Astor Place is a one-block street in NoHo/East Village, in the lower part of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It runs from Broadway in the west to Lafayette Street. The street encompasses two plazas at the intersection with Cooper Square, Lafayette Street, Fourth Avenue, and Eighth Street – Alamo Plaza and Astor Place Station Plaza. "Astor Place" is also sometimes used for the neighborhood around the street. It was named for John Jacob Astor, soon after his death in 1848. A $21 million reconstruction to implement a redesign of Astor Place began in 2013 and was completed in 2016.
The Astor Place Theatre
Alamo Cube from Astor Place, looking north
The Astor Library, seen in a 1900 drawing, opened in 1849. It is now the Public Theater
The Astor Place riot in 1849: anti-British feelings expressed in a dispute over competing productions of Macbeth; the Astor Opera House is in the background
NoHo, short for North of Houston Street, is a primarily residential neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is bounded by Mercer Street to the west and the Bowery to the east, and from East 9th Street in the north to East Houston Street in the south.
Looking westward along Bond Street in NoHo
Colonnade Row
National Florence Crittenton Mission, 21 Bleecker Street, 1893
The Astor Place Building at 444 Lafayette Street was built in 1876
