Jones Street is a street located in
Greenwich Village
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in the
borough
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History
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of
Manhattan
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in New York City. It runs between
Bleecker Street
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and
West 4th Street. Jones Street is sometimes confused with
Great Jones Street
Great Jones Street is a street in New York City's NoHo district in Manhattan, essentially another name for 3rd Street between Broadway and the Bowery.
The street was named for Samuel Jones, a lawyer who became known as "The Father of The ...
in
NoHo
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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 after Gardner Jones. Today's Great Jones Street was named after
Samuel Jones, a lawyer who revised
New York State
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's statutes in 1789 together with
Richard Varick
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, and became known as "The Father of The New York Bar". He was also the brother-in-law of Gardner Jones.
[Boland Jr., Ed]
"F.Y.I."
''The New York Times
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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.
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In popular culture
The cover photo of the 1963 Bob Dylan
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album, ''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
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'', depicts Dylan and then-girlfriend Suze Rotolo
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walking down the center of Jones Street on a wintry February day.
Movies filmed on Jones Street include '' Cruising'', '' Bullets Over Broadway'', ''Chinese Coffee
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'', ''Whatever Works
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'', '' Addicted to Love'' and ''The Irishman
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''. In ''The Butcher's Wife
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The film concerns a clairvoyant woman (Moore) who thinks that she's met her future husband, whom she has s ...
'', the butcher shop shown is Florence Meat Market at 5 Jones Street. Scenes from the first episode of the sixth season of ''Californication
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'' were filmed on Jones Street. As well, scenes from the fifth episode of Woody Allen's mini-series ''Crisis in Six Scenes
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The series premiered on Amazon Prime Video on Septemb ...
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See also
* Caffe Vivaldi
References
Notes
Bibliography
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External links
Jones Street: A New York Songline
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