Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library Gift of Seymour B. Durst Old York Library MAP OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK AND ISLAND OF MANHATTAN; WITH EXPLANATORY REMARKS AND I / BY WILLIAM BRIDGES, jf Architect and City Surveyor. /sir NEW-YORK: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, By T. k J. Swords, No. 160 Peurl-Stree* 1811. G 3 90S . B7 ' >>V"T District of New-York, ss. Be IT REMEMBERED, that on the sixteenth day of November, in the thirty-sixth year of the Inde- pendence of the United Stales of America, William (L.S.) Bridges, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the tide ©fa Book, the right whereof he claims as Author and Proprietor, in the words following, t© wit: "Map of the City of New-York and Island of Manhattan; with Ex- planatory Remarks and References. By William Bridges, Architect and City Surveyor." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled " An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned/' And also to an Act, entitled " An Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein men- tioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, en- graving, and etching historical and other prints." CHARLES CLINTON, Clerk of the District of New-York. ADVERTISEMENT The Map of thai part of the Cit? which lies south •f Green wich-Lane and North-Street, and which was not included in the powers vested in the Commis- sioners, contains all the alterations ,and improvements therein, and the intended permanent lines on both ri- vers, together with BlackivclVs, Randell's, and Great Barn Islands, situate on the East-River, from act mil survevs. # An Act relative to Improvements, touching the laying out of Streets and Roads in the City of New-York, and Jor other purposes. ^ $-^0 Passed April 3, 1807. I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That Governeur Morris, Simeon De Witt, and John Rutherford, be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners of streets and roads in the City of New- York, for the purpose of performing the several acts and duties hereinafter prescribed. II. And be it further enacted, That in case of the death, resignation, or refusal to act of any of the said Commissioners, it shall and may be lawful for the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of New- York, in Common Council convened, as often as such event shall happen, to appoint and com- mission a suitable person in the place of such Commissioner so dying, resigning, or re- fusing to act, who shall have all the power and authority vested in a Commissioner by ( ■« ) this act: Provided, That such person, so to be appointed by the Common Council, shall be a citizen of the United States, and shall not be a proprietor of, nor interested in any land in either of the sixth, seventh, eighth, or ninth wards of the said City of New- York. III. And be it further enacted. That the powers and duties hereby given to the said Commissioners, shall be exercised and dis- charged by the said Commissioners within four years from the passing of this act, and not after. IV. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Com- missioners, or any two of them, and they shall have and possess exclusive power to lay out streets, roads, and public squares, of such width, extent, and direction, as to them shall seem most conducive to public good, and to shut up, or direct to be shut up, any streets or parts thereof which have been heretofore laid out, and not accepted by the Common Council of the said City, within that part of the said City of New- York to the northward of a line commencing at the ( 7 ) wharf of George Clinton, on Hudson River, thence running through Fitzroy-road, Green- wich-lane and Art-street, to the Bowery-road ; thence down the Bowery-road, to North- street; thence through North-street, in its present direction, to the East River: and no square or plot of ground, made by the in- tersection of any streets, to be laid out by the said Commissioners, shall ever, after the streets around the same shall be opened, be or remain divided by any public or open lane, alley, street or thoroughfare. And it shall be the duty of the said Commissioners to lay out the leading streets and great ave- nues, by them to be laid out, of a width not less than sixty feet, and in general to lay out said streets, roads, and public squares, of such ample width as they may deem suf- ficient to secure a free and abundant circu- lation of air among said streets and public squares when the same shall be built upon; and said Commissioners shall not, in any case, lay out any street of less than fifty feet in width. V. And be it further enaeted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Com- ( 8 ) missioners, and for all persons acting under their authority, to enter, in the day time, into and upon any lands, tenements or here- ditaments which they shall deem necessary to be surveyed, used or converted for the laying out, opening, and forming of any street or road as aforesaid ; and that the said Commissioners, or any two of them, shall cause three similar maps of such streets and roads, so to be laid out by them as aforesaid, and of the shores bounding the lands by them surveyed, to be made upon an extensive scale, accompanied with such field notes and elucidatory remarks as the nature of the subject may require; which maps, accom- panied by such field notes and remarks, shall be attested to by the said Commission- ers, or any two of them, before any person authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds and conveyances, and be filed, one in the office of the Secretary of State, to re- main of record; one other to be filed in the office of the Clerk of the City and County of New-York, to remain of record; and the other of said maps to belong to the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New- York; and that the said Com- ( » ) missioncrs shall erect suitable and durable monuments at the most conspicuous angles, or those which shall be the most eligible for that purpose, and upon the shores or* the North and East Rivers, to be noted on said maps; and that the said Commissioners shall take the elevations of the several intersec- tions or squares above high-water murk, within the boundaries aforesaid, or so many of them as they may think sufficient, and shall delineate them, together with all such hills, valleys, inlets and streams as may be necessary on the said maps, so as to render the same explicit and intelligible. VI. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for either of the said Commis- sioners, during the time he shall be in office, directly or indirectly, to purchase or con- tract for any lands, tenements or heredita- ments in that part of the City of New- York to be laid out and regulated as aforesaid; and that every deed, contract or conveyance con- trary to the intent hereof shall be utterly void. VII. And be it further enacted, That be- ( io ) fore the said Commissioners enter upon the duties of their appointment, they shall se- verally take and subscribe an oath before the Mayor or Recorder of the City of New- York, faithfully and impartially to execute the duties of their said appointment. VIII. And be it further enacted. That the plans and surveys of the said Commissioners, or any two of them, in respect to the laying out of streets and roads within the bounda- ries aforesaid, and the maps of the same, so to be made by them, or any two of them, as aforesaid, shall be final and conclusive, as well in respect to the said Mayor, Alder- men, and Commonalty, as in respect to the owners and occupants of lands, tenements, and hereditaments within the boundaries aforesaid, and in respect to all other persons whomsoever. IX. And be it further enacted, That when- ever the said Mayor, Aldermen and Com- monalty of the City of New- York, shall be desirous, or require, as hereafter mentioned, to open any streets, roads or public squares, so to be laid out as aforesaid, it shall be law- ( " ) fill for the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Com- monalty, to agree with the owner or owners of such lands, tenements or hereditaments as will be required for that purpose, for and about a reasonable compensation to be made to him, her, or them, for such lands, tene- ments, or hereditaments; and in case of dis- agreement, or in case such owner or ©triers shall be feme covert, under age, non com- pos mentis, or out of the City of New-York, that then it shall be lawful for the Justices ef the Supreme Court of this State, or any one of them, upon the application of either party, to nominate and appoint three discreet and disinterested persons, being citizens of said State, Commissioners to view the said lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and to esti- mate the damage such owner or owners will respectively suffer, by relinquishing the lands so required of them for the purposes afore- said; and also in cases where the benefit ex- ceeds the value of the land required, to esti- mate the said benefit, after deducting the value of said land, and to report thereupon to the said Court without delay; and upon the coming in of such report, signed bv the said last mentioned persons, or any two of ( 12 ) them, and the confirmation thereof by the said Court, the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of New- York, shall proceed to, and assess the same upon all the property intended to be benefited thereby, in the manner directed in and by the eleventh section of the act, entitled, " An act for re- gulating the buildings, streets, wharves, and slips in the City of New- York," passed the 3d of April, 1801; which assessment shall be binding and conclusive, and be collected in the manner therein prescribed, for the use of, and paid to those persons in whose favour the report for compensation may be made (first deducting the sum or sums for which they are assessed, for defraying the expense of opening of said street, with law- ful interest from the confirmation of the same) in full compensation for such lands, tene- ments, and hereditaments aforesaid ; and upon such assessment being completed, the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of New-York, shall be, and become seized in fee, of all such lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and thereupon the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the Citf of New- York, or any person acting ( 13 ) under their authority, may immediately take possession of the same, without any suit or proceeding at law for that purpose, in trust: Nevertheless, That the same be kept open for a public street, road, or public squares, for ever; and whenever so many proprietors of lands, fronting on any street, delineated on said map, as aforesaid, as together own three- fourth parts of the front of said lands, shall, by petition, require or desire said Mayor, Al- dermen, and Commonalty to open any such street, or any part thereof, the said xMayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty, shall