Worth Street is a two-way street running roughly northwest-southeast in Manhattan , New York City . It runs from Hudson Street , TriBeCa , in the west to Chatham Square in Chinatown in the east. Past Chatham Square, the roadway continues as Oliver Street, a north-south street running one-way northbound. Between West Broadway and Church Street , Worth Street is also known as Justice John M. Harlan Way in honor of the Supreme Court justice and alumnus of the nearby New York Law School . Between Centre and Baxter Streets , Worth Street is also known as the "Avenue of the Strongest", "New York's Strongest" being a nickname for the city's Department of Sanitation .
21-672: The Jacob K. Javits Federal Office Building is a U.S. governmental office building at 26 Federal Plaza on Foley Square in the Civic Center neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City . At 41 stories, it is the tallest federal building in the United States. It was built in 1963–69 and was designed by Alfred Easton Poor and Kahn & Jacobs , with Eggers & Higgins as associate architects. A western addition, first announced on "inadvertently acquired land" in 1965,
42-417: A triage center on September 11, 2001 . The Foley Square Greenmarket operates year-round at the corner of Centre Street between Worth and Pearl Streets, and offers baked goods as well as local farm picked fruits and vegetables which are guaranteed to have been harvested within three days of sale. Because of its proximity to Chinatown , Foley Square is often host to a large group of people performing tai chi in
63-516: Is a street intersection in the Civic Center neighborhood of Lower Manhattan , New York City , which contains a small triangular park named Thomas Paine Park . The space is bordered by Worth Street to the north, Centre Street to the east, and Lafayette Street to the west, and is located south of Manhattan's Chinatown and east of Tribeca . It was named after a prominent Tammany Hall district leader and local saloon owner, Thomas F. "Big Tom" Foley (1852–1925). Foley Square sits on part of
84-625: Is also the site of the annual Queer Liberation March , an annual LGBTQIA+ rights protest organized by the Reclaim Pride Coalition in response to perceived corporate co-opting and loss of protest principles by the NYC Pride March . 40°42′53″N 74°00′10″W / 40.7147°N 74.0028°W / 40.7147; -74.0028 Worth Street (Manhattan) The western end of Worth Street, between Hudson Street and West Broadway, abuts 60 Hudson Street ,
105-480: Is now. After 1811, Anthony Street was extended to Orange Street (later renamed Baxter Street), completing the "fifth point" of the intersection by bisecting its northeast corner. In 1854, it was renamed Worth Street in honor of Major-general William J. Worth , hero of the 1848 Mexican War . Worth is buried two miles north in Worth Square , which is at the north end of Madison Square near 26th Street. In 1868,
126-873: Is the site of a number of civic buildings including the classic facades and colonnaded entrances of the 1933-built United States Courthouse , fronted by the sculpture Triumph of the Human Spirit by artist Lorenzo Pace ; the New York County Courthouse ; the Church of St. Andrew; the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse – known before 2003 as the Foley Square Courthouse – where the United States Court of Appeals for
147-693: The New York Supreme Court courthouses at 60 Centre Street and 80 Centre Street (the Louis J. Lefkowitz Building) and the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Federal Courthouse ( Southern District of New York ) at 500 Pearl Street all have entrances facing Worth Street. What is now Worth Street originally started at the Five Points intersection and headed west; it was known as Anthony Street. In 1797, it
168-558: The Brooklyn field office is on the 8th floor and the Queens field office is on the 9th floor. The Federal Bureau of Investigation 's New York field office is on the 23rd floor. Former President Richard Nixon rented a federal office in the building from 1980 to 1988. A controversy developed over the artwork by Richard Serra commissioned for the plaza in front of the building, Tilted Arc . Commissioned in 1979 and built in 1981, it
189-755: The Second Circuit is based; the Manhattan Municipal Building ; the Ted Weiss Federal Building and the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building and Court of International Trade . Also featured in the square are five bronze historical medallions, set flush into areas of the surrounding sidewalks, telling the history of the park and its surroundings, including one for the "Negro Burial Ground", an 18th-century African-American burial ground unearthed during construction of
210-474: The city opened the section from Five Points east to Chatham Square . On September 11th, 2001 , on the corner of Worth Street and Broadway , Jules Naudet captured American Airlines Flight 11 hitting the World Trade Center's North Tower . On February 5, 2016, a crane collapsed on Worth Street at 60 Hudson Street , killing one person and injuring two others. Bus service is provided by
