. The greatest street in the world : the story of Broadway, old and new, from the Bowling Green to Albany . y and had been at the siege of Quebecunder Wolfe. His prospects of advancement being poor,he resigned from the army and came to America, firstsettling at Kingsbridge. He married Janet Livingston,and thus became allied with one of the most powerfulfamilies of the province. At the outbreak of the Revo-lution he was made a brigadier-general and was ordered assecond in command to Schuyler in the Canadian expedi-tion of 1775. Owing to Schuylers illness, the commanddevolved upon Montgomery, wh
. The greatest street in the world : the story of Broadway, old and new, from the Bowling Green to Albany . y and had been at the siege of Quebecunder Wolfe. His prospects of advancement being poor,he resigned from the army and came to America, firstsettling at Kingsbridge. He married Janet Livingston,and thus became allied with one of the most powerfulfamilies of the province. At the outbreak of the Revo-lution he was made a brigadier-general and was ordered assecond in command to Schuyler in the Canadian expedi-tion of 1775. Owing to Schuylers illness, the commanddevolved upon Montgomery, who was made a major-general before the fatal assault upon the citadel of the bold promontory of Cape Diamond, one canread from the river St. Lawrence a sign maintained bythe Canadians, Here Montgomery fell, December 31, 1775. On the east side of the thoroughfare above Wall Street,the same conditions prevailed as below the latter the hotels were the Tremont Temperance Houseat Number no, the New York Athenaeum established in1824 at the corner of Pine Street, and the National Hotel. From an etching by Eliza Greatorex ST. Pauls chapel in 187573 74 The Worlds Greatest Street established in 1825 at Number 112, comer of Cedar name of William Cullen Bryant is attached to thehighway in the fact that in his earlier days he edited theNew York Review and AthencBum, whose ofhce was inthe building at the corner of Broadway and Pine Street,and for fifty-two years he was the editor of the New YorkEvening Post, located in its later days and at present atthe corner of Fulton Street and Broadway. The Equitable Life Insurance building, opposite Trin-ity, may be considered as the pioneer of the modem highoffice buildings. It was erected in 1870, and for manyyears afterwards the United States Weather Bureauhad its quarters on the roof. In the coiuse of time, thebuilding was over-topped by its neighbors, and the bureaufound lodgment in the tower of the Alanhattan Li
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