Jones Street
Jones Street is a street in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City. It runs from Bleecker Street to West 4th Street. Some people confuse it with Great Jones Street in NoHo, about half a mile to the east.
The street now called Jones Street existed before 1789 and was named after Gardner Jones. Great Jones Street was named after Samuel Jones, a lawyer who helped revise New York State’s laws in 1789 with Richard Varick. Samuel Jones was Gardner Jones’s brother-in-law and was known as “The Father of The New York Bar.”
Jones deeded the site to the city on the condition that any street through his property would be named for him. When the street was created in 1789, the city already had a Jones Street, so the two brothers-in-law argued until Samuel Jones suggested naming the new street “Great Jones Street.” Another idea is that Great Jones Street is simply wider than Jones Street.
Jones Street appears in popular culture as well. The cover photo of Bob Dylan’s 1963 album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan shows Dylan and Suze Rotolo walking on Jones Street. The street has been used as a filming location for movies including Cruising, Bullets Over Broadway, Chinese Coffee, Whatever Works, Addicted to Love, and The Irishman. In The Butcher’s Wife, the Florence Meat Market at 5 Jones Street is shown. Scenes from the first episode of the sixth season of Californication were shot on Jones Street, as were scenes from Woody Allen’s Crisis in Six Scenes.
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 05:27 (CET).