Baxter Street

Baxter Street (Chinese: 巴士特街; pinyin: bāshìtè jiē) is a narrow thoroughfare that runs in a north–south direction in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States.

Colonel Charles Baxter, a hero of the Mexican War who was killed in Chapultepec in 1849.

[citation needed] By 1850, the current alignment was set in place[6] with Centre Market becoming a full block between Grand and Broome Streets, with the portions of the original street alignment north of Broome being connected only to Centre Street and renamed Marion Place (and is currently known as Cleveland Place, with Elm Street—now Lafayette Street—taking the alignment north of there and extending past the original dead end).

[citation needed] The southern end of the street deteriorated into a slum, largely due to the infilling of the Collect Pond, which lowered property values, causing the middle class to move out, and poor immigrants and African Americans to move in.

[citation needed] In between, the first bowling alleys also were opened on the street, behind the saloons at Nos.

51 and 63,[8] and the tap dance was created by competing black and Irish dancers at a tavern at 67 Orange.

[15] In the backdoor pilot of the Arthur spinoff Postcards From Buster, Buster Baxter and his father notice the street sign while walking in Chinatown and comment about how the Chinese characters spell their name.