List of eponymous streets in New York City

This is a list of streets and squares in New York City named after a person, organized by borough.^[1]

Manhattan

• Allen Street – Captain William Henry Allen, the youngest person to command a Navy ship in the War of 1812.
• Ann Street – Ann White, wife of developer and merchant Capt. Thomas White
• Astor Place and Astor Row – John Jacob Astor and other members of the Astor family, landowners ^[2]
• Barrow Street – Thomas Barrow, artist of a popular engraving of Trinity Church
• Bayard Street and Hester Street – Hester Bayard
• Beach Street – Paul Bache, the son-in-law of Anthony Lispenard, who owned Lispenard Meadows, just south of what is now Canal Street
• Beak Street – uncertain, but probably for the Beak family
• Beekman Place, Beekman Street, William Street – Wilhelmus Beekman. William Street is also named for William of Nassau.
• Bethune Street (pronounced Beth-YOON) – Johanna Bethune, co-founder of the New York Orphan Asylum
• Bleecker Street – Anthony Bleecker (1770–1827). a lawyer, poet and friend of Washington Irving and William Cullen Bryant, because the street ran through Bleecker's farm.
• Bogardus Place – the Bogardus family, including Everardus Bogardus and James Bogardus
• Broome Street – John Broome, lieutenant governor of New York
• Cabrini Boulevard – Mother Cabrini
• Charles Street – Charles Christopher Amos, landowner
• Charlton Street – John Charlton, president of the New York Medical Society
• Christopher Street – Charles Christopher Amos, landowner. Prior to 1799 known as Skinner Road after Col. William Skinner, son-in-law of landowner Adm. Peter Warren
• Colonel Robert Magaw Place – Robert Magaw, a colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
• Columbus Circle – for the quadcentennial of the first voyage of Christopher Columbus
• Cortlandt Street – for the Cortlandt family, landowners
• Delancey Street – James De Lancey, who owned a farm located in what is now the Lower East Side
• Detective Omar J. Edwards Way – after a police officer killed by friendly fire^[3]
• Forsyth Street – Lt. Col. Benjamin Forsyth
• Fulton Street – Robert Fulton
• Gay Street – possibly "R. Gay," apocryphally to Sidney Howard Gay
• George Balanchine Way – In 1990 a segment of West 63rd Street near the New York State Theatre was renamed George Balanchine Way, after the founder of the New-York City Ballet.
• Great Jones Street – Samuel Jones, "The Father of The New York Bar"
• Greene Street – Nathanael Greene, American Revolutionary War hero
• Henry Street (Manhattan) – Henry Rutgers, American Revolutionary War hero
• Horatio Street – Horatio Gates, American Revolutionary War hero of the Battle of Saratoga
• Houston Street (pronounced HOW-ston) – William Houstoun, Founding Father
• Irving Place – Washington Irving (author) known for his History of New York and short stories like "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
• Jane Street – A Mr. Jaynes, who resided at #81, where Alexander Hamilton is sometimes said to have died
• Jefferson Street (Manhattan) – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd American President
• Peter Jennings Way – Peter Jennings, ABC News anchor
• Juan Pablo Duarte Boulevard (part of Saint Nicholas Avenue) – Juan Pablo Duarte, a founding father of the Dominican Republic
• LaGuardia Place – Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City
• Lenox Avenue – James Lenox, philanthropist
• Leroy Street – Jacob Le Roy & Son, a shipping company and War of 1812 blockade-runner
• Ludlow Street – Augustus Ludlow, War of 1812 naval hero
• Macdougal Street – Alexander McDougall, Revolutionary War hero
• Madison Avenue and Madison Street – James Madison, fourth president of the United States
• Mercer Street – Hugh Mercer, American Revolutionary War figure
• Malcolm X Boulevard (co-named with Lenox Avenue) – Malcolm X American human rights activist
• Monroe Street (Manhattan) – James Monroe, American president
• Morton Street – Jacob Morton, early 19th century militia commander
• Nassau Street – William of Nassau
• Perry Street – Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero of the War of 1812
• Rivington Street – James Rivington, Revolutionary War-era publisher
• Rutgers Street – Henry Rutgers, American Revolutionary War hero
• St. Mark's Place
• Saint Nicholas Avenue – Saint Nicholas
• Stuyvesant Street – Peter Stuyvesant, last governor of New Netherland, who owned the land ^[4]
• Sullivan Street – John Sullivan, American Revolutionary War general
• Thompson Street – William Thompson, Revolutionary War general
• Vanderbilt Avenue – Vanderbilt family, who owned Grand Central Terminal, the construction of which predicated construction of the road
• Varick Street – Richard Varick, American Revolutionary War figure and Mayor of New York City
• Vesey Street (pronounced VEE-see) – after Rev. William Vesey
• Washington Street – George Washington, first president of the United States
• Wooster Street – David Wooster, American Revolutionary War hero
• Worth Street – William J. Worth

