The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time; New York City life in all its various phases . -^^jgr^ NEW YDiiK CITY LliE people of tho neighborhood irnHginecl that theirfriemlH who wore iu tho hospital for treatment werobein^ cut up by the doctors, and they did their beatto tear the detested hospital from its foundations. While Number 2^1 Broadway, on the corner ofVesey Street, was occupied in 1802 by Aaron Burr,Vice-President, Edward Livingston, Mayor of the. Comer of Broadway and Murray Stroet, ISS). City, lived in John Jacob Astors house, at Num-ber 22:3. One of the
The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time; New York City life in all its various phases . -^^jgr^ NEW YDiiK CITY LliE people of tho neighborhood irnHginecl that theirfriemlH who wore iu tho hospital for treatment werobein^ cut up by the doctors, and they did their beatto tear the detested hospital from its foundations. While Number 2^1 Broadway, on the corner ofVesey Street, was occupied in 1802 by Aaron Burr,Vice-President, Edward Livingston, Mayor of the. Comer of Broadway and Murray Stroet, ISS). City, lived in John Jacob Astors house, at Num-ber 22:3. One of the famous buildiii<jcs in this part ofBroadway was Washin^on Hall, which stood onthe site of the Stewart building, north of CliambersStreet. Chambers Street was run across the ne«^roburying ground. Washington Hall was built as aheadquarters for the Fedenlists and the oj)ponentsof old Tammany Hall. There were several clubsand associations which met in the building. AmongJ-2 217 THE AMERICAN METROPOLIS them was the Bread and Cheese Club, of whichJaines Fenunore Cooper, William CuUen Bryant, Fitz-Greene Halleck and Daniel Webster were and cheese were used in balloting for candi-dates, a piece of bread being a vote for admissionand a piece of cheese being equivalent to a black-ball. At AVashington Hall, on May 4, 1813, theCity Corporation gave a banquet to Captain Law-rence, who, in command of the Hornet, had de-feated and sunk the Peacock in fourteen
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