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Great Jones Street is a street in

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district in

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, essentially another name for 3rd Street between

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and

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. The street was named for Samuel Jones, a lawyer who became known as "The Father of The New York Bar" due to his work on revising New York State's statutes in 1789 along with

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, who had a street in SoHo named after him. Jones was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1796 to 1799, and he also served as the state's first Comptroller., p.56 Jones deeded the site of the street to the city with the stipulation that any street that ran through the property had to be named for him. However, when the street was first created in 1789, the city already had a Jones Street in

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, named for Dr. Gardner Jones, Samuel Jones's brother-in-law.Boland, Ed, Jr
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'' (March 17, 2002). Accessed October 8, 2007. "In 1789 a street was opened there, but New York already had a Jones Street in Greenwich Village. So the new street was named Great Jones Street because it was wider than the norm." The confusion between two streets with the same name was broken when Samuel Jones suggested that ''his'' street be called Great Jones Street. An alternative theory suggests that the street was called "Great" because it was the wider of the two Jones Streets.

Notable residents

* Andrew Morris (politician), Irish politician who lived at 22 Great Jones Street * Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat lived at 57 Great Jones from 1983 to 1988, where he died. The building was owned by

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Enterprise Inc. until 1990. A plaque commemorating Basquiat's life was placed outside the building on July 13, 2016, by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. In the early 1900s, the building hosted the "New Brighton Athletic Club", headquarters of Paul Kelly's Five Points Gang.

In popular culture

* According to the New York ''Daily News'', the verb "Jonesing", a word used to describe an intense craving, originally for a drug, but now extended to everyday use, comes from Great Jones Street, a former junkie hangout, although other explorations into the etymology of the slang expression have been proposed. * Thomas Reichman's documentary film '' Mingus: Charlie Mingus 1968'' contains a scene which shows Mingus' November 1966 eviction from his loft at 5 Great Jones Street, which he had hoped to turn into a music school. The musician's belongings, including his instruments, are shown being hauled away, and Mingus himself is arrested when hypodermic needles are found among his belongings. * In

Don DeLillo Donald Richard DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, sports, the complexities of language, perf ...

's novel '' Great Jones Street'', the main character, Bucky Wunderlick, a "rock star and budding messiah" is "holed up in a crummy room on New York's Great Jones Street until he somehow regains his will to go on." * "Great Jones Street" is a song by the American band

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from their album '' Bewitched''. Dean Wareham, who founded the band, lists DeLillo's book as one of his favorites, and a press release for the band was signed by "Bucky Wunderlick", the main character in the novel. Wareham calls the song "A little tribute" to the novel.Daley, David
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External links

Third Street With Great Jones Street: A New York Songline
– virtual walking tour {{Streets of Manhattan, state=collapsed Streets in Manhattan