. Nooks & corners of old New York . cks Cathedral, the corner-stone of which was laid in 1858. Theentire block on which it stands was, thepreceding year, given to the RomanCatholics for a nominal sum—one dol-lar—by the city. The Roman Catholic Orphan Asy-lum in the adjoining block, on FifthAvenue, between Fifty-first and Fifty-second Streets, was organized in 1825,but not incorporated until 1852, whenthe present buildings were erected. There is still standing, in Third NOOKS AND CORNERS Four Mile Avenue, lust above Fifty-seventh Street, Stone t . _ a milestone. It was once on the rostRoad, fou
. Nooks & corners of old New York . cks Cathedral, the corner-stone of which was laid in 1858. Theentire block on which it stands was, thepreceding year, given to the RomanCatholics for a nominal sum—one dol-lar—by the city. The Roman Catholic Orphan Asy-lum in the adjoining block, on FifthAvenue, between Fifty-first and Fifty-second Streets, was organized in 1825,but not incorporated until 1852, whenthe present buildings were erected. There is still standing, in Third NOOKS AND CORNERS Four Mile Avenue, lust above Fifty-seventh Street, Stone t . _ a milestone. It was once on the rostRoad, four miles from Federal Hall inWall Street. Close by Fiftieth Street and ThirdAvenue, a Potters Field was estab-lished about 1835. Near it was aspring of exceptionally pure water was carried away in cartsand supplied to the city. Evenafter the introduction of Crotonwater the water from this springcommanded a price of two cents apail from many who were stronglyprejudiced against water that had been suppliedthrough Hie** \ Memories ofNathan Hale,the Martyr Spyof the Revo-lution, hover x M \ -?~ He - stoney$ Ave- ntdt ft. OF OLD NEW YORK. about the neighborhood of Fifty-first Beekman . & 3 House Street and First Avenue. The Beek-man House stood just west of theAvenue, between Fifty-first and Fifty-second Streets, on the site where Gram-mar School No. 135 is now. It was in aroom of this house that Major Andreslept, and in the morning passed out todishonor ; and it was in a greenhouseon these grounds that Nathan Halepassed the last of his nights upon house was built in 1763 by a de-scendant of the William B«ekman whocame from Holland in 1647 with PeterStuyvesant. During the Revolution itwas the headquarters of General CharlesClinton and Sir William Howe. Itstood until 1874, by which time it haddegenerated into a crumbling tenement,and was demolished when it threatenedto fall of natural decay. A very few steps from the EastRiver, at Fifty-third Street,
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