Chambers Street is a two-way street in the

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. It runs from River Terrace,

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in the west, past PS 234 (the Independence School), The Borough of Manhattan Community College, and Stuyvesant High School, to the

Manhattan Municipal Building The David N. Dinkins Municipal Building (originally the Municipal Building and later known as the Manhattan Municipal Building) is a 40-story, building at 1 Centre Street, east of Chambers Street, in the Civic Center neighborhood of Manhat ...

at 1 Centre Street in the east. Between

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and Centre Street, Chambers Street forms the northern boundary of the grounds surrounding New York City Hall and the

Tweed Courthouse The Tweed Courthouse (also known as the Old New York County Courthouse) is a historic courthouse building at 52 Chambers Street in the Civic Center of Manhattan in New York City. It was built in the Italianate style with Romanesque Revi ...

. Opposite the Tweed Courthouse sits the

Surrogate's Courthouse The Surrogate's Courthouse (also the Hall of Records and 31 Chambers Street) is a historic building at the northwest corner of Chambers and Centre Streets in the Civic Center of Manhattan in New York City. Completed in 1907, it was desi ...

for Manhattan.

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the Marble Palace, lies west of there, on the north side of Chambers.

History

Chambers Street is named for attorney John Chambers (1710–1764), an important parishioner at Trinity Church in Manhattan, where he was vestryman (1726–1757) and warden (1757–1765) of the church for 38 years, son of William Chambers, and husband of Anna Van Cortlandt. Chambers's nephew was

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. John Murray, Chambers' law partner, has nearby Murray Street named after him. Before 1971, Chambers Street continued east of Centre Street as a street called New Chambers Street, which ran through the Municipal Building's archway. In its final configuration, New Chambers Street carried traffic westbound from the intersection of Park Row, the Brooklyn Bridge off-ramp, and Duane Street. In 1971, the street was closed to make way for the construction of the pedestrian plaza at

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. Duane Street was also closed and the intersection with Park Row was eliminated, with Park Row rerouted underneath the pedestrian plaza. Beginning in 2010, Chambers Street was fully reconstructed. The rebuilding was finished in 2015.

Transportation

The New York City Subway has three stations on Chambers Street: *

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, at Church Street serving the *

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, at Centre Street serving the * Chambers Street (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line), at West Broadway serving the The M22 bus runs the enitre length of the street while the westbound M20 uses the street west of West Broadway.

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Chambers Street: A New York Songline
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