The Rue du Pont-Neuf is a street in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France, shared between Les Halles to the north and to the south. It was pierced in the second half of the 19th century. It bears this name because it leads to the Pont Neuf.
The street gives access to the Pont Neuf from the right bank to the south, and to the Forum des Halles from its other end to the north.
The lane continues via this last end and becomes the , closed to car traffic since the closure of the old halls of Paris, then the Rue Montorgueil, , , Rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière to end at the .
The current street is an important crossing point because it crosses several arteries such as the tracks of the banks of the Seine, the Rue de Rivoli and the Rue Saint-Honoré. There was previously an entrance to the Forum des Halles car park, now filled in and converted into a sidewalk.
On 21 June 1854, a decree approved the plan for the restructuring of the Halles Centrales. This plan provided for the opening of a new street between the Pont Neuf and Les Halles. The plot plan of the properties to be expropriated for "the widening of the Rue Tirechape and the extension of this road to the Pont Neuf" was published on 6 September 1865.
The Rue ÃÂtienne, and were absorbed by the new road. Part of the and the , located at the mouth of the Pont Neuf, also disappeared. In 1867, the new road was named the Rue du Pont-Neuf. The part between the and the Rue Rambuteau was renamed the in 1877; this street was removed during the construction of the Forum des Halles.