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[[Image:Forsyth Delancey jeh.JPG|thumb|2008 rearrangement, seen from Delancey Street|left]]
[[File:Forsyth Plaza 2017-3 jeh.jpg|thumb|Forsyth Street Plaza being rebuilt, 2017. It opened May 25, 2018.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.boweryboogie.com/2018/05/years-delayed-forsyth-street-plaza-finally-debuts-with-minimal-fanfare/|title=Years Delayed, Forsyth Street Plaza Finally Debuts with Minimal Fanfare|last=Perler|first=Elie|date=2018-05-25|work=Bowery Boogie|access-date=2018-05-27|language=en-US|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180528133518/https://www.boweryboogie.com/2018/05/years-delayed-forsyth-street-plaza-finally-debuts-with-minimal-fanfare/|archive-date=2018-05-28}}</ref>]]
'''Forsyth Street''' runs from [[Houston Street]] south to [[Henry Street (Manhattan)|Henry Street]] in the [[New York City]] [[borough (New York City)|borough]] of [[Manhattan]]. The street was named in 1817 for Lt. Colonel [[Benjamin Forsyth]].<ref name="street">{{cite book|last1=Feirstein|first1=Sanna|title=Naming New York : Manhattan places & how they got their names|date=2001|publisher=New York University Press|location=New York, New York|isbn=9780814727126|page=59|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1jITCgAAQBAJ|access-date=23 May 2018}}</ref>

Forsyth Street's southernmost portion, south of [[Canal Street (Manhattan)|Canal Street]], runs parallel to the [[Manhattan Bridge]] in [[Chinatown, Manhattan|Chinatown]]. On the west side of this block, a greenmarket operates in the shadow of the bridge.

Forsyth Street is interrupted north of Canal Street for one block due to a 20th-century schoolhouse, now housing [[Pace University High School]] and I.S. 131, built on the former route. There is a dead-end section of Forsyth Street just north of Canal Street, which is used as a parking area and [[Open streets|open street]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Quinlan |first=Adriane |date=June 11, 2025 |title=Who Gets to Use This Dead End in Chinatown? |url=https://www.curbed.com/article/chinatown-opposition-open-streets-time-again-bar-dead-end-forsyth-canal-nick-poe-despot.html |access-date=June 12, 2025 |website=Curbed}}</ref> North of there it runs parallel to [[Chrystie Street]] that lies to its west, with [[Sara Delano Roosevelt Park|Sara D. Roosevelt Park]] separating the two. Since October 2008 the parallel parking lane on the west side of the street is separated from the curb by a bicycle lane carrying traffic north from the [[Manhattan Bridge]]. The street traverses the [[Lower East Side, Manhattan|Lower East Side]] neighborhood of Manhattan.

From south to north, Forsyth Street starts at [[Henry Street (Manhattan)|Henry Street]], intersects [[East Broadway (Manhattan)|East Broadway]], [[Division Street (Manhattan)|Division Street]], and [[Canal Street (Manhattan)|Canal Street]], becomes a [[Pedestrian zone|pedestrian street]] for one block, then continues from [[Hester Street (Manhattan)|Hester Street]], intersects [[Grand Street (Manhattan)|Grand Street]], [[Broome Street]], [[Delancey Street]], [[Rivington Street]] and [[Stanton Street]], and ends at [[Houston Street]].

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