Park Street, Kolkata

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'''Park Street''', is a famous thoroughfare in downtown [[Kolkata]], [[India]]. It is one of [[Kolkata|Kolkata's]] most visited places, famed for numerous celebrations such as on [[Boro Din|Christmas]] and [[New Year's Eve]]. The street runs through what was a deer park of [[Elijah Impey|Sir Elijah Impey]], Chief Justice of the [[High Court of Calcutta|Supreme Court in Calcutta]] from 1773 to 1789.

==History==
[[File:Calcutta Park Street 1930s R02.jpg|thumb|Park Street in the 1930s]]
Documented records of the throughfare can be traced back to 1760, when [[Kolkata]] (then Calcutta) was the capital of the British Empire in India. Since 1760, the street has been through several name changes. Previous names include 'Ghorustan ka Rasta', [[Henry Vansittart|Vansittart]] Avenue and Burial Ground Road.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Banka |first1=Neha |title=Street-wise Kolkata: How Park Street got its name |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/kolkata/street-wise-kolkata-how-park-street-got-its-name-6120892/lite |website=The Indian Express |access-date=25 May 2020 |language=en |date=3 December 2019}}</ref>

Some 250 years ago, Park Street was known as Burial Ground Road and was not a preferred choice of residence, as there were a number of cemeteries in this area, the [[South Park Street Cemetery]], opposite to it was the North Park Street Cemetery (now replaced by a school). Further west, there were two smaller cemeteries, one French and one Italian (now replaced by offices and schools).<ref>{{Cite news|last=Ghose|first=Patrick Sanjiv Lal|date=2017-09-09|title=Cemetery chronicles|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/society/history-and-culture/cemetery-chronicles/article19643321.ece|access-date=2020-05-25|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

Park Street has been the main evening recreation zone for Kolkata people since the British era. In the 1970s and 1980s much of Kolkata's [[night life]] took place in Park Street, with many clubs and restaurants situated there. Many noted musicians had played at various popular night spots, such as Trincas, Peter Cat, Oly Pub, Blue Fox, [[Mocambo (Kolkata)|Mocambo]] and Moulin Rouge. Even before that, from the 1940s through to the late 1960s, Kolkata's prolific night life was centred on fashionable Park Street. [[The Park Hotels|The Park Hotel]] chain started with the opening of its first hotel, the 150 room The Park Hotel on 1 November 1967.<ref>{{cite news |title=The First Lady of boutique |url=http://www.expresshospitality.com/20060331/hospitalitylife03.shtml |publisher=Express Hospitality ([[Indian Express Group]]) |date=16–31 March 2006 |access-date=6 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712224745/http://www.expresshospitality.com/20060331/hospitalitylife03.shtml |archive-date=12 July 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The park street name coinage is assumed to be having association with such a history.

==Location and importance==
[[File:Christmas Day at Park Street (15751074844).jpg|thumb|Christmas on Park Street]]
[[File:KCF 2015 Me.jpg|thumb|Christmas decorations, 2015]]Park Street originates from [[Chowringhee Road]] (J L Nehru Road) and connects to [[Park Circus]] 7 point crossing in a south eastern direction. The portion of Park Street between [[Chowringhee Road]] and Mullick Bazar has been one of the city's attractions for years. Several important roads originate from/intersect at Park Street in the northward and southward directions, namely Russell Street, Middleton Row, [[Camac Street]], Wood Street, Loudon Street and Rawdon Street towards the South and [[Free School Street]], Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road towards the North. Park Street also intersects [[AJC Bose Road]] at Mullick Bazar crossing and eventually goes to [[Park Circus]] from where other major roads such as Syed Amir Ali Avenue, Darga Road, [[Park Circus|Park Circus Connector]] starts and connects to important areas such as [[Ballygunge]], [[Eastern Metropolitan Bypass|EM Bypass]] and CIT Road.

Park Street remains Kolkata's foremost dining district, with many restaurants and pubs. It is often known as "Food Street" and "The Street that Never Sleeps". In the last 15 years, many new restaurants, shopping malls, 5-star hotels and nightclubs have opened in other areas of the city and hence Park Street has lost much of its earlier attraction as being the ''numero uno'' entertainment hub of Kolkata. However, it is still one of the prime commercial and entertainment zones of the city. Park Street is traditionally decorated with lights on Diwali, Christmas Day and New Year's Eve.

