The rest of Rose Street was replaced by Murray Bergtraum High School (1976). What’s there now? A small piece survives under the Brooklyn Bridge approach, from Frankfort northeast to Avenue of The Finest at Madison Street. Location: Frankfort and Gold Streets under the Brooklyn Bridge northeast to New Chambers Street
Water Street began at Whitehall and proceeded uninterrupted to Jackson Street today its lower part has become a main thoroughfare, while its northern part has been chopped to bits. In addition, many streets that formerly went through this area have been drastically cut back: for example, Cherry Street, which used to start at Pearl and Dover Streets at an intersection called Franklin Square (at a point where the Third Avenue El passed beneath the Brooklyn Bridge), now begins at Catherine Street. The levelling of Scollay Square in Boston to make rom for the new Government Center in the 1960s is comparable to this area for general elimination of a neighborhood.
The infamous Five Points lurked at the western edge of this area. More than any area of lower Manhattan, the Lower East Side and the area between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges has been almost completely changed since the early part of the 20th Century as housing projects have replaced the ancient tenements and confusing maze of streets that used to dominate the region. However, another tiny street named for a New Jersey town, Weehawken Street, survives ten blocks north of here. What’s there now? Subsequently absorbed by Canal Street as it was widened.
Location: 474 Washington Street west to West Street south of Canal Street
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