page_title: Albany Street (Manhattan)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Albany Street (Manhattan) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking south from the World Trade Center memorial. Shown are the World Center Hotel and 90 West Street.
context_page_description: Albany Street is a short street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. The street runs west-to-east from the Battery Park City Esplanade along the Hudson River to Greenwich Street, passing through South End Avenue and West Street on the way. The street has a walkway connection to the Rector Street Bridge which crosses West Street.
context_section_description: According to maps drawn by David Valentine, the street did not exist before 1782. By 1789, it was a small extension of Thames Street. In 1797, the first pier on the west side of the island was built. The pier was used as the dock for the ferry between New York and Albany, hence the street leading to the pier was named "Albany Street".
  In the early 1850s, it was proposed that the street be extended through the yard next to Trinity Church in order to connect the street to Broadway. The proposition became the center of a heated debate between the Municipal Corporation of New York and the Religious Corporation of Trinity Church.
  When Battery Park City was built on landfill in the Hudson River in the 1980s, the street was extended west of West Street into the new development.
caption: 130 Cedar Street (left) and 90 West Street
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