Identifier: manualofcorpora1857newy (find matches)
Title: Manual of the corporation of the city of New York
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: New York (N.Y.). Common Council Willis, Samuel J Valentine, David T. (David Thomas), 1801-1869
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Publisher: New York
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ch street 9,500 115 Christopher street, between Bleecker and Hudson 4,000 22 Eldridge street, (jail) ,. 7,000 40 Fifth street, between Second and Third avenues 1,066 Houston street, north side, between Lewis acd Columbia 1,500 593 Hudson street 6,881 Eighteenth street, between Seventh and Eighth avenues 3,700 Total $315,813 Public Parks. Bowling Green, foot of Broadway $135,000 00 Battery, fronting the harbor, foot of Broadway 3,000,000 00 Castle Garden 100,000 00 Park, bounded by Broadway, Chatham and Chamber streets 3,000,000 00 Buildings in the Park 600,000 00 Duane Park 15,000 00 Park at Cross, Anthony and Little Water streets 15,000 00 Washington square, bounded by Waverlcy place and Fourth, Macdougal and Wooster streets 816,000 00 Abingdon square, bounded by Hudson street, Eighth avenue and Troy street 12,000 00 •Triangular Park, Fourth, Christopher and Grove streets.... 15,000 00Central Park, Fifty-ninth and One hundred and sixth streets, Fifth and Eighth avenues 5,111,526 30
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The Old Store House at Turtle Bay 1852, The building from which the Liberty Boys led by Willett took the King's stores. Lith. G. Hayward, 120 Water St. N.Y. For D.T Valentine's Manuel 1857. From the “Manual of the Common Council of the City of New York” by D.T Valentine published from 1841 - 1870. Also known as the Valentine’s Manuals they contain hundreds of lithographs, maps and woodcuts of New York City and is the first comprehensive portrait of the city : 193 Estimated value. Union Park, bounded by Fourth and Fifth avenues, and Fourteenth and Seventeenth streets $504,000 00 Tompkins square, bounded by Avenues A and B, and Seventh and Tenth streets. 337,000 00 Stuyvesant square 196,000 00 (Madison square, bounded by Fourth and Fifth avenues, and Twenty-third and Twenty-sixth streets 520,000 00 Triangular Park, bounded by Fifth avenue, Broadway and Twenty-fifth street 10,000 00 Reservoir square 150,000 00 Manhattan square 88,000 00 Hamilton square, Yorkville t 97,000 00 Mount Morris square 40,000 00 $14,781,52Gi < Bulkheads, Wharves and Piers belonging to the Corporation of the city of New York. NORTH RIVER.No. of Piers. Estimated value. Bulkhead, Battery place $2,000 £12,13, £14 Albany street, and Cedar street 100,000 20 Dey street 50,000 21, 22, £23 Fulton street, and Vesey street 115,000 29 Warren street 90,000 30 Chambers street 60,000 31 Duane street 110,000 32, 533 Between Duane and Jay streets 45,000 £34 Harrison stre

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