. When old New York was young . ly part of the nineteenth century. Stand-ing at one end of this alley, one can hear theconstant buzz from the business-houses pre-paring freight for foreign ports. The otherend of the lane can be seen, and still fartheron the picturesque tangle of ships masts andrigging. In the midst of the sounds andsights of busy life, Cuylers Alley is alwaysquiet and deserted. At night it resembles atunnel, black and desolate. Walking up Broadway from the BowlingGreen, in the block next to Trinity Church-yard, one can discern, by looking closely, anasphalted court between two
. When old New York was young . ly part of the nineteenth century. Stand-ing at one end of this alley, one can hear theconstant buzz from the business-houses pre-paring freight for foreign ports. The otherend of the lane can be seen, and still fartheron the picturesque tangle of ships masts andrigging. In the midst of the sounds andsights of busy life, Cuylers Alley is alwaysquiet and deserted. At night it resembles atunnel, black and desolate. Walking up Broadway from the BowlingGreen, in the block next to Trinity Church-yard, one can discern, by looking closely, anasphalted court between two houses. At theentrance to this court is a narrow tablet bear-ing the words Tinpot Alley. This spaceis all that remains of a pretty green lanewhich was there in the eighteenth century,and which has gradually changed in conform-ity with its surroundings. It has been called [234] SOME FORGOTTEN BYWAYS Tinpot Alley the greater part of its city official, in 1886, wished to change thename to Exchange Alley, Many citizens. Broadway at Bowling Green in 1825. objected, including Rev. Morgan Dix, rectorof Trinity Church, and before the Board ofAldermen pleaded for the memories thathover about the old lane. They were suc- L235] SOME FORGOTTEN BYWAYS cessful, and soon after the tablet was set upat the entrance of Tinpot Alley by Dr. the spirit of vandalism was strong, andfinally another city official, without waitingfor official action, had the name ExchangeAlley placed upon a near-by lamp-post. There is at all times an atmosphere of quietserenity about Thames Street. Although itbranches out from Broadway at a pointwhich thunders with the roar of traffic, andat the Broadway edge almost touches WallStreet, it is the personification of all that isslow and easy-going. When Etienne De Lancey, a Huguenotnobleman and merchant prince, built a man-sion beside Trinity Churchyard in 1730, thepresent Thames Street was the grew to the dignity of a street more thana
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