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(1816 To 1860) By Chas. H. Haswell Originally published 1896 |
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1821. IN this year John Randall, Jr., completed his maps of the avenues and streets of the city as approved by the Commissioners in 1809.
In January a fire destroyed a great number of wooden buildings occupying the premises on Fulton, Front, and South streets, and Fulton Market was erected thereon, to replace the Fly Market at Maiden Lane, which was insufficient in area and inconvenient in its location. During that month snow was so deep in the streets that the chief engineer of the Fire Department issued an order permitting the members of two fire-engine companies to operate but one, in order that they should be better enabled to draw one engine through the streets. The cold was intense. On the 21st of January the North River from the Battery up was so wholly frozen over that many thousand persons crossed from the foot of Cortlandt Street to Paulus Hook (Jersey City). On the 25th foot passengers crossed the East River to Brooklyn and to Governor's Island; on the 26th a boat was brought up from Staten Island on the ice, and persons walked to Staten Island from Long Island. Anthracite coal was first introduced in furnaces this winter-an appropriate time.
February 12 the Mercantile Library of the City of New York opened at 49 Liberty Street, being removed, in 1826. to Cliff Street. In this year the Black Ball
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