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Street by Street: East Village

At the spot where 10th and Stuyvesant streets now
intersect, Governor Peter Stuyvesant’s country house
once stood. His grandson, also named Peter, inherited
most of the property and had it divided into streets
in 1787. Among the prize sites of the St. Mark’s Historic
District are the St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery,
the Stuyvesant-Fish house and the 1795 home of
Nicholas Stuyvesant, both on Stuyvesant Street. Astor Place
Many other homes in the district were built between subway (line 6)
1871 and 1890 and still have their original stoops,
lintels, and other architectural details.

Alamo is the title of the 15-ft (4.6-m)
black steel cube in Astor Place
designed by Bernard Rosenthal.
It revolves when pushed. E 8 T H S T

Astor Place saw rioting A S T O R P L A C E
in 1849. English actor William
Macready, playing Hamlet at
the Astor Place Opera House,
criticized American actor Edwin T
T E S T R E E T H I R D A V E N U E
Forrest. Forrest’s fans revolted,
and there were 34 deaths.
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Built in the Greek Revival style in the 1830s, these buildings
were once expensive town houses. The houses, of which B O W E R Y
only four are left, are unified by
one facade in the European
style. The Astor Place Theatre,
which is located here, has been
home to the Blue Man Group
since 1991.

2 The Public Theater
In 1965 the late Joseph
Papp convinced the 4. Merchant’s House Museum
city to buy the Astor This museum displays Federal,
Library (1849) as a home American Empire, and Victorian
for the theater. furniture.

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