Like so many streets spanning Lower Manhattan, Worth Street packs a lot of history. Originally called Anthony Street after a descendent of the colonial-era Lispenard family, which owned a vast tract of land in today’s Tribeca, it was one of the five streets that formed the entrance to Five Points—the East Side slum located north […]
A look inside the abandoned Worth Street subway station in Lower Manhattan, shuttered in the 1960s
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