It currently has two sections, mostly running along parks, public housing, co-op buildings, tenements, and crossing underneath the Manhattan Bridge.

It then runs west for one block, along the north edge of Corlears Hook Park, to Jackson Street.

A possible Lenape canoe, the only dugout ever found in Manhattan, was excavated by New York Edison workers in 1906 in Cherry Hill by the intersection with Oliver Street, at the original shoreline.

[1][2] The street was named for the 7-acre (28,000 m2) cherry orchard that was planted by David Provoost, who originally owned the land.

"[6] In 1850, his three sons, Elisha, Daniel, and John, inherited the family business and renamed the company "Brooks Brothers," which is the oldest men's clothier chain in the United States.

In the 1930s, the first "superproject" development proposal in New York City was initiated for the Cherry Street area of Corlear's Hook.

Currently, the majority of structures along Cherry Street are residential co-op apartments, public housing, and older tenement buildings south of the Manhattan Bridge.