It connected Nowe Miasto (Warszawska) with the Solnica route leading towards Zabłudów (currently Mickiewicza Street), and then through Wojszki and Granne to Warsaw.

Its perspective from the side of Nowe Miasto was closed by a chapel with the passion of the Lord Jesus, built in the 18th century.

[1] In the 19th century, the name Prudska (from the Russian word prud which stands for pond) was used to designate this street.

At the turn of the 20th century, on the section between Warszawska and Mickiewicza streets, there were factories of Polak, Ram, Filipp, Suraski, Aleksander Kronenberg, Mordechaj Głaz, Jankiel Kotlar, Izaak Liwerant, Szymon Okoń, Szloma Słucki, Kalaman Winiar, Ajyzk Zilberberg and Samuel Pines.

In the interwar period, the character of this street changed with the construction of houses for the civil servants' colony and the establishment of nearby plantations.