take such measures as aforesaid, for opening the same: Provided, That said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty may permit any building, which shall be in part, or in whole, included within the limits of any such street, to re- main unremoved for such time as they shall think proper: Provided also, That if any building shall be in whole or in part erected within the limits of any such street, road, or public square, laid out as aforesaid, after the maps herein mentioned shall be made and hied, it shall be lawful for the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty, to give evi- dence thereof before the Commissioners* ( 1* ) who shall assess the damages; and that it shall not be lawful for the Commissioners to allow any sum or compensation whatsoever for any building or buildings that may be built, placed, or erected, in part or in whole on said streets, roads, or public squares, after the said maps shall be made and filed. X. And be it further enacted, That when- ever any of the proprietors of any such lands, tenements, hereditaments, and premises, shall be infants, non compos mentis, or absent from the City of New- York, the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty, may pay the sums mentioned in such report, that would be coming to such proprietors respectively, into the said Supreme Court, to be secured, disposed of, and improved, as the said Court shall direct; and such payment shall be equally valid and effectual, as if made to the proprietors themselves, if they had been pre- sent, of full age and compos mentis. XL And be it further enacted, That all the monies which the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty expend, or become bound to ex- pend, in consequence of the provisions of this ( 15 ) act, shall be estimated and assessed among all the owners or occupants of all houses and lot- of ground intended to be benefited thereby, in the manner directed in and by the eleventh section of the act, entitled, " An act for regu- lating the buildings, streets, wharves* and slips in the City of New- York," passed the 3d day of April, 1801; which estimates and assess- ments shall be binding and conclusive, and be collected in the manner therein pre- scribed; and the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty, may direct the sums, reported by the aforesaid Commissioners to be due from the owner or owners of land benefited as aforesaid, to be charged against them re- spectively in the said assessment: Provided however, That nothing herein contained shall authorize any further sum, in addition to the sum mentioned in the said report, to be as- sessed upon said owner or owners, except their due proportion of the expenses of re- moving any buildings and improvements upon the said streets, roads, or public square 1 -, and the costs and expenses incurred by the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty, in prosecuting any suit or suits for the pur- poses aforesaid. ( 16 ) XII. And be it further enacted, That each of the said Commissioners shall be entitled to receive the sum of not more than four dol- lars, (besides all reasonable expenses for maps, field notes, monuments, chain bearers, and assistants) for each day they shall respectively be actually employed in the duties hereby assigned to them, the same to be paid by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of New- York, and assessed as aforesaid; and that the powers of the said Commissioners shall cease when they shall have completed the maps aforesaid, with the field books and remarks aforesaid, and delivered, attested to, and filed the same respectively as aforesaid; and that in case of the death of one of the said Commissioners, the survivors shall have power to proceed in the execution of this act, until a successor of the deceased shall be appointed. XIII. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be considered, adjudged, and taken to be a public act, and be liberally expound- ed and construed to advance the ends there- of. ( n ) XIV. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall be sued for any tiling done in pursuance of this act, it shall be lawful for such person to plead the general issue, and to give this act and the special matter of defence in evidence under such plea. XV. And whereas for the purpose of duly regulating and constructing slips and basons, and for running out wharves and piers, it is essential that the right to the land under wa- ter, below low-water mark, should be vested in the Corporation of the City of New- York; Be it there/ore further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners of the Land-office, and they are hereby directed to issue letters patent, granting to the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of New- York, and their successors for ever, all the right and title of the people of this State, to the lands covered with water, along the easeily shore of the North or Hudson's River, contiguous to, and adjoining the lands of the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common- alty, within the said City of New-York, at, and from low-water mark, and running four hundred tret into the said river, from 9 ( 18 ) Bestaver's killetje or river, to the distance of four miles to the north, ^long the easterly shore of the said North or Hudson's River; and also all the land covered with water, along the westerly shore of the East River or Sound, contiguous to, and adjoining the lands of