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Excerpt from Old New York Down Town In the Dutch town, Pearl Street was the river's edge, the strand, and fashion congregated here. A canal ran through Broad Street, where there was also the first Swamp and the first tanneries and bootmakers. Broadway was yet unbuilt. At Ex change Place and Broadway there was a high hill. The Dutch Fort stood to the south of what is now Bowling Green. There was no Battery Park, only a fringe of rocks along the present State Street. In early English times Pearl Street, Broadway and Wall Street became the haunts of society and retail trade. Broadway was never intended to run beyond St. Paul's Church. It was planned to have the town extend to the east, with the Bowery Road, Park Row, and the Bowery and Third Avenue (the Post road to Boston), its back bone. Long after the little city had spread to the east, the west side was wide-spreading farms. The Hudson River came up very close to the present Greenwich Street. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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