. Nooks & corners of old New York . ad been a wet tract of landmany feet below the grade. In 1844the street was extended from LewisStreet to the East River. The Bleecker Street Bank, whichwas just east of Broadway, on the northside of Bleecker Street, was moved inOctober, 1897, to Twenty-first Streetand Fourth Avenue, and called TheBank for Savings. It had originallybeen in the New York Institute Build-ing in City Hall Park. In the heart of the block inclosed by Marblethe Bowery, Second Avenue, Secondand Third Streets, is a hidden grave-yard. It is the New York MarbleCemetery, and so completel
. Nooks & corners of old New York . ad been a wet tract of landmany feet below the grade. In 1844the street was extended from LewisStreet to the East River. The Bleecker Street Bank, whichwas just east of Broadway, on the northside of Bleecker Street, was moved inOctober, 1897, to Twenty-first Streetand Fourth Avenue, and called TheBank for Savings. It had originallybeen in the New York Institute Build-ing in City Hall Park. In the heart of the block inclosed by Marblethe Bowery, Second Avenue, Secondand Third Streets, is a hidden grave-yard. It is the New York MarbleCemetery, and so completely has itbeen forgotten that its name no longerappears in the City Directory, On four 151 NOOKS AND CORNERS sides it is hemmed about by tenementsand business buildings, so that onecould walk past it for a lifetime withoutknowing that it was there. On theSecond Avenue side, the entrance isformed by a narrow passage betweenhouses, which is closed by an iron gate-way. But the gate is always locked,and at the apposite end of the passage. Erttrince toMarble Cemetery OF OLD NEW YORK is another gate of wood set in a brickwall, so high that nothing but the topsof trees can be seen beyond it. Fromthe upper rear windows of the neigh-boring tenements a view of the placecan be had. It is a wild spot, fourhundred feet by one hundred, coveredby a tangled growth of bushes andweeds, crossed by neglected paths, andenclosed by a wall seventeen feet highThere is no sign of a tombstone. Inthe southwest corner is a deadhouse ofrough hewn stone. On the south wallthe names of vault owners are these were some of the bestknown New Yorkers fifty years records of the city show that thisland was owned by Henry Eckford andMarion, his wife. They deeded it toAnthony Dey and George W. Strongwhen the cemetery corporation was or-ganized, July 30, 1830. There wereone hundred and fifty-six vaults, andfifteen hundred persons were buried 153 NOOKS AND CORNERS there. This cemetery is forgottena
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