Elizabeth Street (Manhattan)

40°43′12″N 73°59′42″W / 40.720°N 73.995°W / 40.720; -73.995

Elizabeth Street in 1908

Elizabeth Street is a street in Manhattan, New York City, which runs north-south parallel to and west of the Bowery. The street is a popular shopping strip in Lower Manhattan's Nolita neighborhood.[1]

The southern part of Elizabeth Street was constructed in 1755. It was extended north to Bleecker Street in 1816.[2]

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Elizabeth Street was filled with tenement buildings, largely populated by Sicilian immigrants, making the street part of the onetime Little Italy of Lower Manhattan.[3][4] By the late 20th century, many Chinese immigrants moved to Elizabeth Street, south of Kenmare Street, forming Manhattan's Chinatown. The northern portion runs through the modern neighborhoods of Soho and Nolita.[5][6][7]

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  2. ^ Presa, Donald G. (24 June 2003). NoHo East Historic District Designation Report (PDF). New York City Landmarks Preservation Committee. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 February 2016. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
  3. ^ Homberger, Eric (2004). Mrs Astor's New York: Money And Social Power In A Gilded Age. Yale University Press. pp. 29–30. ISBN 9780300105155.
  4. ^ Dickie, John (2004). Cosa Nostra: A History Of The Sicilian Mafia. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 163–164. ISBN 9781403966964.
  5. ^ Walsh, Kevin (2013-09-23). "ELIZABETH STREET, Chinatown–SoHo". Forgotten New York. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  6. ^ Albo, Mike (28 April 2009). "It Doesn't Cost to Dream". The New York Times.
  7. ^ "New York City Chinatown > Storefronts > Elizabeth Street".