. The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time;. he first sidewalkswere built on Broadway, between Vesey and MurrayStreets, in 1790. They were made of brick, andwere just broad enough to allow two moderatelywide persons to pass each other, and if two veryample people met one had to step off. They wereconsidered to be evidences of great public middle of Broadway had been rudely pavedwith rough cobble stones as far as Trinity Churchin 1707, and it had been leveled as far as MaidenLane in 1709. In 1732 this resolution was adopted:Resolved, That this Corporation
. The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time;. he first sidewalkswere built on Broadway, between Vesey and MurrayStreets, in 1790. They were made of brick, andwere just broad enough to allow two moderatelywide persons to pass each other, and if two veryample people met one had to step off. They wereconsidered to be evidences of great public middle of Broadway had been rudely pavedwith rough cobble stones as far as Trinity Churchin 1707, and it had been leveled as far as MaidenLane in 1709. In 1732 this resolution was adopted:Resolved, That this Corporation will leave a pieceof land lying at the lower end of Broadway front-ing the Fort to make a Bowling Green there, withwalks therein for the beauty and ornament of saidstreet, as well as for the delight of the inhabitantsof this City. The privilege of operating the gameof bowling was let by the corporation to JohnChambers, Peter Bayard and Peter Jay for elevenyears at the annual rent of one pepper-corn. Thatthis great piece of enterprise met. with favor and 130 2 c7r §£. NEW YORK CITY LIFE encouraged the good old game is evident from theadvertisement pubhshed in 1745, as follows: TheBowling Green near the Fort being to be new laidwith Turff and rendered fit for Bowling this Sum-mer, whoever inclines to do that service may leavetheir proposals with the printer hereof. The statue of King George, which, as every oneknows, was pulled down by the patriots in 1776and melted into bullets, was set up in 1770. Theiron balls on the circular fence that incloses theGreen were broken off and sent to King Georgelike the lead bullets, but in a louder and more em-phatic way. The fractures are still apparent. Shortlj after General Washington was inaugu-rated as President, a heroic representation of thegreat patriot was made in wood, shaped and coloredto imitate the rosiest glow of life. It was the bestthat New York could do a hundred years ago. Themarvelous production remained in the Bowling Gree
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