Manual of the corporation of the city of New York, for the years .. . (presentGreenwich and Washington), originally designed more than half acentury previous, were regulated or improved as streets, except inoccasional places. Two or three piers were erected on the west sideof Greenwich street, between Cortland and Fulton streets, previousto the Eevolution ; and one large building, iised for the deposit of ar-tillery stores, occupied the block between Cortland and Dey streets,but below Liberty street the river shore was in its natural conditionuntil near the commencement of the present century.
Manual of the corporation of the city of New York, for the years .. . (presentGreenwich and Washington), originally designed more than half acentury previous, were regulated or improved as streets, except inoccasional places. Two or three piers were erected on the west sideof Greenwich street, between Cortland and Fulton streets, previousto the Eevolution ; and one large building, iised for the deposit of ar-tillery stores, occupied the block between Cortland and Dey streets,but below Liberty street the river shore was in its natural conditionuntil near the commencement of the present century. In 1713, the subject of erecting a poor-house and house of correc-tion was first agitated, and a committee was appointed to considerof a convenient place to erect the same, of the dimensions and mate-rials proper for its construction, and of the ways and means to be 550 Above that farm lay the Domines Hook, extending to the presentCanal street. This also originally belonged to Trinity Church. Thefollowing sketch shows the river shore along nearly the whole of this. ?M
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