2. The final indignity may well have been the survival of so many street names originally chosen by De Lancey when he staked out the area for development prior to the Revolution. These include, besides Delancey Street itself, Rivington Street (named for the sometime Tory printer), James and Oliver streets (named for the onetime governor’s sons, both ardent Tories), Stanton Street (named after George Stanton, the De Lanceys’ agent), and Grand Street (which was to have run through a Great Square).