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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 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 naval off ...

westward to

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

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 IRT Second Avenue Line 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 Divisi ...

. The portion of Division Street under the

Manhattan Bridge The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan at Canal Street with Downtown Brooklyn at the Flatbush Avenue Extension. The main span is long, with the suspension cable ...

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 Confucius Plaza. At this point, the street widens. Buses to

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and casinos park on the right side. There used to be a

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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 parall ...

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

Confucius Confucius ( ; zh, s=, p=Kǒng Fūzǐ, "Master Kǒng"; or commonly zh, s=, p=Kǒngzǐ, labels=no; – ) was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages. C ...

. 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

Essex Street Essex Street is a north-south street on the Lower East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan. North of Houston Street, the street becomes Avenue A, which goes north to 14th Street. South of Canal Street it becomes Rutgers Street, the ...

) * Confucius Plaza *Agia Barbara (on

) *

Eldridge Street Synagogue The Eldridge Street Synagogue is a synagogue and National Historic Landmark in Chinatown, Manhattan, New York City. Built in 1887, it is one of the first synagogues erected in the United States by Eastern European Jews. The Orthodox congre ...

(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