4th Street
About
Fourth Street is a minor street in southern Manhattan, New York City. It starts at Avenue D as East Fourth Street and continues to Broadway, where it becomes West Fourth Street. It continues west until Sixth Avenue, where West Fourth Street turns north to intersect with West 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th Streets in Greenwich Village. Most of the street has the same 40-foot (12 m) width between curbstones as others in the prevailing street grid, striped as two curbside lanes and one traffic lane, with one-way traffic eastbound. The portion from Seventh to Eighth Avenues is westbound (northbound geographically) and is approximately 35 feet (11 m) wide, a legacy of the original Greenwich Village street grid. 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.
