. America's oldest daily newspaper. The New York Globe. at same building, at the headof Broad street. Along , in lieu of the tall office buildings, some of whichhouse nearly as many people as then lived in the entire city of New York,there were little brick dwellings. In one of them, at 12 Broadway, livedElizabeth Dunscomb, schoolmistress, and at 66 Wall street John Ellsworthconducted a boarding house, while Mrs. Fleming, mantua maker, had herabode at 94 Broad street. Where now the Hudson Terminal buildings reartheir huge bulk at 30 Church street there lived, in 1793, Henry Earle, hou
. America's oldest daily newspaper. The New York Globe. at same building, at the headof Broad street. Along , in lieu of the tall office buildings, some of whichhouse nearly as many people as then lived in the entire city of New York,there were little brick dwellings. In one of them, at 12 Broadway, livedElizabeth Dunscomb, schoolmistress, and at 66 Wall street John Ellsworthconducted a boarding house, while Mrs. Fleming, mantua maker, had herabode at 94 Broad street. Where now the Hudson Terminal buildings reartheir huge bulk at 30 Church street there lived, in 1793, Henry Earle, housecarpenter. On Broad street, now devoted to finance and to offices, therelived, at No. 38, by a strange irony, Lewis Hallam, a comedian. Therewas a toy shop in Nassau street, at No. 94, and George Stanton, coachmaker, conducted his business at 39 Broadway. View From Grand Street Hill, In those days the aristocrats of the city went to the uptown marketat Liberty street and Broadway, where they filled the baskets, carried by 21 «!BSf!l!™»(^^?&?. THE JUNCTION OF PARK ROW AND NASSAUSTREET IN 1793. The church on the right Is St. Pauls, which Is still standing on Broadway,between Fulton and Vesey streets. 22 their black slaves, with provisions. As they walked up Broadway theyhad a pleasing prospect past the houses and gardens that stretched to theHudson River, and Dr. John Bard, a physician of the time, has told ofthe fragrant odours from the apple orchards and buckwheat fields inbloom on the pleasant banks of the Jersey shore in view of their delightfuldwellings. Perhaps one of the best views In Manhattan Island was to be obtainedfrom the summit of a hill, where now is the corner of Grand street andBroadway. From that point the land gracefully fell off toward the brookat Canal street, up which was the Kings Bridge Road, subsequentlyBroadway. From that hill, we are told, was a view which in majesticloveliness was very captivating. Below, in the valley, on each side theroad, the
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