The New York herald., 1868-02-09
REAL ESTATE IN NEW YORK.


How Land Has Ipcrensed in yainc, &c.
It IS 237 years since the passengers Of Dutch
emigrant vessel landed the point of the Battery and
laid the foundation OF this proud and popuious city In
1901 it numbered 6l,o0o people and Broadway ter
minated at Catharine now called Anthony street, and
beyond hy country, soping on one side 10 fresh
water pond kolek the east and to the lowlands
Of Lispenards meadows the west. Tho limit Of habi-
tstions or streets which there buildings
the North river side Harrison street. the East river
side Rutgers street, with large spaces between in
which there we're eilIngs The houses "Bouerie
Ians las tho early designation OF that wide avenue
now sacred TO lager beer and Tony Pastor, whom the
favorte tramping ground OF the great unwashed and
unterGe furhcst out OF town were near Bullock now
Broome street, each side OF those houses soping
down to the river, open space OF cultivated
grounds and orchards The outside street the west
side Of the then Greenwich, from The Battery
up TO Cedar street. beyond which Dutch ancestors,
with the instinct inherited from Holland had COM
encsa ans eeroo o the sa pcps when
the waves revenged by dashng angriy against tue en-
bsnkments thus raised.
growth every obstacle been obliged TO give way.
Streets have been extended aud wdened regardless OF
old associations and cherished attachments. Grave
yards those popuous cltios OF the Dead have not been
sacred from the hand Of Improvement or the foot OF
prorress and the face c the carth unoven and rocky
has been oveed to slopng area Of gentle undulstoo
An idea OF the value In which property held then
may gathered from tho fact that o1er Of free
grant was made the trustees Of Trinity church OF
plot OF ground containing about six acrss near the cor
Of Canal street and broadway, which II was DC
cded, consideration. inexpedcnt 10 accept as the
land was no, worth fencing in. Piace In contrast
with that tho salo Of 10170 square feot OF
land for s40b 900 few days since In this immediate
neighborhood and mark the difference. The early
Dutch settlers all located along the shores Of the Hud-
son ana the sound the washings furnished them
with promising SOIL aud abandoned the Interior which
for long years after the outlying districts had answered
70 the enterprise Of the husbandman still remained
barren waste. This district Is pierced BY the Ffh
Fourth and Sixth avenues, all adorned by the most
iururapt mansions the finest wurehousesa conclu-
sion which the Ten Broecks, the Van Cortandis, the
sluyvesaats the Hardenbrocks he Schermerhorus the
waidrons the suydams, tho Van Dams or any other
"dams' would have regarded In their time ~ ut,ery
ridiculous.
or the noticeable buildings erected between that
period aud tho present the City Hall is The most re-
msrkabc and In It's antscedens, furnishes better sv.
donce OF the growth Of the than can DO afforded by
any smIlor odhce whose history can be now learned
It's foundation laid in 1908, and, as remarkaoe
tho sxavagsnce OF the present dav u may
expense only $50 scacey enough TO pay for cigars
for me hack drivers in those tmes). Tho erection
of the building progressed slowly IL COST when
Nm shsd 10 1914 e5s3734. In 1907 street commission
appointed 70 lay out the city ino streets ana
sqnsres which psrform mod by them after care
fu consideration. To them we owe the present. ad.
rabs plan OF The streets and avenues up town where
no crooked or winding thoroughfares confuse the san.
aer snd no curvinQ ways cd de render dicnlt
Tor rim 70 lud mis- road his boarding house tsay at
nkhl About 1881 appeared the nrH sign Of improve.