherry
Lower West Side	Cortlandt Alley Trinity Pl Church Greenwich Hudson Jones MacDougal Patchin Pl Sullivan Gay Thompson Varick Washington W Broadway LaGuardia Pl Weehawken West Side Hwy Bank 13th Av
East Village / Gramercy	Ave D Ave C Ave B Ave A Asser Levy Pl Shevchenko Pl Irving Pl 4th Av Union Square E Park Av S University Pl Union Square W
Midtown	Beekman Pl Sutton Pl Park Av Viaduct Park Av Tunnel Vanderbilt Av Rockefeller Plz 6½ Av Great White Way Shubert Alley Dyer Av Hudson Blvd
Upper East / Upper West	East End Av York Av Museum Mile East Dr Center Dr West Dr Central Park W Columbus Av Amsterdam Av West End Av Riverside Dr
Harlem / Wash. Hts.	Pleasant Av Lenox Av (Malcolm X Blvd) Powell Blvd Douglass Blvd Morningside Dr Audubon Av St. Nicholas Av (Duarte Blvd) Claremont Av Ft. Washington Av Cabrini Blvd Sylvan Pl Tiemann Pl

East–west

Financial District	Bridge Stone Marketfield Beaver Exchange Pl Wall Albany Liberty Cortlandt St/Wy Maiden La Dey Fulton Vesey Ann
Downtown	Spruce Roosevelt Chambers E Broadway Henry Madison Cherry Worth N Moore Broome Canal Hester Grand Delancey Stanton Houston Vandam Bleecker Bond Great Jones 4th Waverly Pl Washington Square N Astor Pl Washington Mews Stuyvesant Macdougal Alley 8th St. Mark's Pl Greenwich Av Christopher Charles 14th
Midtown	23rd 34th 42nd 45th (George Abbott Way) 47th 50th 51st 52nd (Swing Alley / St of Jazz) 53rd 54th 55th 57th 59th (Central Park S)
Uptown	66th / Peter Jennings Way 72nd 74th 79th 85th 86th 89th 93rd 95th 96th 110th (Cathedral Pkwy / Central Park N) 116th 125th (Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd) 130th (Astor Row) 132nd 133rd 139th (Strivers' Row) 145th 155th Bogardus Pl Dyckman Plaza Lafayette

Intersections

Circles	Columbus Duke Ellington Frederick Douglass
Squares	Chatham Cooper Duarte Duffy Foley Gramercy Park Grand Army Plz Hanover Herald Hudson Jackson Lincoln Madison Mulry Pershing Petrosino Sherman Stuyvesant Times Tompkins Union Verdi Washington Zuccotti Park

Italics indicate streets no longer in existence.
All entries are streets, circles, or squares unless otherwise noted
See also: Manhattan address algorithm

Financial District

Manhattan, New York City

Buildings

West of Broadway/ State Street	1 Broadway 21 West Street 65 Broadway 90 West Street 88 Greenwich Street 94 Greenwich Street 125 Greenwich Street 130 Cedar Street 195 Broadway American Stock Exchange Building Barclay–Vesey Building Bowling Green Offices Building Castle Clinton City Pier A Cunard Building Downtown Athletic Club Empire Building Firehouse, Engine Company 10 and Ladder Company 10 James Watson House New York County Lawyers' Association Building Old New York Evening Post Building Robert and Anne Dickey House St. George's Syrian Catholic Church St. Paul's Chapel St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church Transportation Building Trinity and United States Realty Buildings Trinity Church Trinity Court Building Whitehall Building World Trade Center One 2 3 4 7 Perelman Performing Arts Center St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church Vehicular Security Center Westfield Mall
East of Broadway/ State Street	1 Hanover Square 1 New York Plaza 1 Wall Street 1 Wall Street Court 1 William Street 2 Broadway 2 New York Plaza 5 Beekman Street 14 Wall Street 15 Broad Street 15 William 17 State Street 19 Dutch 20 Exchange Place 23 Wall Street 25 Water Street 26 Broadway 28 Liberty Street 32 Old Slip 37 Wall Street 40 Wall Street 45 Broad Street 48 Wall Street 52 Broadway 55 Broad Street 55 Wall Street 55 Water Street 56 Beaver Street (Delmonico's) 56 Pine Street 60 Wall Street 63 Wall Street 63 Nassau Street 70 Pine Street 75 Wall Street 90–94 Maiden Lane 116 John Street 120 Wall Street 130 William 140 Broadway 150 Nassau Street 161 Maiden Lane 161 Water Street 170–176 John Street 250 Water Street Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House American Bank Note Company Building American Surety Building Bennett Building Broad Exchange Building Chamber of Commerce Building Continental Bank Building Continental Center Corbin Building Down Town Association Equitable Building Excelsior Power Company Building Federal Hall National Memorial Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building Fraunces Tavern Home Insurance Plaza John Street Methodist Church Keuffel & Esser Company Building Lee, Higginson & Company Bank Building Liberty Tower Morse Building New York City Police Museum New York Stock Exchange Building New York Times Building Park Row Building Potter Building
Former buildings	Alexander Macomb House Astor House Barnum's American Museum Blair Building City Hotel City Investing Building Equitable Life Building Gillender Building Gilsey Building Government House Hanover National Building Howard Hotel Kemble Building Knickerbocker Trust Company Building Manhattan Life Insurance Building Mills Building Mortimer Building New York Produce Exchange New York Tribune Building New York World Building Pearl Street Station St. Paul Building Singer Building Stadt Huys Tontine Coffee House Tower Building Western Union Telegraph Building World Trade Center 3 4 5 6 7

Other points of interest

Arts and culture	Charging Bull China Chalet Fearless Girl Four Continents The Sphere Titanic Memorial
Parks and plazas	Austin J. Tobin Plaza‎‎ (former) The Battery Bowling Green Elizabeth H. Berger Plaza Hudson River Park Imagination Playground Liberty Park Louise Nevelson Plaza Queen Elizabeth II September 11th Garden Vietnam Veterans Plaza Zuccotti Park
Food and drink	Brasserie Les Halles China Chalet Crown Shy Delmonico's Fraunces Tavern Rolfe's Chop House Saga The Dead Rabbit

Education

Schools	High School of Economics and Finance Leadership and Public Service High School Léman Manhattan Preparatory School Millennium High School New York Film Academy Pace University Pine Street School New York
Museums	China Institute Federal Hall National Memorial Fraunces Tavern George Gustav Heye Center Mmuseumm Museum of American Finance Museum of Jewish Heritage New York City Police Museum Skyscraper Museum South Street Seaport

Transportation

Public transport	Subway Bowling Green Broad Street Fulton Street Rector St/Greenwich St Rector St/Trinity Pl South Ferry/Whitehall St Wall St/William St Wall St/Broadway WTC Cortlandt PATH World Trade Center Ferries Pier 11/Wall Street South Ferry Battery Maritime Building Whitehall Terminal
Other transport	Downtown Manhattan Heliport Wall Street Skyport
Streets	Albany Beaver Bridge Broad Broadway Church/Trinity Place Cortlandt Dey Exchange Fulton Greenwich John Liberty Maiden Lane Marketfield Nassau Pearl South Spruce State Stone Theatre Alley Vesey/Ann Wall Washington West Whitehall William

See also: Manhattan Community Board 1

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