. The greatest street in the world : the story of Broadway, old and new, from the Bowling Green to Albany . erected on theblock. On the next block above, between CatherineLane and Leonard Street, there was a grocery store oc-cupied by Cahoone and the hardware store of StephenConover, established in 1810, developing later into thefirm of Conover & Co., dealers in tiles, mantels,^ buildings gave way in 1840 to the building of theSociety Library, used occasionally for Society had been started in 1754, and incorporated in1772, the books being stored in the old City Ha
. The greatest street in the world : the story of Broadway, old and new, from the Bowling Green to Albany . erected on theblock. On the next block above, between CatherineLane and Leonard Street, there was a grocery store oc-cupied by Cahoone and the hardware store of StephenConover, established in 1810, developing later into thefirm of Conover & Co., dealers in tiles, mantels,^ buildings gave way in 1840 to the building of theSociety Library, used occasionally for Society had been started in 1754, and incorporated in1772, the books being stored in the old City Hall in WallStreet. During the Revolution, the library was lootedby the British soldiers, and the books hawked about thestreets, and sold for drink, so that few of them remainedwhen the Americans came into their own again. TheSociety started once more in 1793 in Nassau Street, re-moving later to Chambers Street, where it remained until1840, when it removed to the above site on was soon crowded out of this last place by the upwardtrend of business in 1853, and removed temporarily to • -1. APOLLO ROOMS IN 183O 166 The Worlds Greatest Street the Bible House, and to its present home in UniversityPlace in 1857. The vacated building on Broadway wasoccupied by D. Appleton & Co., the publishers. Edward Windust conducted one of the most famousoyster cellars in the city. It was situated on Park Row,not far from the Park Row Theatre, and was the resortof actors and literati. To give a list of its patrons wouldbe to print a roster of the famous actors who made theold Park famous. Windust waxed rich, and about 1836he opened the Athenaeum Hotel, corner of Broadway andLeonard Street; but his trade did not follow him, andWindust was only too glad to return to his former loca-tion, to find, alas! that his trade had deserted him. The property on the block between Leonard andFranklin Streets was occupied by David Clarkson until1808, when he sold out for $30,000 to Rufus King andJohn L
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