the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common- alty, at and from low-water mark, and ex- tending four hundred feet into the said river or sound, from the north side of Corlear's Hook, at the northerly boundary of the lands covered with water, whereof the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty are now seized, to the distance of two miles to the north, along the westerly shore of the said East River or Sound: Provided always, That the pro- prietor or proprietors of the lands adjacent, shall have the pre-emptive right in all grants made by the Corporation of the said City, of any lands under water, granted to the said Corporation by this act. ( 19 ) Extract from " An Act respecting Streets in the City of New-York." Passed March 24, 1809. u And whereas difficulties have arisen in the execution of the Act, entitled ■ An Act relative to Improvements, touching the lay- ing out of Streets and Roads in the City of New- York, and for other purposes,' passed the third day of April, 1807: For the re- medy of which, w XVII. Be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners ap- pointed by, or by virtue of the act last men- tioned, and for all persons acting under their authority, to enter upon any lands or tene- ments, on which it may be necessary to make surveys for the purpose of said act; and, in cases where surveys or other necessary acts cannot be well and sufficiently made and executed, without cutting trees or doing other damages, it shall be the duty of the said Commissioners, or other persons em- ployed by them, to give reasonable notice thereof to the owner or occupant of the land on which it may be necessary to do such damage; to the end, that fcuch owner or or ( ) cupant may view the place and the damage necessary to be done with the said Commis- sioners, or any one of them, or any sur- veyor by them employed; and in such case no action shall be brought for any such damage, till thirty days after such owner or occupant shall have presented to the Com- mon Council of said City, a bill or statement of the particulars of such damage, with the amount or sum of money demanded therefor; and if within such period of thirty days, the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty, or either of the said Commissioners, or the person who shall have done such damage shall tender to such owner or occupant, de- manding such damages, a reasonable com- pensation therefor, the same shall be a bar to any action to be brought therefor; and in case that no more damages than the sum so tendered shall be recovered in any action to be brought for such damages, a verdict shall pass for the defendant therein. " And whereas, by the second section of the Act, entitled * An Act for regulating the Buildings, Streets, Wharves, and Slips in the City of Nevy-York/ passed the third day ( »1 ) of April, 1801, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of New- York, in Common Council convened, are authorized, among other things, in certain cases therein mentioned, when they shall require the ground of any persons for streets, to cause the damages for taking the same to be as- sessed in the manner therein mentioned: And whereas it is therein further provided, that the verdict of the jury therein men- tioned, and the judgment of the Mayor's Court thereon, and the payment of the sum or sums awarded as therein mentioned, to the owner or owners of such ground, or tender and refusal thereof, shall be conclu- sive and binding against the said owner or owners, his and their respective heirs, execu- tors, administrators, and assigns, claiming any estate, or interest of, in or to the same ground : And whereas in some cases the sums so to be paid or tendered, are very great, and the payment thereof in a great measure useless, by reason, that in many cases the same sums, or great part thereof, are to be assessed again upon the persons to whom such payment or tender may have been made: For remedy whereof, ( *i ) " XVIII. Be it further enacted, That it shall not be necessary, in any case, to make payment or tender of the sum or sums so awarded, in order to bar the right or inter- est of any person in such lands or ground, in less than three calendar months from the respective times, when the judgment of the said Mayors Court shall be rendered on the verdicts of the juries to be summoned as aforesaid; and in all cases in which ground or land, or the occupants thereof, shall be assessed as benefited, as well where the afore- said Commissioners, by virtue of this act, shall make assessment, as where the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty, shall, according to law, make and confirm such assessment within the said period of three calendar months, it shall and may be lawful for the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Com- monalty, to deduct the respective sums so assessed from the sums due for damages and recompense to the said owners respectively; and the payment, or tender and refusal of the respective balances, shall be as good and effectual, as the payment, or tender and re- fusal of the respective sums assessed for damage and recompense. " COMMISSIONERS' REMARKS. The Commissioners appointed in and by the Act, according to the form and effect thereof, remark on their maps, as filed, viz. one in the office of the Secretary of State, one in the office of the Clerk of the City and County of New- York, and the other belonging to the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of New-York, — That as soon as they could meet, and take