. The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time;. Dutch Cottages at Broad and Garden Streets, 1800. in high favor. The bleating of lambs, and the odor ofbroiling chops, has never departed from Broad original owner of the sheep pasture wasDominie I^risius, whose land bounded on Jan Jan-sen Dams farm, which ran northward from first improvements on the sheep pasture werethe cottages which were built in 1600 at the north-east corner of Exchange Place and Broad Street, 83 THE AMEEICAN METROPOLIS now occupied by tlie Mills building. The sheeppasture was inclu
. The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time;. Dutch Cottages at Broad and Garden Streets, 1800. in high favor. The bleating of lambs, and the odor ofbroiling chops, has never departed from Broad original owner of the sheep pasture wasDominie I^risius, whose land bounded on Jan Jan-sen Dams farm, which ran northward from first improvements on the sheep pasture werethe cottages which were built in 1600 at the north-east corner of Exchange Place and Broad Street, 83 THE AMEEICAN METROPOLIS now occupied by tlie Mills building. The sheeppasture was included within Wall, Beaver, Newand William Streets. Cornelius Groesens occupiedthe land west of New Street fronting on was killed by the Indians in 1655, and with-. Mills Building, on the site of the Dutch Cottages. out doubt was buried in the graveyard at MorrisStreet and Broadway. When the town was surren-dered to the English in 1664 these were the im-provements on Wall Street: 1. The shanty of Dirck the wool-spinner. The house of Jan Jansen. The tap-room of Van Langendyck. The shanty of Abram Kermer. 84 4. NEW YORK CITY LIFE 6. Tlie shanty of Grietze the chimney-sweeper. 6. The tap-room of Jan Tunison, 7. A smaU house of Jan Videt. 8. A small house of Dirck Van Clyff. 9. A shanty of Pieter Jansen. 10. A general store kept by the great man ofthe street, Jacob Jansen Moesman. Thirty-six years afterward the southeast cornerof Broad and Wall Streets (now Drexel, Morgan &Companys corner) was sold for one hundred andsixty-three pounds, which was considered to indicatea phenomenal rise in real estate values. One hun-dred and fifty years ago, this region of palaceswas filled with shanties and squat cottages. Hogsroamed the streets, andthe nec
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