. The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time;. West Side of Broadway, Corner of Spring Street, 1820. to build St. Johns Church (which now stands onVarick Street, between Beach and Laight Streets),on the corner of Hudson and Jay Streets. Someof the material for the foundation and cellar wallswere put upon the ground, but in digging for the. Block on West Side of Broadway, between Prince and Houston Streets, \SS>A. foundation the ground was found to be very wet,the place having been a meadow filled in. Theproject was abandoned and the church edifice erected 231 THE A
. The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time;. West Side of Broadway, Corner of Spring Street, 1820. to build St. Johns Church (which now stands onVarick Street, between Beach and Laight Streets),on the corner of Hudson and Jay Streets. Someof the material for the foundation and cellar wallswere put upon the ground, but in digging for the. Block on West Side of Broadway, between Prince and Houston Streets, \SS>A. foundation the ground was found to be very wet,the place having been a meadow filled in. Theproject was abandoned and the church edifice erected 231 THE AMERICAN METROPOLIS where it now stands. At that time Hudson Streetwas not opened beyond Laight Street. Leonard Lis-penards house stood very nearly or quite on a hnewith the direction of the street (in a full oppositionto the opening of the street), on an eminence whichvery properly might be called a hill. Broadway wasnot paved beyond the stone bridge, which stoodwhere Canal Street now crosses Broadway. Thiswas a famous resort for us schoolboys. It was
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