They returned to the street, mounted their horses, rode through the rain to the big house on Houston Street.

* LaGuardia Place, a street in Greenwich Village which runs from Houston Street to Washington Square, is named for La Guardia ; there is also a statue of the mayor on that street.

The neighborhood is bordered by Broadway to the east, the Hudson River to the west, Houston Street to the south, and 14th Street to the north, and roughly centered around Washington Square and New York University.

Unlike streets of most of Manhattan above Houston Street, streets in the Village typically are named rather than numbered.

Mike Doughty ( who billed himself at the time as " M. Doughty ") was a folk singer ( he attended Eugene Lang College with Ani DiFranco, where they studied with Sekou Sundiata and played around the school together ), slam poet, sometime music writer, and doorman at the old Houston Street location of The Knitting Factory, then a nexus for such avant-garde artists as John Zorn and Marc Ribot.

* Many cities in the U. S. have a street, school, or park named for Houston ; however, New York City's Houston Street is not named after Sam Houston.

A sneak preview was shown on May 19, 1927 at the Texas Theater on Houston Street in San Antonio.

Houston Street ( ) is a major east-west thoroughfare in downtown Manhattan, running crosstown across the full width of the island of Manhattan, from Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive ( FDR Drive ) and East River Park on the East River to Pier 40 and West Street on the Hudson River.

The numeric street-naming grid in Manhattan, created as part of the Commissioners ' Plan of 1811, begins immediately north of Houston Street with 1st Street at Avenue A, although the grid does not fully come into effect until 13th Street.

Silhouette of William Houstoun ( lawyer ) | William Houstoun, namesake of Houston Street

Houston Street begins at an interchange with the FDR Drive at East River Park.

After the intersection with the Bowery, Houston Street becomes a regular two-way city street and continues west.

After the Broadway intersection, East Houston Street becomes West Houston Street.

West Houston Street comes to an end at an intersection with West Street and Pier 40 on the Hudson River.

From International Airport in Los Angeles to International Airport in Houston, as the great four-jet Boeing 707 flies, is a routine five hours and 25 minutes, including stopovers at Phoenix, El Paso, and San Antonio.

It is located on the campus of the University of Houston.

* 1836 – The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen

* An American high school, Carnegie Vanguard High School in Houston, Texas, is named after him

Clinton greets a Hurricane Katrina evacuee, who is in a wheelchair, in the Reliant Center at the Houston Astrodome on September 5, 2005.

It is hosted by the Consulate General of France in Houston, The French Alliance, the French-American Chamber of Commerce, and the Texan-French Alliance for the Arts.

* Ziegenbock ( owned by Anheuser-Busch ), is brewed in Houston, Texas.

The University of Houston | University of Houston's CRWC Natatorium is home to the United States ' largest collegiate swimming pool

On February 11, 2012, after the sudden death of Whitney Houston, Dolly Parton stated, " Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston.

The University of Texas Longhorn Band performing on the college football | football field of Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas, the end zone of which is decorated in colors of The University of Texas at Austin.

The region is anchored by the cities of Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Houston, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Biloxi, Mobile, Pensacola, Tampa, and increasingly, Sarasota, all the centers of their respective metropolitan areas and containing large ports.

The largest population of Guatemalans is in Los Angeles, but there are also established Guatemalan communities in Dallas, Houston, Miami, New York City, San Diego, San Francisco area, and Washington, DC.

* 1837 – Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.

Based at Rice University in Houston, Texas, The Papers of Jefferson Davis is an editing project to publish documents related to Davis.

* 1836 – Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.

William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a campus in Houston, Texas, United States.

The university is situated near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center.

Rice competes in 14 NCAA Division I varsity sports and is a part of Conference USA, often competing with its cross-town rival the University of Houston.

Rice's campus is a heavily-wooded tract of land located close to the city of West University Place, in the museum district of Houston.

* 1836 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.

ZZ Top is an American rock band from Houston, Texas.

The team also has a cheerleading squad simply named the Houston Texans Cheerleaders.

The new Houston team was named the Colt. 45s after a " Name The Team " contest was won by William Irving Neder.

During a roadtrip to Houston, later in the season, Smith met a part-time usherette at the Astrodome named Denise while making his way to the team bus outside the stadium.

The city of Houston is named after him.

* Temple Lea Houston, 1860 – 1905 ( named after Margaret's father ) ( state senator of Texas legislature, 1885 – 1888 )

File: Panoramic Houston skyline. jpg | The U. S. city of Houston in Southeast Texas was named in honor of Sam Houston.

* USS Sam Houston, an Ethan Allen class submarine, was named after Houston.

* The Sam Houston National Forest, one of four national forests in Texas, was named after Houston.

* Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, is named after Houston.

* The Sam Houston Coliseum ( now demolished ) in Houston, Texas, was named after Houston.