Squares

• Chatham Square – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, and Prime Minister of Great Britain
• Duffy Square – Chaplain Francis P. Duffy of New York's 69th Infantry Regiment
• Hanover Square – the House of Hanover
• Lincoln Square – a local landowner
• Madison Square – James Madison, fourth President of the United States
• Margaret Sanger Square – founder of Planned Parenthood
• Times Square – The New York Times
• Tompkins Square Park – Daniel D. Tompkins (1774–1825), Vice President of the United States
• Verdi Square – Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer
• Washington Square Park – George Washington
• Worth Square – William J. Worth

Bronx

• Bruckner Boulevard and Bruckner Expressway – Henry Bruckner, politician and longtime Borough President
• Elias Karmon Way; (Located at the corner of Thwaites Place and Barker Avenue 10467) – Elias Karmon, aka fondly "Mr. Bronx" and then later "Dr. Bronx" for his honorary graduate degree. He was great-grandfather, a generous philanthropist and humanitarian to multiple causes in and outside of the Bronx, and owed multiple businesses in the Bronx since the late 1930s.
• Bartow Avenue – Family of John Bartow, a missionary for the Anglican Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in London
• Seabury Avenue – Samuel Seabury, first Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal of America
• Corsa Avenue – Family of Andrew Corsa who led 5,000 American and French troops to Morrisania to survey British fortifications

Brooklyn

• Fulton Street – Robert Fulton
• Herzl Street – Theodor Herzl
• McGuinness Boulevard – Peter McGuinness
• Vanderbilt Avenue – Vanderbilt family

Queens

• Brinckerhoff Avenue – the Brinckerhoff family
• Douglaston Parkway – named for the Douglas family as was the area of Douglaston, Queens
• Francis Lewis Boulevard – Francis Lewis, local resident and signer of the Declaration of Independence
• Parsons Boulevard – named after botanist Samuel Bowne Parsons
• Jackie Robinson Parkway – Jackie Robinson – Major League Baseball player
• Roosevelt Avenue – Theodore Roosevelt ^[5]
• Sean Bell Way – renamed for the victim of a controversial police-involved shooting, originally named Liverpool Street
• Steinway Street – named for the makers of the famed Steinway piano. Their factory was located in the Astoria area of Queens, where this street runs through.
• Van Wyck Expressway (formerly Van Wyck Boulevard) – named for Robert Anderson Van Wyck, first mayor of New York City after the consolidation of the five boroughs

Staten Island

• Father Capodanno Boulevard – Vincent R. Capodanno, killed in action in the Vietnam War
• Hylan Boulevard – John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York City
• LaGuardia Avenue – Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City
• Detective Russel Timoshenko Way – after a police officer killed in the line of duty

See also

• List of eponymous roads in London
• List of eponymous streets in Manila
• List of numbered streets in Manhattan

References

1. Moscow, Henry (1978). The Street Book: An Encyclopedia of Manhattan’s Street Names and Their Origins. New York City, New York: Fordham University Press. ISBN 0-8232-1275-0.
2. "Underground History". The New York Times. April 10, 1987. Retrieved 2010-12-03. ... referring to John Jacob Astor, for whom Astor Place was named and who in the early days of the country was a trader in beaver furs.
3. "Harlem street renamed Detective Omar J. Edwards Way in honor of slain officer" by Bob Kappstatter, Daily News (New York), May 29, 2011
4. "Stuyvesant Street". Forgotten NY. Retrieved 2010-12-03. Petrus Stuyvesant built this house at 21 Stuyvesant Street in 1803. It was a wedding gift to his daughter Elizabeth, who married Nicholas Fish, a close friend and political ally of Alexander Hamilton. Son Hamilton Fish became New York State governor, senator, and secretary of state. It is now known as the Stuyvesant-Fish House.
5. Martin Mbugua (August 3, 1999). "Make Tracks to Big Avenue". Daily News (New York). Retrieved 2010-11-30. Created through the amalgamation of several local streets as the elevated tracks were being constructed in the early 1900s, Roosevelt Ave. was named after Theodore Roosevelt, the New York City native and 26th President of the U.S.

Further reading

• New York Songlines: Virtual Walking Tours of Manhattan Streets