The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-09

gardens on the west, its only approach
being by the Bowery road. After the
sale Of the Delaney land in 1875 the owners
of Petersfleld laid out their estate in regular
streets, nine running east and west, crossed
by four others at right angles. This be-
came the new Bowery village. In 1928
the present city streets we're cut through,
wiping out the village streets. except a
part of Stuyvesant street, which still re.
mains, and Bowery village ceased to exist.
On the west side were three villages, not
self-governing like Harlem. nor owned by
n single person or family, as the early
Bowery village, yet each with an IN
dividuality of its own. These were Green
witch, Chelsea and Bloomingdale.
Greenwich, the estate OF Sir Peter Warren,
extended from about Houston TO Twenty
first street, west of Sixth avenue. Left, by
his widow to three children in 1889 they
sold the estate in small blocks, which were
quickly taken up during the yellow fever
epidemics of 1895. 1898 and 1888, During
1922 another outbreak brought hundreds
more 10 the village. Greenwich village
dates from 1875, when the first exodus
from the oity to Greenwich took place, al
though previous 10 tins many retainers
OF the Warren family got homes on the
upper part OF the estate. The village
had its own street system and successfully
re sisted the city's efforts TO cut through
streets according to the city plan. II had
it's own park, Hammond Square, from
lhlH 10 1000 dllNl III VS. u DA'ghag -
Chelsea, north Of Greenwich, was originally
the Clarke estate, which was left to Bishop
BENJAMIN Moore in 1902. IL extended AZ
that time from about Nineteenth to twenty
eighth street west of Eighth avenue. Sub
divided in 1916 on the line of Twenty-fourth
street. the lower part. left to Clarence G..
Moore, was soon after cut up into blocks. The
block between Nineteenth and lwentleth
streets. Ninth TO Tenth avenue, was given
to the General Theological Seminary IN
Tl,- .,nt~nr IN ri NJ the nTI0lnAl l11TKG
estate reverted to other Clarke heirs, who
divided their estate after the city streets
were cut through in lS30-S2, Part OF
the Moore estate remained in the Moore
family until 1902; the, greater part had,
however, passed TO the Cushman estate
bet ween 1880 and 1870. The London Terrace,
! Twenty-third street between Ninth and
Tenth avenues. and the Chelsea Cottages,
behind il on Twenty-fourth street, were
erected In ls45. The residents OF Chelsea
never exhibited the spirit Of local interest
shown by the jewellers OF other villages
and the term Chelsea is now only associated
with the square on which the seminary
stands and the old houses on Twenty-fourth
street east Of Ninth avenue. Blooming
dale, another old name now rarely heard,
was once loosely applied to the whole West
Side between Forty-second and l30th streets.
The Dutch ~Dloemsndaal wac applied to
| two tracts, one at the base Of what is now
Morningside Park, the other the low land
dDOuN NlAV WV VI ~
After the British occupation the high land
OF what is now Riverside and M~orningside
parks was called Bloomingdale Height.
In 1908 Teunis De Kay, who had a farm
on the heights. laid out a wagon road "a
the city, which was first called the ro0'
10 De Rays farm, later the BloomingdRs
road. Farmers established themselves
later along this road and those north Of
the Glass House Farm, which extended
from about Forty-second 10 Forty-seventh
streets, gave their addresses as Blooming.
dale. A Bloomingdale Square 10 laid out
on the city plan OF 1911, extending from
Ffty-third TO Fifty-seventh street, Eighth
20 Ninth avenue. North Of this there wert
only large estates and a few small farm
In 1850. Al that time the name was ap.
piled TO the area west OF Eighth avenue
IRON Ffty-third 20 i8oth street, although
the streets were not cut through. In 1891
all west OF Central Park was called Bloom
inSdsle. The name vaa gradually -
strioted until about 1878 only q few block
north and south Of Eighty-sixth stree