. Tales of old New York ... Cattle Fair—Bowling GreenTapestry woven by the Herter looms. Copyright by the Hotel jNIcAlpin, where the tapestry may be seen. mentioned. This place, as we know, is now calledBowling Green. There a weekly market was held, andevery year a kirmess or fair where everybody had agood time eating, drinking, dancing and dressing upin fancy costumes. There, too, the children danced 54 TALES OF OLD NEW YORK around the May pole. As it was also tlie place wherethe soldiers paraded, it was called The View of Broad Street, 1659 Bowling Green is the locality where Broadw
. Tales of old New York ... Cattle Fair—Bowling GreenTapestry woven by the Herter looms. Copyright by the Hotel jNIcAlpin, where the tapestry may be seen. mentioned. This place, as we know, is now calledBowling Green. There a weekly market was held, andevery year a kirmess or fair where everybody had agood time eating, drinking, dancing and dressing upin fancy costumes. There, too, the children danced 54 TALES OF OLD NEW YORK around the May pole. As it was also tlie place wherethe soldiers paraded, it was called The View of Broad Street, 1659 Bowling Green is the locality where Broadwayreally begins, and there it is indeed a broad way. Theother long street to the right, you will see, if you exam-ine it closely, is a waterway with a bridge across it atone place. The latter is now called Bridge Street,although the bridge long ago disappeared. Likewisethe waterway is no more, having been filled up. Theplace where it was is now known as Broad Street. The City Tavern occupied the site of what is Pearl Street. It was buiTt in 1642, was afterwards NEW AMSTERDAM IN KIEFTS TIME 55 used as the City Hall, and remained standing until1700. It was called tlie ^stadt Jiuys and was usedfor holding court. There was one lawyer in the townand it is said that he did not have much to do. Peo-
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