Coenties Slip

[6] Arthur Bartlett Maurice describes Coenties Slip in the 1935 book Magical City: “At the head of the Slip, where the Elevated road winds its way along Pearl Street on its way from South Ferry to Hanover Square, stood the Stadt Huys of Dutch days, the first City Hall on Manhattan Island.

"[7] The land was infilled by 1835 and new buildings were developed, only to be destroyed shortly afterward in the Great Fire of New York.

[8] Coenties Slip between Water and Pearl Streets was closed, painted, and converted into a pedestrian plaza in 2013.

From the late 1950s to the early 1960s, the artists Chryssa, James Rosenquist, Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Lenore Tawney, Ann Wilson, [11] Fred Mitchell, Jack Youngerman and French actress Delphine Seyrig lived in this Lower Manhattan location overlooking the East River.

These artists were among a group of intellectuals, writers, filmmakers, and poets who lived and worked in Coenties Slip.