. The greatest street in the world : the story of Broadway, old and new, from the Bowling Green to Albany . d Canal Street, ever before our eyes andgrowing larger as we get farther north is a beautifulchurch steeple, rising apparently in the middle of thethoroughfare. We find the reason at Tenth Street,where Broadway changes its course and w^here standsGrace Episcopal Church, which was built here in 1846,after the removal of the congregation from RectorStreet. By the plan of the commissioners of 1807, itwas intended that the two main roads of the island, theBowery and Broadway, should meet at
. The greatest street in the world : the story of Broadway, old and new, from the Bowling Green to Albany . d Canal Street, ever before our eyes andgrowing larger as we get farther north is a beautifulchurch steeple, rising apparently in the middle of thethoroughfare. We find the reason at Tenth Street,where Broadway changes its course and w^here standsGrace Episcopal Church, which was built here in 1846,after the removal of the congregation from RectorStreet. By the plan of the commissioners of 1807, itwas intended that the two main roads of the island, theBowery and Broadway, should meet at the Tulip i8o The Worlds Greatest Street tree, which was located in the present Union Squareabreast of Sixteenth Street. It was found, however,that if Broadway were continued in its previous straightcourse, the meeting of the two roads would be belowFourteenth Street; and the line of the Middle Road wastherefore changed at this point. Many suggestionshave been made to c u tEleventh Street through theGrace Church property, butthese have been unsuccessful,as the members of the con-gregation represent too. GRACE CHURCH AT THE CORNER OF TENTH STREET AND BROADWAY much wealth and influence. Tweed told the church boldlythat he was going to do it, and the church authoritiestold him to go ahead; but the street is not yet cut church has been the scene of many fashionableweddings, and at several of these there have been scenesof crowding, spoliation of decorations, and exhibitionsof bad manners which have made the New Yorker blush From Canal Street to Union Square i8i for the reputation of American women; for it has beenthe sensation-loving and uninvited women who have beenthe chief offenders. On the Tenth Street comer, there stood for many-years the restaurant and bakery conducted by theFleischmanns. The bread line here (only recentlysuspended) became one of the institutions of New York,for it was the custom of the firm to give away everynight the bread and rolls that had not
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