Grand Street (manhattan)

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Cooperative Village at the eastern end of Grand Street. Amalgamated Dwellings in the foreground, built in 1930, is one of the oldest housing cooperatives in the United States. East Side Glatt can be seen in the picture

Kossar's Bialys

Grand Street is a street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City. It runs east-west parallel to and south of Delancey Street, from Little Italy to the East River. The Cooperative Village covers several blocks in the eastern end of Grand Street. Other notable buildings include the old Police Headquarters Building, the Home Savings of America building and the Bialystoker Synagogue. The street is serviced by the Grand Street (IND Sixth Avenue Line) Subway station.

Most of the remaining Jewish-owned businesses in the Lower East Side are located on Grand Street, including

Kossar's Bialys
East Side Glatt
Moishe's Kosher Bakery
East Broadway Bakery on Grand

History

In the 19th century, before the construction of the Williamsburg Bridge, the Grand Street Ferry connected Grand Street, Manhattan to Grand Street, Brooklyn

Downtown	South St Essex St Orchard St Ludlow St Allen St Forsyth St Pearl St/Bowery Mott St Mulberry St Centre St Lafayette St Broad St Nassau St Broadway West Broadway Patchin Pl Varick St Hudson St Greenwich St Washington St Weehawken St
Midtown	East River Dr/FDR Dr Av D Av C/Loisaida Av Av B/East End Av Av A/Sutton Pl/York Av 1^st Av 2^nd Av 3^rd Av Lexington Av 4^th Av/Park Av Vanderbilt Av Madison Av 5^th Av/Museum Mile 6^th Av/Av of the Americas/Lenox Av/Malcolm X Blvd 7^th Av/Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd 8^th Av/Central Park West/Frederick Douglas Blvd 9^th Av/Columbus Av/Morningside Dr Dyer Av 10^th Av/Amsterdam Av 11^th Av/West End Av Riverside Dr 12^th Av/West Side Hwy 13^th Av Henry Hudson Pkwy
Uptown	Harlem River Dr Audubon Av St. Nicholas Av/Juan Pablo Duarte Blvd Ft Washington Av Cabrini Blvd

East-West

Downtown	Bridge St Wall St Liberty St Fulton St Ann St Park Row Chambers St Cherry St Henry St Worth St East Broadway N. Moore St Beach St Canal St Hester St Grand St Delancey St Rivington St Stanton St Houston St 1-14: (1^st St, Bleecker St, 2^nd St, 3^rd St/Great Jones St, West 4^th St, 6^th St, Waverly Pl/Washington Sq North, Washington Mews, Astor Pl, Gay St, 8^th St/St. Mark's Pl, Christopher St, Stuyvesant St, West 10^th St, 13^th St, 14^th St)
Midtown	15-59: (17^th St, 23-42: (23^rd St, 24^th St, 25^th St, 26^th St, 27^th St/Club Row, 28^th St, 29^th St, 30^th St, 31^st St, 32^nd St/Korea Way, 33^rd St, 34^th St, 35^th St, 36^th St, 37^th St, 38^th St, 39^th St, 40^th St, 41^st St, 42^nd St), 47^th St, 50^th St, 52^nd St, 53^rd St, 57^th St, 59^th St/Central Park South)
Uptown	66^th St 72^nd St 79^th St 85^th St 86^th St 96^th St 110^th St/Central Park North 112^th St 116^th St 118^th St 122^nd St 125^th St Astor Row 132^nd St Trans-Manhattan Expwy 181^st St 187^th St Bogardius Pl Dyckman St Beak St

Lower East Side is a neighborhood in the southeastern part of New York City borough of Manhattan. It has traditionally been an immigrant, working class neighborhood, but it has undergone gentrification in recent years and is increasingly populated by young professionals and
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Manhattan is a borough of New York City, New York, USA, with New York County. With a 2000 population of 1,537,195^[2] living in a land area of 22.96 square miles (59.
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Nickname: The Big Apple, Gotham, The City that Never Sleeps
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Delancey Street is one of the main thoroughfares of Manhattan's Lower East Side, running east from the Bowery to connect to the Williamsburg Bridge to Brooklyn.

