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Title: The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time; New York City life in all its various phases
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Moss, Frank, 1860-1920 Parkhurst, C. H. (Charles Henry), 1842-1933
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) -- History New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York, P.F. Collier
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Sub-treasury—Insurance Companies—Wonderful Buildings—Banks half a Century ago—Burns Coffee-House—Bryant—A Riiiiculous Block un Broadway—St. Pauls Churchand Graveyard—Occupants of its Tombs—Montgomery—Montagues Tavern—Astor and the Astor House—St.Peters the first Catholic Chuich—Washington Hall—A.T. Stewart—Hetty Green—Colt Murder—Stokes and Fisk—End of old Broadway—American Retreat of 1776—General Grant Broadway below Wall Street is one of the old-est Dutch streets. It had its origin in the broadway, or, as the Dutch called it, the breede icey,that led from the entrance to the Fort up to thegate at the northern limit uf the City, at WallStreet. The governors farm and gardens were onthe west side of Broadway, the homes of the peo-ple were on the east side. The southern end ofthe street was broad, so that tlu- soldiers stationedin the Forf might have room to drill. When theDutch named it Breede iceg, they called it just 127 THE AMERICAN METROPOLIS
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NEW YORK CITY LIFE what it was, and witliout any idea that it wouldbe narrowed and extended many miles. This ex-plains the apparent contradiction between the nameand the appearance of Broadway. For so old a City, one in which there was suchimpoiiaut colonial and revolutionary histor), there isa remarkable absence of venerable buildings. Someof the surroundings of Trinity and St. Paulschurches have an ancient appearance, but thechurches themselves are surprisingly smart andbright. Between the old buildings soon to be de-molished, just north of the Standard Oil Companysgreat structure, and the row of weather-beatenhouses at Duane Street, there is no building whichappears to antedate the fifties, and few seem to beas old as that. When we speak to Europeans ofancient buildings in New York City, we make themsmile; for with them a house that is less than fivehundred (or a thousand) years old is hardly ripe;but the difference between such old residences as 19Pearl Street and 122 William Stre

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