New York by Daniel Curry

Author:Daniel Curry [Curry, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Geschichte
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2017-07-19T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER VIII. - CONDITION AND PROGRESS — 1790-1810.

164. Further extension.

The twenty years reaching from 1790 to 1810, formed a period of unprecedented prosperity in the pecuniary and industrial affairs of New York. During this time also the city suffered most severely from the visitations of disease. In 1791 the old wards were all abolished and a new distribution made, and the new wards, instead of being named, as were the old ones, were numbered from one to seven. During this and the next year many new streets were opened, and others formerly opened for a portion of their present length, were greatly extended. Many new buildings were also erected, some of them of a class somewhat advanced above the style that had generally prevailed hitherto. The shore of the East River, above Coentiesslip, was especially a scene of activity at this time, and at that early period the encroachments upon the water were carried to a point beyond which they have not since been permitted to extend. On the East River a point had been already reached beyond which it was not considered proper to carry out the water line; and, accordingly, a law was procured from the State legislature, forbidding the extension of the wharves beyond a point already reached by some of them. Toward the Hudson River the city was also advancing rapidly, and soon after West-street was surveyed and laid out, and made the permanent limit of the city in that direction; and " up-town," that is, about the College, the Common, Chatham-street, and Catharine-street, the city was advancing with an unparalleled growth.

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