Houston Street
Houston Street (/ˈhaʊstən/ HOW-stən) is a major east–west thoroughfare in Lower Manhattan in New York City, United States. It runs the full width of the island of Manhattan, from FDR Drive along the East River in the east to the West Side Highway along the Hudson River in the west. The street is divided into west and east sections by Broadway.
This article is about the street in Manhattan, New York City. For the baseball player, see Huston Street. For other uses, see Houston Street (disambiguation).Namesake
Houston Street generally serves as the boundary between neighborhoods on the East Side of Manhattan—Alphabet City, the East Village, NoHo, Greenwich Village, and the West Village to the north; and the Lower East Side, most of the Bowery, Nolita, and SoHo to the south. The numeric street-naming grid in Manhattan, created as part of the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, begins immediately north of Houston Street with 1st Street at Avenue A.[1]
The street's name is pronounced "HOW-stən" ("/ˈhaʊstən/"), in contrast to the city of Houston, Texas, whose name is pronounced "HYOO-stən" ("/ˈhjuːstən/"). The street was named for William Houstoun, whose surname was pronounced "HOW-stən", while the city was named for Sam Houston.[2]
