. The greatest street in the world : the story of Broadway, old and new, from the Bowling Green to Albany . nty-third Street to this point. Continuing above on the eastside as far as Sixty-fifth Street, we find farms belongingto Medeef Eden, Emmet (to about Forty-ninth Street),Andrew Hopper, Cornelius Harsen, Deborah Burton,Catherine Cosine, Jane Ackerman, Rachel Cosine,and John H. Tallman. On the west side for the samedistance were farms belonging to John Jacob Astor, (aportion of the Eden farm on which the Hotel Astor nowstands), Francis Church, Philip Weber, Andrew Hopper,Striker, Jacob Hay
. The greatest street in the world : the story of Broadway, old and new, from the Bowling Green to Albany . nty-third Street to this point. Continuing above on the eastside as far as Sixty-fifth Street, we find farms belongingto Medeef Eden, Emmet (to about Forty-ninth Street),Andrew Hopper, Cornelius Harsen, Deborah Burton,Catherine Cosine, Jane Ackerman, Rachel Cosine,and John H. Tallman. On the west side for the samedistance were farms belonging to John Jacob Astor, (aportion of the Eden farm on which the Hotel Astor nowstands), Francis Church, Philip Weber, Andrew Hopper,Striker, Jacob Hayes, John Cosine, Hegeman, SarahSlack, and Havemeyer. Many of these farms extendeddown to the Hudson River even in 1800, and most ofthem had originally done so, but had been divided upamong new owners; and even the names given here mightnot answer for a different period. The history of nearlyall of them would be interesting had we the space togive it. During the spring of 1910 real estate interests wereespecially active in connection with the old Hopperfarm which was on both sides of the road. The first. 267 268 The Worlds Greatest Street of the name was Andries Hoppe, who came to NewNetherlands in 1652. His son, ]Mathjes Adolphus Hoppe,bought a farm extending diagonall}^ across the roadbetween Forty-eighth and Fifty-fifth streets down tothe shore of the Hudson River. His heirs inherited theproperty, which in time became divided up among themand passed to other owners. One of the old Hopperhomesteads stood for a century and a half at FiftiethStreet and Broadway until 1883, when William bought the property, and the old house wasrazed to make way for the American Horse Hopper (i 736-1824), for whom this house hadbeen built by his father, John Hopper, the second owner,was a merchant of New York, having a place of businessin Chatham Street. His town house was at Ann Streetand Broadway, the Hampden Hall of the Liberty Bo^-s,which later became the site of
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