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. It runs from Bleecker Street and West 4th Street. Jones Street is often confused with Great Jones Street in

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, located a little more than a half-mile to the east. What is now Jones Street predates 1789, and was named for Doctor Gardner Jones. Today's Great Jones Street was named for Samuel Jones, a lawyer who revised New York State's statutes in 1789 together with

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, and became known as "The Father of The New York Bar", who was also the brother-in-law of Gardner Jones.Boland Jr., Ed
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'', March 17, 2002. Accessed September 8, 2008. "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." Jones deeded the site of the street to the city under the condition 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," Neither brother-in-law would defer to the other to end the resulting confusion, but Samuel Jones finally ended the argument by suggesting "Then make mine 'Great Jones Street'". An alternative possibility is that Great Jones Street is so named because it is wider than Jones Street.

In popular culture

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'', depicts Dylan and then-girlfriend Suze Rotolo walking down the center of Jones Street on a wintry February day. Movies filmed on Jones Street include '' Cruising'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Inside Llewyn Davis'', '' Addicted to Love'' and ''

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''. In ''

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'', the butcher shop shown is Florence Meat Market at 5 Jones Street. Scenes from the first episode of the sixth season of ''

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'' were filmed on Jones Street as well as scenes from the fifth episode of Woody Allen's mini-series ''

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References

Notes Bibliography * Jones Street Boys were a gang in The Warriors (1979)

External links

Jones Street: A New York Songline
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