Ludlow Street
Coordinates: 40°43′12″N 73°59′18″W / 40.72000°N 73.98833°W
Ludlow Street runs between Houston and Division Streets on the Lower East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Vehicular traffic runs south on this one-way street. From north to south, Orchard Street starts from Houston Street and ends at a triangle where Canal and Division Streets converge with Ludlow Street.
Ludlow Street was named after Lieutenant Augustus Ludlow, the naval officer who was second-in-command to Captain James Lawrence on the USS Chesapeake during the ship’s engagement with HMS Shannon on June 1, 1813. It was to Ludlow that Lawrence said "Don't give up the ship."
The land that is now Ludlow Street was once part of the huge De Lancey Estate, which had been confiscated from James De Lancey after the Revolutionary War, due to his status as a Loyalist, and auctioned off. By the early 19th century, speculative builders had constructed decent housing for workers on Ludlow Street, as well as other streets nearby, such as Eldridge, Forsyth and Chrystie Streets. At mid-century, Ludlow was in the middle of Kleindeutschland, where large numbers of German-speaking immigrants had settled, and was one of the informal boundaries of the Jewish section of the neighborhood, along with Grand, Stanton, and Pitt Streets.
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