Canal Street

Canal Street (the “street of the English channel”) is a street of New York, with the the United States.

Localization

Canal Street is located at the South of the island of Manhattan, which it almost completely crosses according to a North-western head office - South-east. It begins in the West on the level from the Hudson River and of the Holland Tunnel (which connects the island to the New Jersey) and finishes in the East when it meets Broadway.

Canal Street east one of the principal arteries of Chinatown and separates this district from Little Italy. It also forms the northern border of TriBeCa and the southern border of SoHo.

History

Canal Street draws its name from a channel which was dug at the beginning of the 19th century in order to drain Collect Pond - an unhealthy water level - in the Hudson. The water level was filled in 1811 and Canal Street was completed in 1820 following the way which the channel borrowed. The disappearance of Collect Pond transformed in fact the surroundings in marshes, the many sources of the zone being drained. The buildings built along Canal Lays were degraded quickly and the living conditions of the Eastern portion of the street crumbled, causing its inclusion in the Bidonville of the Five Points.

Nowadays, Canal Street is a retail park bourdonnante, filled of stores with weak rents and salesmen of street in the West and banks and jewelleries in the East.

Internal bonds

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External bonds

photographs and charts tourist of Canal Street

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