the oath prescribed, they entered on the duties of their office, and employed persons to make surveys of Manhattan Island, which they personally reconnoitered, so as to ac- quire the general information needful to the correct prosecution of their work, which has been much delayed by the difficulty of procuring competent persons, on those eco- nomical terms which they prescribed to themselves, and by seasons peculiarly unfa- vourable. ( 2* ) That one of the first objects which claimed their attention, was the form and manner in which the business should be conducted; that is to say, whether they should confine themselves to rectilinear and rectangular streets, or whether they should adopt some of those supposed improvements, by circles, ovals, and stars, which certainly embellish a plan, whatever may be their effects as to convenience and utility. In considering that subject, they could not but bear in mind that a city is to be composed principally of the habitations of men, and that strait sided, and right angled houses are the most cheap to build, and the most convenient to live in. The effect of these plain and simple reflec- tions was decisive. Having determined therefore, that the work should in general be rectangular, a se- cond, and, in their opinion, an important consideration, was so to amalgamate it with the plans already adopted by individuals as not to make any important change in their dispositions. This, if it could have been effected, consistently with the public interest, was desirable, not only as it might render the work more generally acceptable, but also a* ( 25 ) st might be the means of avoiding the ex- pense. It was therefore a favourite object with the Commissioners, and pursued until after various unfruitful attempts had proved the extreme difficulty; nor was it abandoned at last but from necessity* To show the ob- stacles which frustrated every effort, can be of no use. It will, perhaps, be more satisfac- tory to each person who may feel aggrieved, to ask himself, whether his sensations would not have been still more unpleasant, had his favourite plans been sacrificed to preserve those of a more fortunate neighbour? If it should be asked, why was the present plan adopted in preference to any other? the answer is, because, after taking all circum- stances into consideration, it appeared to be the best; or, in other and more proper terms, attended with the least inconvenience. It may, to many, be matter of surprise, that so few vacant spaces have been left, and those so small, for the benefit of fresh air, and consequent preservation of health. Cer- tainly, if the City of New- York were des- tined to stand on the side of a small stream, such as the Seine or the Thames, a great number of ample places might be needful; 4 ( 26 ) but those large arms of the sea which em- brace Manhattan Island, render its situation, in regard to health and pleasure, as well as to convenience of commerce, peculiarly feli- citous; when, therefore, from the same causes, the price of land is so uncommonly great, it seemed proper to admit the principles of economy to greater influence than might, under circumstances of a different kind, have consisted with the dictates of prudence and the sense of duty. It appeared proper, nevertheless, to select and set apart, on an elevated position, a space sufficient for a large Reservoir, when it shall be found needful to furnish the City, by means of aqueducts, or by the aid of hydraulic machinery, with a copious supply of pure and wholesome water. In the mean- time, and indeed afterwards, the same place may be consecrated to the purposes of science, when public spirit shall dictate the building of an Observatory. It did not appear proper, only it was felt to be indispensable, that a much larger space should be set apart for Military Exercise, as also to assemble, in case of need, the force destined to defend the City. The question? ( 27 ) therefore, was not, and could not be, whether there should be a Grand Parade, but where it should be placed, and what should be its size. And here again it is to be lamented, that in this late day the Parade could not be brought further south, and made larger than it is, without incurring a frightful expense. The spot nearest to that part of the City already built, which could be selected with any regard to economy, is at the foot of those heights called Inklangberk, in the vicinity of Kip's Bay. That it is too remote and too small, shall not be denied; but it is presumed, that those who may be inclined to criticism on that score, may feel somewhat mollified, when the Collector shall call for their pro- portion of the large and immediate tax which even this small and remote Parade will require. Another large space, almost as necessary as the last, is that, which in no distant pe- riod will be required for a Public Market. The City of New- York contains a population already sufficient to place it in the rank of cities of the second order, and is rapidly ad- vancing towards a level with the first. It is perhaps no unreasonable conjecture, that in ( 28 ) half a century it will be closely built up to the northern boundary of the Parade, and contain 400,000 souls. The controlling power of necessity will long before that period have taught its inhabitants the ad- vantage of deriving their supplies of butcher's meat, poultry, fish, game, vegetables, and fruit, from shops in their neighbourhood. The dealers in those articles will also find it convenient, and so will those from whom