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(1816 To 1860) By Chas. H. Haswell Originally published 1896 |
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1830. TOMPKINS MARKET on Third Avenue, Sixth and
Seventh streets, was erected; it was rebuilt in 1852. Chapel Street, which had been widened from Leonard, was widened from Chambers to Barclay Street and named College Place. Marketfield, west of Broadway, was changed to Battery Place. Pine Street was widened at corner of William, and Ann widened to Nassau Street.
In this year there were fully nine lines of foreign sailing packets, viz. : Belfast, Carthagena, Greenock, Havana, Havre, Hull, Liverpool, London, and Vera Cruz; and of domestic there were four, viz.: Charleston, Mobile, New Orleans, and Savannah.
About this date the wooden picket-fence that had inclosed St. John's Park, at Hudson, Laight, Varick, and Beach streets, was replaced with iron. This property was held in common by the abutting owners, and was availed of solely by them, each being in possession of a key wherewith to enter it. For many years the neighborhood was one of the very highly aristocratic portions of the city. In 1869 this Park was purchased by Captain Vanderbilt in behalf of the New York Central & - Hudson River R. R., and on it were erected store-houses for a freight station and dépôt. The uptown movement had for some time affected the Park vicinity unfavorably, and this change by Vanderbilt completed the destruction of one of the most agreeable residence quarters known in New York.
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