Division Street is a one-way street in the Two Bridges neighborhood of

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. It carries westbound traffic from the intersection of

Canal Street Canal Street may refer to: Places United Kingdom * Canal Street (Manchester), Manchester, England * Canal Street, Oxford, Jericho, Oxford, England United States * Canal Street (Buffalo), a street and district at the western terminus of the Er ...

and

Ludlow Street Ludlow Street runs between Houston and Division streets on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Vehicular traffic runs south on this one-way street. Name Ludlow Street was named after Lieutenant Augustus Ludlow, the nava ...

westward to

Bowery The Bowery () is a street and neighbourhood, neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City, New York. The street runs from Chatham Square at Park Row (Manhattan), Park Row, Worth Street, and Mott Street in the south to Cooper Square at 4th ...

History

The street dates back to before 1789. Its namesake is the division it marks between the street grid patterns on either side of it. A segment of the

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used to run along Division Street between

and

Allen Street Allen Street is a street in the New York City borough of Manhattan which runs north-south through the Lower Manhattan neighborhood of Chinatown and the Lower East Side. It is continued north of Houston Street as First Avenue. South of Divis ...

. The portion of Division Street under the

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is used for a mall called the East Broadway Mall. There is a

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at Market Street (formerly Florence PlaceFlorence Place, Chinatown
Forgotten NY) and next to it is the PS 124 Yung Wing Elementary School. The school is part of a residential complex called

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. At this point, the street widens. Buses to

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and casinos park on the right side. There used to be a greenmarket until it moved to the space under the Manhattan Bridge on

Forsyth Street Forsyth Street runs from Houston Street south to Henry Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The street was named in 1817 for Lt. Colonel Benjamin Forsyth. Forsyth Street's southernmost portion, south of Canal Street, runs para ...

between Canal Street and Division Street. East of Bowery, there is a statue of

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. At Bowery, most of the traffic gets diverted to the Bowery, Chatham Square, and the Manhattan Bridge.

Points of interest

* Seward Park (on Canal and

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) *

*Agia Barbara (on

) *

Eldridge Street Synagogue The Eldridge Street Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue at 12–16 Eldridge Street in the Chinatown and Lower East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. Built in 1887 for Congregation Kahal Adath Jeshurun, the synagogue ...

(on Eldridge Street) * East Broadway Mall *Imperial

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Studio

References

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20071205042310/http://www.mcny.org/collections/abbott/a111.htm * Streets in Manhattan Chinatown, Manhattan {{NYC-road-stub