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NYC STREETS
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2. South Street is 600 feet beyond the original shoreline of NYC. Many 9th century merchants had stores, storerooms and accounting offices called counting houses on South Street. The site of George Washington's first presidential mansion was at #1 Cherry Street by an anchorage at Pearl & Dover. The old plaque is visible but basically not readable to the public these days because of steelwork that was attached to support the bridge. What bridge blocks the site of George Washington's first presidential mansion ?
5. Poisonous weeds in NYC forests killed 20 animals in 1625, so a small wall was erected in 1644 to keep straying pigs, horses, sheep and cattle from destroying precious uptown fields. What animal stayed on as sanitation workers till 1860 ? There was tens of thousands of them cleaning up the major cities.
6. What was the approximate street location of Love Lane (also known as Abingdon Road) in old NYC ?
8. Citizens decided to create a marble William Pitt statue in 1766 for his defense of the American colonies and for his stance on the repeal of the Stamp act. What was the cross street (besides Wall street) in NYC where the 1770 marble statue of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, stood until 1776 ?
9. In 1823, the home of the founder of Con Edison (Samuel Leggett), was the first gas lit house in Manhattan. The home was serviced from a gas pipe from the Pearl Street Con Edision headquarters. What NYC street had the first gas lit house in Manhattan ?
12. NYC's first City Hall was at the NW corner of the current streets of Pearl and what Slip ?
13. 802 Broadway (at 10th street) was the second location of Grace Church, it was built in 1846 by Henry Brevoort's 23 year old nephew James Renwick, Junior. Millionaire baker Louis Fleischmann's Vienna Model Bakery opened next to Grace Church in 1876. Fleischmann called his charity the Bread Line, which gave out up to 500 loaves each night. The paved Broadway ended at 8th street in 1809. Broadways bend on 10th Street is due to Henry Brevoort's beautiful favorite old tree (under which he often smoked). Brevoort's orchard also stopped 11th street from crossing Broadway and the Bowery. What kind of orchard was it ?
17. Cooper Union (1854) stands on the 2 mile stone spot (away from City Hall). The 2 mile site was also the home to Mechanics Engine 28 who organized in 1805. The ancient milestone said 2 miles to City Hall. Where on the Bowery was the 1 mile stone ?
18. The Catherine Street Market was between Cherry and Water Streets. A man named Hendrick named Catherine Street and Catherine Slip after his wife Catherine. Catherine was the daugther of 1698 mayor Johannes De Peyster (1666–1711), and the niece of Abraham DePeyster. What was the last name of Catharine and Hendrick ?
19. After surrendering to the British, Peter Stuyvesant marched with Dutch soldiers to the beat of loud drums, down a lower NYC street to the Broad Street canal. A rowboat took him to where his boat to Holland was docked. What street did Peter Stuyvesant march down after finally surrendering to the British in 1664 ?
21. In 1676, the shoemakers tan pits off the west side of Broad Street between Beaver and Exchange, were all closed down and the Broad street ditch filled in. After August 1676, the tan pits were moved just outside the city walls, at the bottom of the hill on Maiden Lane, just east of what street ?
22. The Stadt Huys sat alone on no street (just north of what would be Coenties Slip), located in the area by Pearl street known as the Strand, and was just called the Waterside.
23. From this list of old NYC street names on the old Stuyvesant Farm grid, find one old NYC street which only existed on paper, and was never built or developed ? Quick, Verplanck, Nicholas William, Margaret, Eliza, Judith, Martha, Ten Broeck, Winthrop, Gerard, Dow, White Cruger, Dove, Spruce, Rensselaer, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerp and Bruges streets.
24. Inspector Thomas F Byrnes created the dead line and Rouges Gallery while Chief of Detectives for NYC, he was fired by Teddy Roosevelt. What street in NYC was the dead line, over which any wanted criminal could be arrested on sight ?
25. The turn of the century brought one NYC street City Hall, the Market House, the Sugar House, Coffee Houses, and in 1731 the slave market. What street was this which also had the first permanent pavement in NYC ?
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1. Cornelia Street in 1794 was part of the farm of Robert Herring. He named the the street after his granddaughter Cornelia in 1794. Chrystie Streets was named after a War of 1812 hero, Lieutenant Colonel John Chrystie. Bethune Street opened 1827, was named for Johanna Bethune, co-founder of the New York Orphan Asylum. Elizabeth and Ann (Former name of Grand Street, the Downtown Ann was named for one of Gerardus Beekmans kids) were kids from the first wife of Nicholas Byardt (Bayard). What other NYC street was named for the daughters of Nicholas Byardt (Bayard) ?
2. Dog carts were prohibited from NYC streets in 1870. Dog carts pulled water from clean wells and pumps, and also carted away garbage. Pre Civil war, what NYC street was known as the Thief's Highway ?
3. Stone Street was called Brouwer Street, before it became NYC's first cobble stone street in 1657. Besides the town brewery , there was an early school on Stone Street. The popular brewery kicked up so much dirt, that it was needed to become the first paved street. Between Wall and Maiden Lane what downtown NYC street was called Pie Womans Lane in the late 1600's ?
4. Petticoat Lane was an old name for Marketfield Street which once ran from Broad Street to the Hudson River. Petticoat Lane was the location of the first French Church in NYC that was erected in 1688. It was named Petticoat Lane because it was NYC's first district. What kind of district was it ?
7. What is the longest east to west street in lower Manhattan ?
10. NYC gives pedestrians less time to cross one street than any other street that even comes close to its size. What Manhattan street is the biggest at its widest stretch with traffic lights ?
11. Washington Street was named after General George, and the namesake of a huge west side market on top of landfill. Hudson Street never went south of Chambers, and it did not bank the Hudson River. What often flooded street was the former bank of the Hudson River ?
13. What Gouverneur was Gouverneur lane and Gouverneur Slip named after ?
14. A grid was established to the east of the fort, but not in straight lines. NYC's first streets followed a small grid like Amstersdam, they bent to keep the wind from causing wind tunnels as they do in present uptown NYC. What was the shape of this street grid ?
15. William Street was called Smee and then as Smit Street because the Blacksmith was located north of Maiden Lane on Williams eastern side. Pine Street was called Tienhoven Street. Named after Cornelis Van Tienhoven, an accountant who became sheriff. Exchange Place was called Garden Street and went up Barrack Hill to the west. The Broad street canal stretched to Exchange Place in 1660. Burghers Path is now what downtown NYC street ?
16. The famous basement café of a 1854 Hotel at 11-15 Fifth Avenue was the stomping grounds of many radical artists like Isadora Duncan, and Eugene O Neal. This famous hotel was razed one hundred years later in 1954. A hotel called the St Germain was built and opened around the same year (1854) on 5th Avenue and 21st street. What was the name of this first hotel on lower 5th Avenue ?
20. A few streets were old Indian paths like Broadway (Beaver Trail), Park Row and the Bowery. The first settlers who were traders took the best plots by the water, the rest that followed made roads anywhere they wanted. Settlers built their houses on the side of the cow paths that were slowly worn into the landscape. The early settlers built their homes anywhere they wanted, but the roads were a bit more structured. The streets followed paths made by citizens who traveled to ferrys, markets, churches and north out of town. The route to Peck Slip ferry to Brooklyn down Stone Street was the first trodden path that made street status. After one block to Broad street what did Stone street turn into that became NYC's first street ?
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