The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-04-19
CITY improvements.
EXTENSIONS OF PARK PLACE THROJGH fHE GROUNDS
N r0y TnuYA COIxx0x-

OF COLUMBIA COLLxGx-
Among the improvements ~ our city nov being car
rsd on down town, there is nons Of Importance
than the connection OF Park place and Robin street.
through the grounds OF Ccfumbia College, While the
opening and connection Of thee streets may perhaps ad
vance the mercartilO interests Of our ci,ywhis may
elevate the worth Of real eststs upoa these Streets yet
II Ia sad reflection that this Improvement must be
made at the expense Of desesratBS aud utterly desty
ing one of the most hallowed spots of etropos.
Columbia College cne Of the oldest institutions Of
sarpBg, not only in State, but in our Unios 1;
wcs chartered by EDglish msnarch long before the
American Republic into existence. II was esiab
shsd when the city sxtsndsd hs limits beyond
st. paups Church, and from that tins tl
How y has continued its Of asefulnesp and
prospsty year after year. giving country ,teni
gencesnd tstelectuaI worth TO adcrrits history The
names most prominent Ii, our csuntry's annals are
sssociatsd with Columbia College their Alma MI Ger.
John Jc5, Aaron Burr, Alex sAder Hamso-t and png
array oi men whose fame has flied the worli
trained in old Columbia, and stsu trad tho gresu
now ydns to the pickAxo and shovel and oifappe
Th.i. somsthng Of GelAt which took place boz
tween the oG friends Of Columbia College ehs eroy
of opening the Streets before txs question decided
and the aborers ordered to WORK. 1t finally eclde
the old College green expired snd wers given up.
Some six weeks ago the workman commenced their
abors sf opa,ins the strees which. are now
street extends directly through tbs middle OF the college
ground, leaving high smbankmo,t on each side The
excavation tie west side of green next to Ro-
binson street 10 about twenty feet Deep on ,tue
east side next to Park place, about hve feet. he
width OF the grs~n from street to- s about We
hundred feet making, when the is cor,oaetea a
grade OF about ten fifteen feet within distan ,
aoout the same grade in Barclay betvsen Co
lege place ana Church The Of exca vatSs
was mmenced the Robinson street side and kra
now been carried through something two huudrea
ieet nearly to the MIDDLE Of the green half way to
Park place. The dirt carried or and OF It damp
ed upon the Battery The width the street Is to be-
from stors to store each sde only about seventy
feet; just the width Of Robinson street. and about en
ty feet narrower than Park place.
This improvement when finished viii riys another
street to the city. that will rank among the frat in
mercantile wealth. The property upon this street will
be very valuable and already most of it. if not all has
been bought from the Corporation of the College, ut
good price, The lot on the of Church street
has been bought by Wilson G. Hunt, Esq, and upon
this be designs erecting Of the finest buildings down
town. This lot, projecting twenty feet beyond Park
place has front OF this width looking on BroadwsB
and In tins is well calculated for the erection Of
magnificent building such Mr. Hunt intends putt.uy
up. There will be Other buildings Of fine description,
erected when the street is finished which will be reY
haps some time in May next.