Houston Street

The Houston Street [ haʊstən ] is an east-west main thoroughfare in lower Manhattan. It extends across the entire width of the Borough of Manhattan, from Pier 40 on the Hudson River through the Port Authority truck terminal at the Greenwich Street to the East River, and serves as the boundary between the districts of SoHo and Greenwich Village on the west Side and between the East Village and the Lower East Side to the East Side. The numerical grid for street naming, introduced as part of the Commissioners ' plan of 1811 begins just north of Houston Street.

History

• The Houston Street is named after William Houstoun, a deputy from Georgia, and not after Sam Houston, after the Texas city was named - hence the different pronunciation.
• Founded in 1891 Nikola Tesla his Houston Street laboratory. Much of his research was lost in a fire in 1895.