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Chrystie Street (Manhattan)
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Chrystie Street
Chrystie Street
is a street on
Manhattan
's
Lower East Side
and
Chinatown
, running as a continuation of
Second Avenue
from
Houston Street
, for seven blocks south to
Canal Street
. It is bounded on the east for its entirety by
Sara Delano Roosevelt Park
, for the creation of which the formerly built-up east side of Chrystie Street (the even numbers) was razed, eliminating among other structures three small
synagogues
. Originally called First Street, it was renamed for Col.
John Chrystie
, a veteran of the
War of 1812
and a member of the
Philolexian Society
of
Columbia University
, and a new
First Street
was laid out above Houston Street.
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