A report on Houston Street

Looking east from Orchard Street
Houston Street (1917) by George Luks
East Houston Street between Clinton and Suffolk Streets in the 1920s
Houston Street at Lafayette Street in 1974

Major east–west thoroughfare in Lower Manhattan in New York City.

- Houston Street
Looking east from Orchard Street

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Tenements on Essex Street between Hester and Grand Streets

Essex Street

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North-south street on the Lower East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.

North-south street on the Lower East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.

Tenements on Essex Street between Hester and Grand Streets
Essex Street Market

North of Houston Street, the street becomes Avenue A, which goes north to 14th Street.

Pier 40 (front) and piers 45 and 46, as seen from One World Observatory

Pier 40

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Pier 40 (front) and piers 45 and 46, as seen from One World Observatory
Pier 40 (front) and piers 45 and 46, as seen from One World Observatory
The side of Pier 40.
Drone photograph of Pier 40
Pier 40's entrance

Pier 40 (officially known as Pier 40 at Hudson River Park) is a parking garage, sports facility, and former marine terminal at the west end of Houston Street in Manhattan, New York, within Hudson River Park.

The Public Theater, formerly the Astor Library

Lafayette Street

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Major north-south street in New York City's Lower Manhattan.

Major north-south street in New York City's Lower Manhattan.

The Public Theater, formerly the Astor Library
Gilded statue of Puck over the front door of the Puck Building
The Cube (Alamo by Tony Rosenthal) at Astor Place
"Clinton Hall", at Astor Place, was the home of the New York Mercantile Library, and the site of the Astor Opera House where the Astor Place riot of 1849 took place
The Astor Place Building at 444 Lafayette
Condominium building at 445 Lafayette
The Puck Building, former printing plant for Puck magazine, was built in stages and designed by Albert Wagner

The Puck Building on East Houston Street

Second Avenue station

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View across the platforms

The Second Avenue station is a station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Second Avenue and Houston Street on the border between the East Village and the Lower East Side, in Manhattan.

A New York Transit Museum excursion train set of Arnines on the BMT Brighton Line

Independent Subway System

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Rapid transit rail system in New York City that is now part of the New York City Subway.

Rapid transit rail system in New York City that is now part of the New York City Subway.

A New York Transit Museum excursion train set of Arnines on the BMT Brighton Line
Independent Subway mosaics sign at 14th Street station on the Sixth Avenue Line, before V train service at this station was replaced by M train service
World Trade Center station
Map of the IND system from 1939.
Smith–Ninth Streets
Service patterns of the IND c. 1940

The first part of the IND Sixth Avenue Line, or what was then known as the Houston–Essex Street Line, began operations at noon on January 1, 1936 with two local tracks from a junction with the Washington Heights, Eighth Avenue and Church Street Line (Eighth Avenue Line) south of West Fourth Street–Washington Square east under Houston Street and south under Essex Street to a temporary terminal at East Broadway.

Broadway–Lafayette Street/Bleecker Street station

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New York City Subway station complex in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line and the IND Sixth Avenue Line.

New York City Subway station complex in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line and the IND Sixth Avenue Line.

The Hive artwork by Leo Villareal
Faience name tablet, Heins & LaFarge/Grueby Faience Company, from 1904
View from northbound platform
Original cartouche
Pre-renovation Mosaic station tablets by Vickers
Southbound stairway at street
The station used to have skylights to let in natural light (1905)

This involved widening, connecting, and renaming two formerly unconnected streets: Elm Street, which ran south of Houston Street, and Lafayette Place, which ran north of Great Jones Street to an intersection with Astor Place.

View from One World Trade Center

West Side Highway

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5.42 mi mostly surface section of New York State Route 9A , running from West 72nd Street along the Hudson River to the southern tip of Manhattan in New York City.

5.42 mi mostly surface section of New York State Route 9A , running from West 72nd Street along the Hudson River to the southern tip of Manhattan in New York City.

View from One World Trade Center
Beginning of West Street and the West Side Highway starting from the Battery Park Underpass
The last elevated portion of the West Side Highway by the Riverside South apartment complex
The old elevated highway, collapsed at 14th Street
Protesters demonstrating against the Westway project in New York City
The least leafy portion of the new boulevard is the part by the midtown piers between 34th and 59th Street. This shows the West Side Highway at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. The bike path is in the foreground.
Joe DiMaggio Highway sign on the elevated portion of the highway
The World Trade Center towers as viewed from the highway in mid-2001

On October 31, 2017, a man intentionally drove a pickup truck for a mile through the Hudson River Park's bike path, parallel to the West Side Highway, between Houston Street and Chambers Street, killing eight people and injuring at least 11.

