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)

    I marched in with the men afoot; a gallant show they made as they marched up High Street to the depot. Lucy and Mother Webb remained several hours until we left. I saw them watching me as I stood on the platform at the rear of the last car as long as they could see me. Their eyes swam. I kept my emotion under control enough not to melt into tears.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)