. The greatest street in the world : the story of Broadway, old and new, from the Bowling Green to Albany . t 460,where light entertainments, concerts, and lectures weregiven between 1847 and 1853; the Old Stuyvesant at663, opposite Bond Street (1852), later, Academy Hall,Donaldsons Opera House, The Canterbury, and MozartHall until 1862; Empire Hall, later the Santa Claus, at596, next to the Metropolitan Hotel, between February, 1853, and January, 1859; the Broadway Museum andMenagerie at 337, between November, 1853, and April, 1854, during which time Chang and Eng, the SiameseTwins, were on e
. The greatest street in the world : the story of Broadway, old and new, from the Bowling Green to Albany . t 460,where light entertainments, concerts, and lectures weregiven between 1847 and 1853; the Old Stuyvesant at663, opposite Bond Street (1852), later, Academy Hall,Donaldsons Opera House, The Canterbury, and MozartHall until 1862; Empire Hall, later the Santa Claus, at596, next to the Metropolitan Hotel, between February, 1853, and January, 1859; the Broadway Museum andMenagerie at 337, between November, 1853, and April, 1854, during which time Chang and Eng, the SiameseTwins, were on exhibition; the Broadway Atheneum at654, between Bleecker and Bond Streets, on the site ofthe Astor mansion, where light drama was given, makingit one of the most popular places in New York sixtyyears ago; World Hall at 337 and 339, corner of WhiteStreet, devoted to panoramas in 1854; Bunnells Mu-seum, corner of Ninth Street, west side, 1880 to 1883;Washington Hall at 598 in 1851; and the Art UnionRooms and Concert Hall at 495 and 497, from 1852 toi860. CHAPTER X FROM UNION SQUARE TO FORTY-SECOND STREET. S before stated, the Bowery andBroadway were designed by thecommission of 1807 to meet atthe tulip tree; above this wasthe Bloomingdale road, intowhich the Bowery curved slightlyfrom its route over that partof the present Fourth Avenuebelow Fourteenth Street. If thestreets planned by the commission were cut throughfrom east to west, there would be formed at this placea number of irregular blocks of inconvenient size andshape. To get out of this dilemma, the commissionlaid out at this point a small park where fresh air mightbe obtained when the city blocks should be built park they called Union Place, because here wasthe union of the two principal thoroughfares of theisland. In 1815, by act of the legislature, it becamethe public meeting-place, or commons, for the peopleof the city; but it was many years before it was used foranything else than for the shanties of the squ
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