A Kips Bay-bound M9 about to terminate at 1st Av and 25th St in Kips Bay.

M9 (New York City bus)

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Local bus route that operates along the Avenue C Line , in Manhattan, New York City.

Local bus route that operates along the Avenue C Line , in Manhattan, New York City.

A Kips Bay-bound M9 about to terminate at 1st Av and 25th St in Kips Bay.

Its route ran along West Street, a one-way pair of Charlton Street, Prince Street, and Stanton Street (eastbound) and Houston Street, 1st Avenue, and 3rd Street (westbound), Pitt Street/Avenue C, and 10th Street.

Portrait by Napoleon Sarony, 1890s

Nikola Tesla

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Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.

Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.

Portrait by Napoleon Sarony, 1890s
Rebuilt, Tesla's house (parish hall) in Smiljan, now in Croatia, region of Lika, where he was born, and the rebuilt church, where his father served. During the Yugoslav Wars, several of the buildings were severely damaged by fire. They were restored and reopened in 2006.
Tesla's baptismal record, 28 June 1856
Tesla's father, Milutin, was an Orthodox priest in the village of Smiljan.
Tesla aged 23, c. 1879
Edison Machine Works on Goerck Street, New York. Tesla found the change from cosmopolitan Europe to working at this shop, located amongst the tenements on Manhattan's lower east side, a "painful surprise".
Drawing from, illustrating the principle of Tesla's alternating current induction motor
Tesla's AC dynamo-electric machine (AC electric generator) in an 1888
Mark Twain in Tesla's South Fifth Avenue laboratory, 1894
Tesla demonstrating wireless lighting by "electrostatic induction" during an 1891 lecture at Columbia College via two long Geissler tubes (similar to neon tubes) in his hands
X-ray Tesla took of his hand
In 1898, Tesla demonstrated a radio-controlled boat which he hoped to sell as a guided torpedo to navies around the world.
Tesla sitting in front of a spiral coil used in his wireless power experiments at his East Houston St. laboratory
Tesla's Colorado Springs laboratory
A multiple exposure picture of Tesla sitting next to his "magnifying transmitter" generating millions of volts. The 7 m long arcs were not part of the normal operation, but only produced for effect by rapidly cycling the power switch.
Tesla's Wardenclyffe plant on Long Island in 1904. From this facility, Tesla hoped to demonstrate wireless transmission of electrical energy across the Atlantic.
Tesla's bladeless turbine design
Second banquet meeting of the Institute of Radio Engineers, 23 April 1915. Tesla is seen standing in the center.
Tesla on Time magazine commemorating his 75th birthday
Newspaper representation of the thought camera Tesla described at his 1933 birthday party
Room 3327 of the Hotel New Yorker, where Tesla died
Gilded urn with Tesla's ashes, in his favorite geometric object, a sphere (Nikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade)
Tesla c. 1896
Tesla c. undefined 1885
Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, Serbia
Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport was named after the scientist in 2006.
This Nikola Tesla statue in Zagreb, Croatia was made by Ivan Meštrović in 1954. It was located at the Ruđer Bošković Institute before it was moved to the Tesla street in the city center in 2006.
Nikola Tesla Corner in New York City
Nikola Tesla statue in Niagara Falls, Ontario
X-ray Tesla took of his hand

These included a lab at 175 Grand Street (1889–1892), the fourth floor of 33–35 South Fifth Avenue (1892–1895), and sixth and seventh floors of 46 & 48 East Houston Street (1895–1902).

These Federal-style townhouses at 651–655 Washington Street are located within the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension

Washington Street (Manhattan)

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North-south street in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

North-south street in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

These Federal-style townhouses at 651–655 Washington Street are located within the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension
The end of the High Line Park at Gansevoort and Washington Streets; in the background is the Standard Hotel

Main east-west streets crossed include (from north to south) Christopher Street, Houston Street and Canal Street; neighborhoods traversed include the Meatpacking District, the West Village, Hudson Square and Tribeca.