Stanton Street is a west-to-east street in the

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, in the neighborhood of the Lower East Side. The street begins at the

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in the west and runs east to a dead end past Pitt Street, adjacent to

Hamilton Fish Park Hamilton Fish Park is a public park in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The park encompasses two blocks bounded by Houston, Pitt, Sheriff, and Stanton Streets. It contains a playground, basketball courts, and a ...

. A shorter section of Stanton Street also exists east of Columbia Street; it was isolated from the remainder of the street in 1959 with the construction of the

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and the Masaryk Towers. Stanton Street largely carries a bike lane, a through lane, and a parking lane. It runs one block north of Rivington Street and one block south of

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. The street is named after George Stanton, an associate of landowner

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Community

The street also includes a

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based on the ideas that

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brought from the settlement movement in

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that won her a

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in 1931. The Stanton Street Settlement, founded in 1999, is active in the community through volunteer work. The site of the second African burial ground in New York lies between Stanton and Rivington Streets, now a playground in the

Sara Delano Roosevelt Park Sara Delano Roosevelt Park is a park in the Lower East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan. The park, named after Sara Roosevelt (1854–1941), the mother of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, stretches north–south along seven blo ...

. The M'Finda Kalunga community garden is also at this location. The Lower East Side, once known for its large Jewish community of German, Eastern European Jews and later by Puerto Ricans before an influx of newer immigrants, is beginning to see a slight resurgence in the Jewish character of the neighborhood, led by the

Stanton Street Synagogue Stanton Street Synagogue, also known as Stanton Street Shul and Congregation Bnai Jacob Anshei Brzezan ( yi, קאנגרעגיישאן בני יעקב אנשי ברזעזאן, "Congregation Sons of Jacob, People of Brzezan"), is a historic synagog ...

, Congregation Bnai Jacob Anshei Brzezan. The Sara D. Roosevelt Park had a service facility at Stanton Street which included a public restroom until 1994, when it was closed.

Notable residents

The street was once home to

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before her rise to fame.

In popular culture

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'' protagonist Henry Morgan and his adopted son lived at Suffolk & Stanton Streets (the actual Louis Zuflacht building at 154 Stanton Street, which for the show was "Abe's Antiques"). The street, crowded, with market goods, is shown in the first popular sound movie "

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" (1927).

References

External links

*http://www.stantonstreet.org *http://stantonstreetshul.com *http://www.vectorcut.com/Diorama
New York Songlines: Stanton Street
a virtual walking tour

- photographs of all storefronts on Stanton St. {{coord, 40, 43, 14.95, N, 73, 59, 11.66, W, region:US, display=title Streets in Manhattan Lower East Side