. The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time;. NEW YORK CITY LIFE people of the neighborhood imagined that theirfriends who were in the hospital for treatment werebeing cut up by the doctors, and they did their bestto tear the detested hospital from its foundations. While Number • 221 Broadway, on the corner ofVesey Street, was occupied in 1802 by Aaron Burr,Vice-President, Edward Livingston, Mayor of the. -;;?;?? -riiK Corner of Broadway and Murray Street, 1820. City, lived in John Jacob Astors house, at Num-ber 223. One of the famous buildings in this part ofBroadwa
. The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time;. NEW YORK CITY LIFE people of the neighborhood imagined that theirfriends who were in the hospital for treatment werebeing cut up by the doctors, and they did their bestto tear the detested hospital from its foundations. While Number • 221 Broadway, on the corner ofVesey Street, was occupied in 1802 by Aaron Burr,Vice-President, Edward Livingston, Mayor of the. -;;?;?? -riiK Corner of Broadway and Murray Street, 1820. City, lived in John Jacob Astors house, at Num-ber 223. One of the famous buildings in this part ofBroadway was Washington Hall, which stood onthe site of the Stewart building, north of CliambersStreet. Chambers Street was run across the negroburying ground. Washington Hall was built as aheadquarters for the Feder-ilists and the opponentsof old Tammany Hall. There were several clubsand associations which met in the building. AmongJ-3 217 THE AMERICAN METROPOLIS them was the Bread and Cheese Club, of whichJames Fenimore Cooper, Wilham CuUen Bryant, Fitz-Greene Halleck and Daniel Webster were and cheese were used in balloting for candi-dates, a piece of bread being a vote for admissionand a piece of cheese being equivalent to a black-ball. At Washington Hall, on May 4, 1813, theCity Corporation gave a banquet to Captain Law-rence, who, in command of the Hornet, had de-feated and sunk the Peacock in fourteen mi
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