Lafayette Street

Lafayette Street
The Public Theater, formerly the Astor Library
Map
Lafayette Street
Width50 feet (15 m)
North endEast 9th Street
South endReade Street below Foley Square
EastCentre Street
WestBroadway

Lafayette Street is a major north–south street in New York City's Lower Manhattan. It originates at the intersection of Reade Street and Centre Street, one block north of Chambers Street. The one-way street then successively runs through Chinatown, Little Italy, NoLIta, and NoHo and finally, between East 9th and East 10th streets, merges with Fourth Avenue. A buffered bike lane runs outside the left traffic lane. North of Spring Street, Lafayette Street is northbound (uptown)-only; south of Spring Street, Lafayette is southbound (downtown)-only.

The street is named after the Marquis de Lafayette, a French hero of the American Revolutionary War.[1]

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