4th Street (Manhattan)

4th Street (Manhattan)

Coordinates: 40°43′31″N 73°59′13″W / 40.725213°N 73.987078°W / 40.725213; -73.987078

"4th Street" redirects here. For other uses, see 4th Street (disambiguation).

West Fourth Street runs east-west through most of eastern and central Manhattan and then turns north at Sixth Avenue to intersect with West 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th Streets in Greenwich Village. Most of the street has the same 40 foot (13 m) width between curbstones as others in the prevailing street grid, striped as two curbside lanes and one traffic lane, with one-way traffic south- and eastbound. The portion from Seventh to Eighth Avenues is approximately 35 feet (11 m) wide, a legacy of the original Greenwich Village street grid, striped as one parking lane on the west and one wide traffic lane, northbound only. The approximately three block section of West Fourth on the southern border of Washington Square Park is also called Washington Square South. The north/south portion was formerly called Asylum Street.