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Baxter Street () is a narrow thoroughfare that runs in a north–south direction in the borough of Manhattan in New York City in the United States. It lies between Mulberry Street and Centre Street. It runs through Little Italy and the edge of Chinatown. Today, it is a one-way street southbound until it ends at Worth Street. One block north of Worth Street, Baxter changes direction to become one-way northbound. Originally named Orange Street, it was famous as the primary street to form the notorious Five Points intersection (originally a regular corner of Orange and Cross Streets, and then, Anthony Street, which was later renamed Worth Street, was cut through to the intersection in 1817,〔 p.15〕 bisecting one of the four corners into two, so that the resulting junction consisted of five “points” on a map). ==History of alignment== The original alignment of Orange Street began in a dead end north of Prince Street. An 1803 plan, though, had it merge with Crosby Street at Houston Street. At Spring Street, Elm Street merged with Orange Street; and at Broome Street, Centre Street merged with Orange Street. The triangle formed by Broome, Orange and Centre Streets was the location of the original Centre Market. By 1850, the current alignment was set in place with Centre Market becoming a full block between Grand and Broome Streets, with the portions of the original street alignment north of Broome being connected only to Centre Street and renamed Marion Place (and is currently known as Cleveland Place, with Elm, now Lafayette St., taking the alignment north of there and extending past the original dead end). The street on the east side of the Market, which was displaced a bit east of where Orange ends at Grand, also had taken on the name Centre Market Place. On the southern end, Orange Street ran along the banks of the Collect Pond north of Cross Street, and a block later ended at Chatham Street, which would later be renamed Park Row. Past Park Row, another street, slightly to the east, named Roosevelt Street, continued to the East River waterfront. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Baxter Street」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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