Astor Place (Manhattan)
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The single block of Astor Place that leads to Broadway predates Manhattan's grid plan. Astor Place is named for John Jacob Astor. 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. 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…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The single block of Astor Place that leads to Broadway predates Manhattan's grid plan. Astor Place is named for John Jacob Astor. 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. 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 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 1860s.