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)

    Outside America I should hardly be believed if I told how simply, in my experience, Dover Street merged into the Back Bay.
    Mary Antin (1881–1949)