Henry Street (Manhattan)

Henry Street (Manhattan)

Henry Street is a street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It runs in a northeasterly direction one-way eastbound from Oliver Street in the south and west, passing underneath the Manhattan Bridge and on to Grand Street in the north and east. The poor condition of immigrants living in squalid tenements on Henry Street and the surrounding neighborhood in the late 19th century prompted nurses Lillian Wald and Mary Maud Brewster to found the Henry Street Settlement in 1893. In recent times, Henry Street continues to be an immigrant neighborhood and has been absorbed into an expanding Chinatown. [http://www.nychinatown.org/henry.html] In recognition of Henry Street's multicultural history [http://www.henrystreetschool.org/about] , the Henry Street School for International Studies opened in 2004 [http://www.grandstreetnews.com/scripts/grand/paper/Article.asp?ArticleID=267] at 220 Henry Street. The school is one of the New York City Department of Education's small schools and is supported by the Asia Society and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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* [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?word=Henry%20Street%20(New%20York%2C%20N.Y.)&s=3&notword=&f=2 Images of Henry Street] from the New York Public Library
* [http://www.nyc-architecture.com/LES/LES015.htm Henry Street Settlement] at NYC-Architecture.com


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