231-483: The decision in the death of Eric Garner . In November 2016, in protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline and in solidarity with Standing Rock water protectors , dozens of the thousands of protesters were arrested. In January 2017, to protest the first inauguration of Donald Trump , a collection of activist groups organized a rally titled "NYC Stand Against Trump", held at Foley Square. Foley Square
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#1732773068163252-538: The former Western Union headquarters that later was converted into an internet hub. Worth Street passes through the cluster of government offices and courthouses centered on Foley Square . 125 Worth Street (at Centre Street ) houses the headquarters of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation , the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and the Department of Sanitation. Additionally,
273-460: The former site of Collect Pond , specifically the smaller portion known as "Little Collect Pond" which used to lie to the south of Collect Pond proper. This was one of the original fresh water sources for the city, but in 1811 was drained and filled in because it had become severely polluted and implicated in typhus and cholera outbreaks. The neighborhood around the pond was the notorious Five Points neighborhood , home of many gangs . The square
294-684: The home of the Grand Lodge of New York until its demolition. Agencies located in the building include the Department of Homeland Security , the Department of Health and Human Services , the Social Security Administration , the Department of Housing and Urban Development , and the Federal Executive Board . The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ' New York field office is on the 7th Floor,
315-626: The jurisdiction of the United States Federal Protective Service for any and all law enforcement and protection issues. To the east of the main building is the James L. Watson Court of International Trade Building . A Gothic style Masonic hall was located at this site between Reade and Pearl Streets from 1826 to 1856, directly across from the original site of the New York Hospital . This served as
336-499: The mornings. On November 17, 2011, Foley Square was the site of a protest which was part of the Occupy Wall Street movement, which took place after the protestors had been removed from nearby Zuccotti Park . Thousands of people attended the rally, including members of a dozen different unions. Foley Square has been the site of many other protests and rallies. In December 2014, many thousands gathered there to protest
357-605: The plaza. Other artworks connected with building include A Study in Five Planes/Peace (1965) by Alexander Calder and the Manhattan Sentinels (1996) by Beverly Pepper . In the James L. Watson Court of International Trade can be found Metropolis (1967) by Seymour Fogel and Eagle/Justice Above All Else (1970) by Theodore Roszak . Foley Square Foley Square , also called Federal Plaza ,
378-498: The square. This burial ground has been preserved as the African Burial Ground National Monument . Tilted Arc , a public art installation by Richard Serra , was displayed in the square from 1981 until it was removed amid controversy in 1989. In 2005, Thomas Paine Park was established as a part of the square. Foley Square has been used several times for special purposes. It was used as
399-515: Was criticized both for its aesthetic values and for security reasons. It was removed in 1989, which resulted in a lawsuit and a trial. The piece remains in storage, as the artwork was site-specific, and the artist does not want it displayed in any other location. The removal and trial led to the creation of the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990. After the removal of Tilted Arc , landscape artist Martha Schwartz re-designed
420-458: Was built in 1975–77 and was designed by Kahn & Jacobs, The Eggers Partnership and Poor & Swanke . The building is named for Jacob K. Javits , who served as a United States Senator from New York for 24 years, from 1957 to 1981. The building is assigned its own ZIP Code , 10278; it was one of 41 buildings in Manhattan that had their own ZIP Codes as of 2019. The building falls under
441-534: Was named Catherine Street (separately from the other Catherine Street to the southeast, which remains today, as well as another one to the north). Starting at Hudson Street , it ended at the western bank of the Collect Pond . Catherine Lane, which ran parallel and to the north, still exists as an alleyway between Broadway and Lafayette Street. An 1807 map shows that the pond was filled in, and that Anthony Street ran to an unlabeled short street where Centre Street
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