The single block of Astor Place that leads to Broadway predates Manhattan's grid plan. A view of Broadway in 1909 Broadway, as the name implies, is a wide avenue in New York City, and is the oldest north-south main thoroughfare in the city, dating to the first New Amsterdam settlement. ... A simple grid plan road map (Windermere, Florida). ...

Astor Place is named for John Jacob Astor, whose family name was originally Ashdor before he Americanized it. Astor arrived in New York in 1783, and progressed to the point where he became the richest person in the United States at that time, and one of New York City's most famous sons. He died at the age of 75 in 1848, and the street was named for him soon thereafter. John Jacob Astor, detail of an oil painting by Gilbert Stuart, 1794 John Jacob (originally Johann Jakob) Astor (July 17, 1763 - March 29, 1848) was the first of the Astor family dynasty and the first millionaire in the United States, making his fortune in the fur trade and real estate... Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 27th 141,205 km² 455 km 530 km 13. ... 1783 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

• Source: "The Street Book"; an encyclopedia of Manhattan's street names and their origins. By Henry Moscow.

Astor Place was the site of the Astor Place Opera House on the corner of East 8th Street. Built to be a fashionable theater in 1847, it was the site of the Astor Place Riot of May 10, 1849. Anti-British feelings were running so high among New York's Irish at the height of the potato famine that they found an outlet in the rivalry between actors Edwin Forrest and the English William Charles Macready. The appearance onstage of the Englishman in Macbeth occasioned so violent a protest in the streets that the police overreacted and fired into the crowd. At least eighteen died and hundreds were injured. The theater itself never recovered from the associations and was razed in the 1860's. 1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Astor Place riot occurred May 10, 1849 at the Astor Place Opera House in New York City. ... May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (131st in leap years). ... 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Bridget ODonnell and her two children during the famine The Great Famine or the Great Hunger (Irish: An Gorta Mór or An Drochshaol), known more commonly outside of Ireland as the Irish Potato Famine, is the name given to a famine in Ireland between 1845 and 1849. ... This photograph of Edwin Forrest was taken by Matthew Brady. ... William Charles Macready (March 3, 1793 - April 27, 1873), English actor, was born in London, and educated at Rugby. ... Scene from Macbeth, depicting the witches conjuring of an apparition in Act IV, Scene I. Painting by William Rimmer This article is on the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare. ...

The current Off-Broadway Astor Place Theater, with only 299 seats, has been located in the landmark Colonnade Row on Lafayette Street, half a block south, since 1969. It was known for premiering works by downtown playwrights like Sam Shepard and since 1991 as home to the Blue Man Group. The Joseph Papp Public Theater (home to the New York Shakespeare Festival) is located across the street. Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Actor Sam Shepard mulls over a scene in the motion picture Stealth, while filming on June 15, 2004, aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Blue Man Group at the New London Theatre Blue Man Group is a creative organization centered on a trio of mute performers that present themselves in blue paint, latex bald caps, and black clothing. ... The New York Shakespeare Festival in the Park, often simply referred to as Shakespeare in the Park, is an annual theater festival held in the summer in New York Citys Central Park. ...

Astor Place is home to Tony Rosenthal's sculpture "Alamo", known popularly as "the cube". It was then the subject of a prank played by the ATF squad (All Too Flat) where it was turned into a giant Rubik's Cube. The members of the organization were careful with the prank, as they didn't want to be destructive. The cube stayed up for about 24 hours before NYC maintenance took the cardboard with paint off the cube. "The Cube" was taken away for repairs in September, 2005, and for a short time a makeshift memorial out of white tubes replaced it. It was restored in December, 2005, and is still able to spin. Alamo is an outdoor sculpture by Bernard Rosenthal, located on Astor Place, on the island of Manhattan in New York City. ... Rubiks Cube in scrambled state Rubiks Cube in solved state Rubiks Cube is a mechanical puzzle invented in 1974 by the Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. ...

Historic Places

One of the original libraries making up the New York Public Library, the Astor Library was housed in the Astor Library Building. The building is home today to Joseph Papp Public Theater. New York Public Library, central block, built 1897–1911, Carrère and Hastings, architects (June 2003) The New York Public Library (NYPL), one of three public library systems serving New York City, is one of the leading libraries in the United States. ... The Joseph Papp Public Theater is a New York City theater named for Joseph Papp, a noted producer. ... The Joseph Papp Public Theater is a New York City theater named for Joseph Papp, a noted producer. ...

The Astor Place Subway station is among the original 28 subway stations and is on the List of Registered Historic Places in New York. Astor Place Station, named for John Jacob Astor, is a busy subway station in the East Village of Manhattan, and contained a department store entrance on the southbound side (Wanamakers when constructed, now K-Mart). ... This article is 200 KB or more in size. ...

The Cooper Station Post Office is just two blocks north. The Cooper Station post office is named in honor of Peter Cooper. ...

In 1860, Abraham Lincoln came to the attention of the fledgling Republican party with his Cooper Union Address. Given in The Cooper Union's Great Hall, the 'Right Makes Might' speech examined federal control of slavery and the thoughts of the signers of the Constitution. Cooper Union also housed one of the first free public libraries. Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, was the 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865), and the first president from the Republican Party. ... The Republican Party is one of the two major political parties in the United States two-party system, the other one being the Democratic Party. ... The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is a privately funded college in Lower Manhattan of New York City. ... The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is a privately funded college in Lower Manhattan of New York City. ... Librarians and patrons in a typical larger urban public library A public library is a library which is accessible by the public and is often operated by civil servants and funded from public sources. ...

The beautiful Peter Cooper Memorial by Augustus Saint Gaudens is one block south on Cooper Square. Peter Fennimore Cooper (February 12, 1791–April 4, 1883) was an American industrialist, inventor and philanthropist. ... Augustus Saint Gaudens, 1905 Augustus Saint-Gaudens (Dublin, March 1, 1848 - Cornish, New Hampshire, August 3, 1907), was the Irish born American sculptor of the Beaux Arts generation who most embodied the ideals of the American Renaissance. ...

External links

• www.publictheater.org - Free Shakespeare in the Park
• Demolished Broadway theatres
• The Astor Place Riot
• The prank(With pictures)
• Pictures of the Cube being removed

The Cube was removed on March 8, 2005, restored, then returned on November 18, 2005. Conservation is the profession devoted to the preservation of cultural property for the future. ...

• Lincoln's Cooper Union Address