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Roosevelt Street was a street located in theTwo Bridges district ofLower Manhattan, which existed from the British colonial period up until the early 1950s, running fromPearl Street atPark Row (Chatham Street) southeast toSouth Street.[1] It ran parallel to James Street, one block west.[2] The western end of Roosevelt Street later became the walkway from Park Row to the front entrance of the Chatham Green Apartments at 165 Park Row.
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Roosevelt Street was named after a Roosevelt who owned property in the area from the time of Dutch settlement ofNew Amsterdam. It was not named after eitherpresident of the United States with the same surname,Teddy Roosevelt orFranklin Roosevelt.[1]
The street is historically significant as the place where the mob of theNew York City draft riots – a violent protest againstconscription for theAmerican Civil War – assembled before heading uptown to the draft offices.[3]
TheRoosevelt Street Ferry was displaced by the construction of the New York (north) tower of theBrooklyn Bridge. Later on, the rest of the street, along with many of its surrounding streets and lanes, were eliminated by the construction of theAlfred E. Smith Houses, a public housing project, in the 1950s.
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