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(1816 To 1860) By Chas. H. Haswell Originally published 1896 |
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1832. IN this year the following streets and places were widened, viz.: Ann, between Nassau and William; Cedar, between William and Pearl; Exchange Place at William; Spruce, between Nassau and Gold; William, on east side, from Wall to Pine; Hanover at Exchange Place; and Cross, Anthony, and Little Water streets. Sixth Street was changed to Waverly Place.
Jefferson Market, at intersection of Sixth Avenue and Greenwich Lane, was opened. There was annexed to it a fire-alarm bell tower and a steam-pump, which drew and forced water through a main to the elevated cistern or reservoir, as it was termed, in East Thirteenth Street near Broadway.
Union Square was enlarged, and as the required area invaded the property of the owners abutting in Broadway and Seventeenth Street and the Bowery (now Fourth Avenue), many of them protested against the measure with the usual vehemence and short-sightedness of people regarding their view of their own interests in similar cases.
I was present on an occasion when an old and wellknown sailor captain protested against the enlargement, as he was an old man and had settled down for life and did not wish to be disturbed. He said that it would be hard to lose his property-that is, to have the city take about five per cent. of it and make the balance in a few, years worth ten times the cost of the whole, which it did.
The Hall of Records, in the Park, originally built fair a jail (see page 26), which in 183o had been ordered to
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