Manhattan: Charles Street - 4th Street Charles Street, north side, east from and including 4th Street, and showing in the foreground 5, 4-1 Van Nest Place. The north side of Charles Street, from 4th to Bleecker Streets, is known as Van Nest Place, (Originally Van Ness Place) and has its own house numbers, in order from east to west. See Van Nest Place. Spring, 1233. P. L. Sperr. According to the N.Y. Times, Sunday June 7, 1936 - the nomenclature Van Nest Place will be eliminated; Charles Street incorporating same. These structures will become 59 to 5l Charles Street; No. 53 of which is the Synagogue of the Congregation Darech-Amuno, organised in 1838.