Rivington Street (Manhattan)
Rivington Street is a street in
Manhattan which runs across the
Lower East Side neighborhood, between
Bowery and Pitt Street, with a break between
Chrystie and
Forsyth for
Sara D. Roosevelt Park. Vehicular traffic runs west on this
one-way street.
The site of the second
African burial ground in New York lies between Rivington and
Stanton Streets, now a playground in the Sara D. Roosevelt Park. The M'Finda Kalunga community garden is also at this location. Several functioning synogogues remain on Rivington Street, a reminder of the large
Jewish immigrant population that once inhabited the Lower East Side.
Notable establishments on Rivington Street include University Settlement House (the first
settlement house in New York), Streit's Matzos, Schiller's (a
Keith McNally restaurant), musician
Moby's vegan shop
TeaNY, the social center
ABC No Rio, the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center, and the newly constructed 21-story Hotel on Rivington, among others.
From east to west, Rivington starts at the
Samuel Gompers Houses on Pitt Street to intersect Ridge Street, Attorney Street, Clinton Street, Suffolk Street, Norfolk Street,
Essex Street,
Ludlow Street,
Orchard Street, Allen Street and Eldridge Street, ending at
Forsyth Street, then continues from Chrystie Street to the
Bowery.
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New York Songlines (see Rivington Street entry)
