Marketfield Street

Marketfield Street is a short one-way, one-block-long alleyway in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City.

[2][3] The street originally ran to the Dutch livestock market, Marcktveldt, located near where Battery Park is now, which was then outside the walls of the city.

In 1641, the Governor-General of New Netherland, Willem Kieft, opened the colony's first cattle market there.

[7][8] In September 1776, Marketfield Street was part of the area devastated by the Great Fire of New York, which engulfed the southwestern tip of Manhattan.

[1] The 1882 construction of the New York City Produce Exchange demolished the block of the street that contained the French church.