. The greatest street in the world : the story of Broadway, old and new, from the Bowling Green to Albany . le. This was the first streetin the city that was paved, and in consequence it becameknown as Stone Street. Broadway was not paved until1707, and then only from Trinity Church to the BowlingGreen; at the same time the residents were permitted toplant trees in front of their lots. In 1709, the street waslevelled as far as Maiden Lane. In 1691, an order wasmade concerning the paving of certain streets, amongwhich we find: Broadway, on both sides, ten feet,down to Mr. Smiths (opposite the B
. The greatest street in the world : the story of Broadway, old and new, from the Bowling Green to Albany . le. This was the first streetin the city that was paved, and in consequence it becameknown as Stone Street. Broadway was not paved until1707, and then only from Trinity Church to the BowlingGreen; at the same time the residents were permitted toplant trees in front of their lots. In 1709, the street waslevelled as far as Maiden Lane. In 1691, an order wasmade concerning the paving of certain streets, amongwhich we find: Broadway, on both sides, ten feet,down to Mr. Smiths (opposite the Bowling Green) onthe west side, and to Lucas Kiersteds on the it is probable that the vicinity of the Bowling Greenwas not paved until 1747, when a committee was ap-pointed to have so much of the street around the BowlingGreen and the fence along the fort paved as they mightsee proper. The paving consisted of cobblestones, andextended only ten feet in front of the houses, the middle ofthe street serving as a gutter and probably being a quag-mire in wet weather. The work fell upon the owners of. w H 33 34 The Worlds Greatest Street the lots, and in case of default in complying with theordinance there was a fine of twenty shillings to be leviedupon the recalcitrant householder. Anything in the way of sidewalks was at first voluntaryon the part of the property owners; they were calledstrookes by the Dutch. Sidewalks did not come in until1790, and then were made of brick. New York was farbehind the Quaker City in this respect, as shown by aremark of Dr. Franklin to the effect that a New Yorkercould be known by his gait, in shuffling over a Philadel-phia fine pavement like a parrot upon a mahogany Philadelphia visitor about 1835 remarks then that NewYorks large flagstones and wide foot pavements surpassPhiladelphia even for ease of walking, and the unusualwidth of the flagstone footways across the pebbled streetsat the corners is very superior. It must have been apl
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