The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time; New York City life in all its various phases . Block on West Side of Broadway, bctwien iTincc and Houston Streeta. 18W. foundation the ground was found to i)i» very wet,the place having been a meadow fdled in. Theproject was abandoned and the church edifice erected 231 THE AMERICAN METROPOLIS where it now stands. At that time Hudson Streetwas not opened beyond Laight Street. Leonard Lis-penards house stood very nearly or quite on a hnewith the direction of the street (in a full oppositionto the opening of the street), on an
The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time; New York City life in all its various phases . Block on West Side of Broadway, bctwien iTincc and Houston Streeta. 18W. foundation the ground was found to i)i» very wet,the place having been a meadow fdled in. Theproject was abandoned and the church edifice erected 231 THE AMERICAN METROPOLIS where it now stands. At that time Hudson Streetwas not opened beyond Laight Street. Leonard Lis-penards house stood very nearly or quite on a hnewith the direction of the street (in a full oppositionto the opening of the street), on an eminence whichvery properly might be called a hill. Broadway wasnot paved beyond the stone bridge, which stoodwhere Canal Street now crosses Broadway. Thiswas a famous resort for us school bo vs. It was. .Junction of Broadway and Bowery. ISiS. considered out of town; all north beyond as wellas the immediate vicinitj* was country, post and railfences dividing the land into different sized bridge spanned a small stream which convejedwater from the Collect on the east side of Broad-way (where now stands the Tombs) to the westside, where was an extensive meadow covering mostof the ground from Broadway to the North Riverand from Lispenard Street to Spring Street. There 26-Z NEW York: city lii<^e were occasional dry s[)()ts in the meadow, but mostlyit was fin extensive swamp. Across the stone bridj^o,northward, extended Broadway to as far as BleeckerStreet, whence (as I think now), ft)Uowing thecourse of Bleecker Street, r;in a road which con-nected witli Greenwich Lane and thence to Bloom-ingdale. On the east side of Broadway connectionwas had by side streets to the Bowerj, which thenceeastward was called the Boston Post Road. Improve-
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