Grand Street (Manhattan)

It runs west/east parallel to and south of Delancey Street, from SoHo through Chinatown, Little Italy, the Bowery, and the Lower East Side.

In early 1776, a circular redoubt was built there, where General Joseph Spencer established a battery.

The hill was later leveled and some of the field stone used for the construction of St. Augustine's Church on Henry Street.

[3] Bayard Mount at the site of present-day Grand and Mott Streets was the tallest hill in lower Manhattan, and overlooked the Collect Pond.

The original portion is the second-oldest Roman Catholic structure in the city, after St. Patrick's Old Cathedral, which was built in 1815.