. The new New York : a commentary on the place and the people . iA ^ *^ »#»;* ^^^T--^9*fW/-. Pl. 36. — Grace Church, Broadway THE EBB TIDE 165 Dutch, and when it passed to the EngHsh it had a subur-ban character for many years. It was a place where theWarrens, the Bayards, and the De Lanceys had countryhomes. The building up of it was a gradual affair. Itwas of some proportions when in 1811 the City Plan,whereby New York was cut up into checkerboardblocks, came into existence. The new plan jostledthe rambling nature of Greenwich to the breaking point,and yet left some of its quarter-circle and
. The new New York : a commentary on the place and the people . iA ^ *^ »#»;* ^^^T--^9*fW/-. Pl. 36. — Grace Church, Broadway THE EBB TIDE 165 Dutch, and when it passed to the EngHsh it had a subur-ban character for many years. It was a place where theWarrens, the Bayards, and the De Lanceys had countryhomes. The building up of it was a gradual affair. Itwas of some proportions when in 1811 the City Plan,whereby New York was cut up into checkerboardblocks, came into existence. The new plan jostledthe rambling nature of Greenwich to the breaking point,and yet left some of its quarter-circle and corkscrewstreets sufficiently intact for the people of the middlenineteenth century to build substantial dwellings alongthem. These streets with their red-brick buildings remainto us and make up perhaps the most picturesque glimpseof old New York that we have. Along them one seesscattered here and there the gable-wind owed woodenhouses of an earlier period, with a quaint St. LukesChapel, or a scrap of a park, or trees and vines andgarden walls that now look strange in the great city.
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