Washington Street (Manhattan)

The land under the street was owned by Trinity Church, and was ceded to the city in 1808.

[1] Until the 1940s, a stretch of Washington Street, especially from Battery Place to Rector Street, was the home of the city's Little Syria neighborhood, which consisted primarily of Christian Arab immigrants from present day Lebanon and Syria.

[2] At the current location of the World Trade Center site, Washington Street once ran through a neighborhood called Radio Row, which specialized in selling radio parts.

The neighborhood was demolished in 1962, when the area was condemned to make way for the construction of the World Trade Center.

[6] Because Washington Street is so far west, public transportation in the immediate area is scarce.