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Stanton Street is a west-to-east street in theNew York Cityborough ofManhattan, in the neighborhood of theLower East Side. The street begins at theBowery in the west and runs east to a dead end past Pitt Street, adjacent toHamilton Fish Park. A shorter section of Stanton Street also exists east of Columbia Street; it was isolated from the remainder of the street in 1959 with the construction of theGompers Houses and the Masaryk Towers.[1]
Stanton Street largely carries a bike lane, a through lane, and a parking lane. It runs one block north ofRivington Street and one block south ofHouston Street. The street is named after George Stanton, an associate of landownerJames De Lancey.
The street also includes asettlement house based on the ideas thatJane Addams brought from the settlement movement inEngland that won her aNobel Prize in 1931. The Stanton Street Settlement, founded in 1999, is active in the community through volunteer work.
The site of the second African burial ground in New York lies between Stanton and Rivington Streets, now a playground in theSara Delano Roosevelt Park. The M'Finda Kalunga community garden is also at this location.
The Lower East Side, once known for its large Jewish community ofGerman, Eastern European Jews and later by Puerto Ricans before an influx of newer immigrants, is beginning to see a slight resurgence in the Jewish character of the neighborhood, led by theStanton Street Synagogue, Congregation Bnai Jacob Anshei Brzezan.
The Sara D. Roosevelt Park had a service facility at Stanton Street which included a public restroom until 1994, when it was closed.[2]
Lady Gaga lived there before she was famous.[3][4][5]
Forever protagonist Henry Morgan and his adopted son lived at Suffolk & Stanton Streets (the actual Louis Zuflacht building at 154 Stanton Street, which for the show was "Abe's Antiques").[citation needed]
The street, crowded, with market goods, is shown in the first popular sound movie "The Jazz singer" (1927).[citation needed]
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