. The city of New York. pital being moved to Phila-delphia in 1790, he never occupied it. Hemoved to the Bunker Mansion at No. 39Broadway, where he remained until hisremoval to Philadelphia. With the final adoption of the FederalConstitution, the several cities began toforge ahead, and in 1800 New York Citywith its 60,000 inhabitants may be fairlysaid to have started on its career. At thesame time Philadelphia had about 105,000and Boston 80,000. Most of the people inNew York lived below Fulton Street, andGreenwich Village (now the 9th Ward) wasregarded as a summer resort, not to bevisited for
. The city of New York. pital being moved to Phila-delphia in 1790, he never occupied it. Hemoved to the Bunker Mansion at No. 39Broadway, where he remained until hisremoval to Philadelphia. With the final adoption of the FederalConstitution, the several cities began toforge ahead, and in 1800 New York Citywith its 60,000 inhabitants may be fairlysaid to have started on its career. At thesame time Philadelphia had about 105,000and Boston 80,000. Most of the people inNew York lived below Fulton Street, andGreenwich Village (now the 9th Ward) wasregarded as a summer resort, not to bevisited for a stay of less than two weeks atleast. New York in the NineteenthCentury After the removal of the capital to Phila-delphia, New York settled down to beginthat career of commercial importance whichmarked it at the beginning and has been itsdominant feature ever since. The country itself may have been saidto have been in that happy state whereit was making no new history. The cityof New York was small enough to be com- 63. pact, and yet large enough to give evidenceof its coming cosmopolitanism. The mainresidential section was below Fulton Street,which at that time did not extend west ofBroadway. The merchants to a large ex-tent lived over their stores. _ The wealthyfamilies maintained luxurious countryplaces along the East River and on thebanks of the Hudson. Their imported Lon-don carriages and livery and large retinuesof servants were the feature of the social lifein New York, and were reminiscent of theColonial days. Notwithstanding the fact that all menwere supposed to be free and equal after theadoption of the Federal Constitution, slav-ery was not abolished in New York Cityuntil almost a half century later. The lead-ing social centres of New York at that timewere clustered around the Battery, whichwas then and is today a most agreeable sec-tion of the city. There are still standing onState Street the houses of Roger Morris andArchibald Gracie, which are relics of thosedays
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