Camac Street
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![]() 22 Camac Street, a high end shopping destination | |||
Former name(s) | Camac Street | ||
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Maintained by | Kolkata Municipal Corporation | ||
Location | Kolkata, India | ||
Postal code | 700016, 700017, 700071 | ||
Nearest Kolkata Metro station | Park Street, Maidan, Rabindra Sadan | ||
north end | Park Street | ||
south end | AJC Bose Road |
Camac Street (renamed Abanindranath Thakur Sarani) is a street running in the central business district of Kolkata, India, from Park Street (Allen Park) to Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road (Nizam Palace). The road was named after William Camac, a senior merchant in the days of Lord Cornwallis and Lord Wellesley. In the mid-1970s, the Park Street 'razzmatazz' spilled onto Camac Street which is, today, considered to be a high street of Kolkata with many commercial establishments and high-end shopping destinations, with many shopping malls, boutiques, restaurants and stand-alone stores.[1] It intersects Middleton Street and Shakespeare Sarani, two other important roads in the CBD. Several smaller roads like Middleton Row, Short Street, Victoria Terrace and Albert Road merge into Camac Street from the east or west.
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G.K. Tower, an office tower
Fort Knox, jewellery mall
Kolkata Industry House
Camac Street and Shakespeare Sarani crossing
References[]
- ^ "BSNL may take two weeks to be back online". The Times of India. 9 July 2009. Archived from the original on 1 July 2012. Retrieved 6 December 2011.
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