Businesses range from delis to check-cashing stores to bars.
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See also: List of Italian-American neighborhoods

Little Italy is a general name for an ethnic enclave populated primarily by Italians or people of Italian ancestry, usually in an urban neighborhood.
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East River is a tidal strait in New York City in the United States. It connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end. It separates Long Island (including the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn) from the island of Manhattan and the Bronx on the
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Amalgamated Dwellings (1930) in the foreground with two of the Hillman Housing buildings (1947-50) behind it. One of the East River Housing towers (1953-56) in the background.
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New York City Police Department

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Established 1845
Jurisdiction Municipal
Sworn 37,838
Stations 98
Police boats 12
Helicopters 25
Commissioner Raymond W.
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H.F. Ahmanson & Co. was a California holding company named after millionaire Howard F. Ahmanson, Sr. It is best known as the parent of Home Savings of America, formerly one of the largest savings and loan associations in the United States.
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Location: 7-11 Willett Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York

Built/Founded: 1826

Architectural style(s): Federal Style
Added to NRHP: April 26, 1972

Governing body: Private synagogue The Bialystoker Synagogue
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New York City Subway station

Station information
Line IND Sixth Avenue Line
Services
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2

Other
Borough Manhattan
Opened November 26, 1967
Next north Broadway–Lafayette Street:
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Kossar's Bialys (Kossar's Bialystoker Kuchen Bakery) on the Lower East Side, Manhattan is the oldest bialy bakery in the United States.^[1]^[2]

Background

The bialy gets its name from the "Bialystoker Kuchen" of Bialystok, Poland.
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For the periodical, see .

The 19th Century (also written XIX century) lasted from 1801 through 1900 in the Gregorian calendar. It is often referred to as the "1800s.
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Williamsburg Bridge is a suspension bridge in New York City across the East River connecting the Lower East Side of Manhattan at Delancey Street with the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn on Long Island at Broadway near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (Interstate 278).
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Grand Street Ferry was a ferry route connecting Manhattan and Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, United States, joining Grand Street (Manhattan) and Grand Street (Brooklyn) across the East River.
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Grand Street is a street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, United States. When it crosses into Queens, it becomes Grand Avenue, continuing to Elmhurst.

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Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. An independent city until its consolidation into New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with nearly 2.5 million residents.
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The Forty-Second Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad was a horse-drawn streetcar line in Manhattan, New York City, USA. It ran from the 42nd Street Ferry on the Hudson River to the Grand Street Ferry on the East River. The line was distinguished by a light green light.
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Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York. Lower Manhattan is generally defined as the area delineated on the north by Chambers Street, on the west by the Hudson River (North
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South Street in Manhattan is noted for its seaport, also called the South Street Seaport.

Sometime in the early 1980s, South Street was refurbished from its abandoned status into a tourist attraction to create an atmosphere similar to places like Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
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Essex Street is a north-south street on New York's Lower East Side. Long apart of the Lower East Side Jewish Enclave, many jewish-owned stores still operate, including a pickle shop (The Pickle Guys), many judaica shops (Zelig Blumenthal, Rabbi Eisenbach, Israel Wholesale Judaica, Nat
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Orchard Street is a street in Manhattan which covers the eight city blocks between Division Street in Chinatown and East Houston Street on the Lower East Side. Vehicular traffic runs north on this one-way street.
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Ludlow Street runs between Houston and Division Street on the Lower East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is a destination street for musicians and music-lovers, and is heavily populated with bars, restaurants, and clubs.
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Allen Street is a street which runs north-south through the Lower Manhattan neighborhood of Chinatown. Because of its unique location, the majority of shops along its route cater to Asians.
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Forsyth Street runs from Houston Street south to East Broadway in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The street was named in 1817 for Lt. Colonel Benjamin Forsyth.
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Pearl Street is a street in the Lower section of the New York City borough of Manhattan, running northeast from Battery Park to the Brooklyn Bridge, then turning west and terminating at Centre Street.
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Bowery (IPA: /ˈbaʊɚi/ or /ˈbaʊri/) is the name of a street and a small neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan.
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Mott Street is a narrow but busy thoroughfare that runs in a north-south direction in lower Manhattan, New York, USA. It is best known as Chinatown's unofficial "Main Street". Mott Street runs from Chatham Square in the south to Bleecker Street in the north.
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Mulberry Street is the street along which Manhattan's Little Italy is centered, and where it meets Chinatown. During the Feast of San Gennaro each September, the entire street is blocked off to vehicular traffic and pedestrians can roam free.
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