Thompson Street

Location	Greenwich Village andSoHo,Manhattan,New York City
Postal code	10012, 10013[1]
North end	Washington Square South
South end	Avenue of the Americas
East	LaGuardia Place
West	Sullivan Street

Thompson Street is a street in theLower Manhattan neighborhoods ofGreenwich Village andSoHo inNew York City, which runs north–south, fromWashington Square Park atWashington Square South (West Fourth Street) to theAvenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) belowGrand Street, where the street turns right to Sixth Avenue; it thus does not connect withCanal Street just a half block south of the turning point. It runs parallel to and betweenSullivan Street (to the west), and LaGuardia Place (formerly Laurens Street) which becomesWest Broadway (to the east). Vehicular traffic goes southbound.^[2][3]

The street was named forRevolutionary WarBrigadier GeneralWilliam Thompson, who served in New York and Canada.^[4]

• Carbone, at 181 Thompson Street; anItalian restaurant.
• Vesuvio Playground, on the corner of Thompson Street andSpring Street; a neighborhood park, formerly named Thompson Street Playground.^[5]
• The Uncommons, at 230 Thompson Street, formerly the Village Chess Shop, now Manhattan's first and only board game cafe.^[6][7]

• Abraham David Christian, at 59 #27 Thompson Street, sculptor.^[8]
• Thomas Eboli, at 177 Thompson Street, mobster who was acting boss of theGenovese crime family.^[9]
• Carmine Galante, at 206 Thompson Street, mobster and acting boss of theBonanno crime family.^[9]
• Vincent Gigante, at 181 and 238 Thompson Street, Italian-American mobster who was boss of the Genovese crime family.^[9]
• Bernhard Goetz, at 211 Thompson Street, the Subway Shooter.^[10]
• Anthony Strollo, 177 Thompson Street, mobster who served as a high-ranking capo of the Genovese crime family.^[9]
• Frank Zappa, at 180 Thompson Street, composer, singer-songwriter, guitarist, recording engineer, music producer and film director.^[11]
• Tom Shaner, at 222-224 Thompson Street, singer-songwriter, guitarist, recording engineer, music producer and video director

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  TheJudson Memorial Church on the corner of Thompson Street and Washington Square South
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  Furman Hall ofNew York University Law School, at Thompson and West 3rd Streets
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  22 Thomson Street at the corner of Grand Street was built c.1900

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