==Landmarks==
[[File:Park St - Camac St Xing 'Park Plaza'.jpg|thumb|'Park Plaza' office at Park St. - Camac St. crossing]]
[[File:Middleton Row 'St Thomas Church'.jpg|thumb|[[St. Thomas Church, Kolkata]]]]
[[File:Park Mansion (14874127763).jpg|thumbnail|The famous Park Mansion, built by [[David Joseph Ezra|David Ezra]] on Park street]]
Park Street has notable landmarks, showrooms, buildings and cenotaphs and tombs of prominent figures from the [[British Raj]] era and European population such as:
*[[Asiatic Society]]
*[[St. Xavier's Collegiate School]]
*[[St. Xavier's College, Calcutta]]
*[[Loreto College, Kolkata]]
*[[St. Thomas Church, Kolkata]]
*Assembly of God Church school
*'Park Plaza' Office
*Queen's Mansion
*Park Mansions, housing both kolkata Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata and Alliance Française du Bengale
*[[The Park Hotels|The Park]] Hotel
*[[South Park Street Cemetery]]
*Stephen Court Building

==Police district==
Park Street police station is part of the [[Divisions of Kolkata Police|South division]] of [[Kolkata Police]]. Located at 89, Park Street, Kolkata-700016, it has jurisdiction over the police district which is bordered on the ''north'' from the north-west corner of the junction of Dr. Md. Ishaque Road (old Kyd Street), Jawaharlal Nehru Road (old Chowringhee Road) and Janaki Saha Road (old Mayo Road), thence crossing Jawaharlal Nehru Road to the north-east corner of the junction of Dr. Md. Ishaque Road (old Kyd Street) and Jawaharlal Nehru Road, thence eastward by the northern limits of Dr. Md. Ishaque Road up to Mirza Galib Street (old Free School Street) and thence northward along the western limits of Mirza Galib Street up to the north-west corner of the junction of Mustaque Ahmed Lane (old Marquis Street) and Mirza Galib Street, thence crossing Mirza Galib Street, to the north-east corner of the junction of Mustaque Ahmed Lane and Mirza Galib Street, thence eastward by the northern limits of Mustaque Ahmed Lane to Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road (old Wellesly Street), thence crossing Rafi Ahmed Kidwai to the north-east corner of the junction of Mustaque Ahmed Lane and Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road, thence eastward by the northern limits of Haji Md. Mohsin Road and Alimuddin Street respectively to Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road thence crossing Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road up to the north-east corner of the junction of Alimuddin Street and Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road.<ref name="police">{{cite web| url = http://www.kolkatapolice.gov.in/division.asp?ID=5&Division=S| title = Kolkata Police| work = South Division| publisher = KP| access-date = 12 March 2018| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180330095637/http://kolkatapolice.gov.in/division.asp?ID=5&Division=S| archive-date = 30 March 2018| url-status = dead}}</ref>

It is bordered on the ''east'' from the north-east corner of the junction of Alimuddin Street and the Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road, thence by southward the eastern boundary of Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road up to the south-east corner of the junction of Park Street and Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road.<ref name="police"/>

It is bordered in ''south'' from the south-east corner of the junction of Park Street and Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road (old Lower Circular Road) then crossing Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road to the south west corner of the junction of Park Street and Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road, then westward by the southern limits of Park Street to Jawaharlal Nehru Road (old Chowringhee Road) thence crossing Jawaharlal Nehru Road up to the south-west corner of the junction of Park Street, Outram Road and Jawaharlal Nehru Road.<ref name="police"/>

It is bordered on the ''west'' From the south-west corner of the junction of Park Street, Jawaharlal Nehru Road (old Chowringhee Road) and Outram Road, thence northward by the western limits of the Jawaharlal Nehru Road up to the north-west corner of the junction of Dr. Md. Ishaque Road (old Kyd Street), Jawaharlal Nehru Road and Janaki Saha Road (old Mayo Road).<ref name="police"/>

See also - [http://www.kolkatapolice.gov.in/fullmap.asp?section=K1 Park Street police district map]

[[Tollygunge#Police district|Tollygunge Women's police station]] has jurisdiction over all the police districts in the South Division, i.e. Park Street, Shakespeare Sarani, Alipore, Hastings, Maidan, Bhowanipore, Kalighat, Tollygunge, Charu Market, New Alipur and Chetla.<ref name="police"/>park Street police station

==See also==
* [[Camac Street]]
* [[Sudder Street]]
* [[Chowringhee]]
*[[AJC Bose Road & APC Road]]
*[[Free School Street]]

==References==
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==External links==
{{commons category|Mother Teresa Sarani}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050113083648/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1041214/asp/opinion/story_4122978.asp Park Street history] (archived 13 January 2005)
*[http://www.rangan-datta.info/parkstreetcemetery.html Article on South Park Street Cemetery]
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