Hester Street

Hester Street may refer to:

  • Hester Street (Manhattan), a street in the Lower East Side of the New York City Borough of Manhattan
  • Hester Street (film), a 1975 film based on Abraham Cahan's 1896 novella Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto

Famous quotes containing the words hester and/or street:

    It was almost two years ago, while awaiting the imminent birth of my second child, that I decided to start working part-time. This would have been unthinkable to me when I was younger. At twenty-five I should have worn a big red A on my chest; it would have stood for ambition, an ambition so brazen and burning that it would have reduced Hester Prynne’s transgression to pale pink.
    Anna Quindlen (20th century)

    The harlot’s cry from street to street
    Shall weave old England’s winding sheet.
    William Blake (1757–1827)