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(1816 To 1860) By Chas. H. Haswell Originally published 1896 |
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1834. THE first steam motor of the Harlem Railroad from terminus to Fourteenth Street was now employed, and later in the year the road was opened to Yorkville. February 11, Platt Street was opened, Pine Street was again widened, from Broadway to Nassau Street; Beaver, from William to Broad Street; Fulton, from Broadway to Ryder's Alley; and Gold from Frankfort to Fulton Street, were widened. In this year Augustus Street was renamed City Hall Place.
In April of the previous year Wooster Street (University Place) was opened from Eighth Street to Fourteenth Street.
I recollect but one florist, and that was a Thomas Hogg, who had a store on Bowery Hill in 1828, in 1832 at 388 Broadway, and in this year in Broadway near Twenty-third Street. The custom of funeral wreaths, flowers in the churches at Easter, bouquets at dinners, weddings, or balls, and boutonnières, was unknown.
In this year there were but thirteen markets in the
city. About this period was constructed, in Thirteenth Street near Fourth Avenue, a tank designed to furnish water for extinguishing fires; it was in elevation at its surface 104 feet above tide-water, with a capacity of 233,000 gallons, and was supplied from a point where the Jefferson Market and Court House now stand; the water being drawn up from a well supplied from several conducting galleries radiating therefrom, and forced by a steam-engine of 12-horse power. (See ante, p. 264.)
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