. Nooks & corners of old New York . re in thosedays. The house was built in 1770 byWalter Franklin, an importing mer-chant. It was torn down in site is marked by a tablet on theBridge abutment, which reads : THE FIRSTPRESIDENTIAL MANSIONNO. 1 CHERRY STREET OCCUPIED BYGEORGE WASHINGTONFROM APRIL 23, 1789TO FEBRUARY 2-3, I 79°ERECTED BY THEMARY WASHINGTON COLONIAL CHAPTER, 30, I B99 , At No. 7 Cherry Street gas was firstintroduced into the city in 1825. Thisis the Cherry Hill district, sadly deteri- NOOKS AND CORNERS orated from the merry days of its in-fancy. Its name is st
. Nooks & corners of old New York . re in thosedays. The house was built in 1770 byWalter Franklin, an importing mer-chant. It was torn down in site is marked by a tablet on theBridge abutment, which reads : THE FIRSTPRESIDENTIAL MANSIONNO. 1 CHERRY STREET OCCUPIED BYGEORGE WASHINGTONFROM APRIL 23, 1789TO FEBRUARY 2-3, I 79°ERECTED BY THEMARY WASHINGTON COLONIAL CHAPTER, 30, I B99 , At No. 7 Cherry Street gas was firstintroduced into the city in 1825. Thisis the Cherry Hill district, sadly deteri- NOOKS AND CORNERS orated from the merry days of its in-fancy. Its name is still preservedin Cherry Street, which is hemmed inby tenement-houses which the Italianpopulation crowd in almost inconceiv-able numbers. At the top of the hill,where these Italians drag out a crowdedexistence, Richard Sackett, an English-man, established a pleasure garden be-yond the city in 1670, and because itschief attraction was an orchard of cherrytrees, called it the Cherry Garden—aname that has since clung to the II
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