Identifier: cityofnewyork00brow (find matches)
Title: The city of New York
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Brown, Henry Collins, 1862-1961
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : J. M. Ruston
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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aintained luxurious countryplaces along the East River and on thebanks of the Hudson. Their imported Lon-don carriages and livery and large retinuesof servants were the feature of the social lifein New York, and were reminiscent of theColonial days. Notwithstanding the fact that all menwere supposed to be free and equal after theadoption of the Federal Constitution, slav-ery was not abolished in New York Cityuntil almost a half century later. The lead-ing social centres of New York at that timewere clustered around the Battery, whichwas then and is today a most agreeable sec-tion of the city. There are still standing onState Street the houses of Roger Morris andArchibald Gracie, which are relics of thosedays. The Battery had a sea wall extendingalong its front and presented a beautifulshore to the waters of the Bay. It wasthickly wooded with poplars and elms, andwas a highly fashionable promenade duringthe summer_ season. During the War of1812 Fort Clinton was erected at its extreme6S
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. Nathan Hale Statue.Broadway side of City Hall Park. southern end and was connected with themain land by a wooden bridge. After thewar the fort became Castle Garden (1824),and for many years was a place of enter-tainment. It is, perhaps, most vividlyrecalled by old New Yorkers as the sceneof Jenny Linds great triumph under themanagement of P. T. Barnuni in 1855, andlater the emigrant station until 1891. To-day it is known as the Aquarium. Other centres of social life were lowerBroadway from No. i up to Rector Street,on the corner of which stood Grace Churchbefore it moved up town. Greenwich Streetfor two or three blocks north of the Batterywas known as Millionaires Row, wherewere the town residences of BrockholstLivingston, John Johnston, Robert Lenox,Adam Norrie and other distinguished mer-chants of that day. On the east side of the city, along Wall,Pine, Hanover Square, Pearl and Cherrystreets, were the honies of many well-knownfamilies of the richer class. The WaltonHouse, which s

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