Back Kristofer küçəsi (Manhetten) Azerbaijani Christopher Street German Christopher Street Spanish خیابان کریستوفر Persian Christopher Street French Christopher Street (Manhattan) Hungarian Christopher Street Italian クリストファー・ストリート Japanese Кристофер-стрит Russian Christopher Street Turkish
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| Namesake | Charles Christopher Amos |
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| Location | West Village, Lower Manhattan, New York City |
| Postal code | 10014 |
| Coordinates | 40°44′00″N 74°00′18″W / 40.73333°N 74.00500°W |
| West end | West Street |
| East end | Sixth Avenue |
Christopher Street is a street in the West Village neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is the continuation of 9th Street west of Sixth Avenue.
It is most notable for the Stonewall Inn, which is located on Christopher Street near the corner of Seventh Avenue South. As a result of the Stonewall riots in 1969, the street became the center of the world's gay rights movement in the late 1970s. To this day, the inn and the street serve as an international symbol of gay pride.
Christopher Street is named after Charles Christopher Amos, the owner of the inherited estate which included the location of the street. Amos is also the namesake of nearby Charles Street, and of the former Amos Street, which is now West 10th Street.[1][2]
- ^ Moscow, Henry (1978). The Street Book: An Encyclopedia of Manhattan's Street Names and Their Origins. New York: Hagstrom Company. ISBN 978-0-8232-1275-0., pp. 37, 39
- ^ Feirstein, Sanna (2001). Naming New York: Manhattan Places & How They Got Their Names. New York: New York University Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-8147-2712-6.