Hey marleney:-) You got it right the first time..Vee-See;-) Enjoy!
Edited: 14 years agoThank you, Litsa!
Litsa,
Had an office there.
I always say veezee, but I've heard it with the short sound as well, Vezeee.
Seems to work both ways.
My pleasure marleney..keep enjoyin'!
V C street
Edited: 14 years agoAlso tell him it is within Battery Park City-- he may not know North End Ave. It sits on the Hudson. Better yet print out a mapquest route from the Airport to the hotel with a map.
Rather than add "in Battery Park City" (which covers a fair amount of territory), I'd say, "by the northwest side of the World Financial Center" so as to pinpoint the ES more precisely.
A bit of historic trivia: Vesey Street is named after the first rector of nearby Trinity Church. Because his family more often spelled the surname as Veazie, one might say that's how you should pronounce the street, but I've only heard it pronounced as rhyming with "easy", i.e., with less of a z sound.
I work around the corner. I've always pronounced it sort of between vee see and vee zee street.
I'm with Mel - for me it is halfway between Veezee and Veesee. The street is named for the Rev. Mr. William Vesey, the first rector of Trinity Church at Wall-Street. Some people who bear that last name pronounce it as V-Z, and some pronounce it as V-C, but almost none of them pronounce it as "Vessy", to rhyme with messy and dressy, and I would think that hearing it mispronounced in that way is a regular annoyance to Veseys everywhere.
William Vesey, by the way, was rector for nearly 50 years, and it was during his tenure that the Church Farm was acquired. (The what? Queen Anne gave Trinity church two farms that together formed the Church Farm; it included all land west of Broadway between what are now Fulton and Christopher Streets.) That land was the source of Trinity's enormous wealth, and explains why so many streets in that area bear the names of people or things connected with Trinity Church: these include Church Street, Barclay Street (the second rector), and Vestry Street (after the parish's vestry, or governing board.) Avoiding confusion with Vestry Street, which is pronounced with a short "e", is another reason why people should pronounce the long "e" in "Vesey Street" correctly.
