. Nooks & corners of old New York . lowprices. At No. 453 Broadway, between Grandand Howard Streets, in 1844 John Little-field, a corn doctor, set up a place, desig-nating himself as a chiropodist—an occu-pation before unknown under that title. .,6 OF OLD NEW YORK At No. 485 Broadway, near BroomeStreet, Broughams Lyceum was builtin 1850, and opened in December withan ** occasional rigmarole and a 1852 the house was opened, Sep-tember S, as Wallacks Lyceum, hav-ing been acquired by James W. Wal-lack. Wallack ended his career as anactor in this house. In 1861 he re-moved to his new thea
. Nooks & corners of old New York . lowprices. At No. 453 Broadway, between Grandand Howard Streets, in 1844 John Little-field, a corn doctor, set up a place, desig-nating himself as a chiropodist—an occu-pation before unknown under that title. .,6 OF OLD NEW YORK At No. 485 Broadway, near BroomeStreet, Broughams Lyceum was builtin 1850, and opened in December withan ** occasional rigmarole and a 1852 the house was opened, Sep-tember S, as Wallacks Lyceum, hav-ing been acquired by James W. Wal-lack. Wallack ended his career as anactor in this house. In 1861 he re-moved to his new theatre, corner Thir-teenth Street and Broadway. Still \later the Lyceum was called theBroadway Theatre. Murderers Row has its startwhere Watts Street ends at Sullivan,midway of the block between Grandand Broome Streets. It could not beidentified by its name, for it is not arow at all, merely an ill-smelling alley, an arcade extend- x-ing through a block of batteredtenements. After running halfits course through the block, the 97 J i. NOOKS AND CORNERS alley is broken by an intersecting spacebetween houses—a space that is takenup by push carts, barrels, tumble-downwooden balconies and lines of dryingclothes. Murderers Row is cele-brated in police annals as a crime the evil doers were driven out longyears ago and the houses given over toItalians. These people are excessivelypoor, and have such a hard struggle forlife as to have no desire to regard thelaws of the Health Board. Constantcomplaints are made that the houses arehovels and the alley a breeding-placefor disease. Greenwich Village sprang from theoldest known settlement on the Islandof Manhattan, It was an Indian vil-lage, clustering about the site of thepresent West Washington Market, atthe foot of Gansevoort Street, whenHendrick Hudson reached the island,in 1609. 9s OF OLD NEW YORK The region was a fertile one, and itsnatural drainage afforded it sanitary ad-vantages which even to this day makeit a desirable
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