they purchase, to meet at one general mart. This has a tendency to fix and equalize prices over the whole City. The carcass butcher, gardener, farmer, &c. will be able to calcu- late, with tolerable accuracy, on the rate at which the supplies he furnishes can be vended, and the reasonable profit of the re- tailer being added, will give a price for the consumer; varying rather by the quality of the article than by any other circumstance. It is no trifling consideration, that by this mode of supplying the wants of large cities, there is a great saving of time, and of the arti- cles consumed. To a person engaged in profitable business, one hour spent in market is frequently worth more than the whole of what he purchase?, and he is sometimes ( an ) obliged to purchase a larger quantity than he has occasion to use, so that the surplus is wasted. Moreover, the time spent by those who bring articles of small value from the country, in retailing them out, bears such great proportion to the articles themselves, as to increase the price beyond what it ought to be. In short, experience having demon- strated to every great aggregation of man- kind the expediency of such arrangement, it is reasonable to conclude that it will be adopted hereafter, and therefore it is proper to provide for it now. Neither is it wholly unworthy of consideration, that the establish- ment of a general mart will leave open the spaces now appropriated to that object, in parts of the City, more closely built than is perfectly consistent with cleanliness and health. The place selected for this purpose, is a salt marsh, and from that circumstance, of inferior price, though in regard to its des- tination, of greater value than other soil. The matter dug from a large canal through the middle, for the admission of market- boats, will give a due elevation and solidity to the sides, and in a space of more than .^000 feet long, and upwards of 800 wide. ( 30 ) there will, it is presumed, after deducting what is needful for the Canal and Markets, be sufficient room for carts and waggons, without incommoding those whose business or curiosity may induce them to attend it. To some it may be matter of surprise, that the whole Island has not been laid out as a City; to others, it may be a subject of merri- ment, that the Commissioners have provided space for a greater population than is collected at any spot on this side of China. They have in this respect been governed by the shape of the ground. It is not improbable that consi- derable numbers may be collected at Haer- lem, before the high hills to the southward of it shall be built upon as a City; and it is improbable, that (for centuries to come) the grounds north of Haerlem Flat will be covered with houses. To have come short of the extent laid out, might therefore have defeated just expectation, and to have gone further, might have furnished materials to the pernicious spirit of speculation. For the better understanding of the Map, it will be proper to recollect, in examining it, that the term Avenue is applied to all those streets which run in a northerly direc- ( 31 ) non, parallel to each other: these are 100 feet wide, and such of them as can be ex- tended as far north as the village of Haerlem are numbered, (beginning with the most eastern, which passes from the west of Bellevue Hospital to the east of Haerlem Church) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12. This last runs from the wharf at Manhattan Ville nearly along the shore of Hudson's River, in which it is finally lost, as appears by the Map. The Avenues to the eastward of No. 1 are marked A, B, C, and D. The space between 1st and 2d is 650 feet, from 2d to 3d Avenue is 610 feet; the spaces from 3d to 4th, 4th to 5th, (which is Manhattan Avenue or Middle Road) and from the 5th to 6th Avenue, are each 920 feet. The spaces west of No. 6 are each of them 800 feet. The westerly side of the Avenue A begins at the intersection of the northerly side of North-Street, by the west- erly side of Essex-Street. The westerly side ot the Avenue B begins on the northerly side ot North-Street, by the westerly side of Arundle Street. The westerly side of the Avenue C begins at the intersection of the northerK side of North-Street, by the west side of Pin ( 32 ) Street; and the westerly side of the Avenue D begins at the intersection at the northerly side of North-Street, by the westerly side of Columbia-Street Those passages which run at right angles to the Avenues, are termed Streets, and are numbered consecutively from 1 to 155. The northerly side of No. I begins at the southern end of the Avenue B, and terminates on the Bowery-Lane; No. 155 runs from Bussing's Point to Hudson's River, and is the most northern of those which it was thought at all needful to lay out as part of the City of New- York, ex- cepting the 10th Avenue, which is continued to Haerlem River, and strikes it near King's Bridge. These streets are all 60 feet wide, except fifteen, which are 100 feet wide, viz. No. 14, 23, 34, 42, 57, 72, 19, S6, 96, 106, 116, 125, 135, 145, and 155; the blocks or spaces between them being in general about 200 feet. The southern side of Third-Street touches the north-east corner of the house occupied by Mangle Minthorne, opposite the southerly side of Great Jones-Street; and the blocks between First and Third Streets are of equal width. The northern side of Fifth-Street ( as ) touches the southerly side of Monument No. 5 : and the blocks between Third and Filth Streets are of equal breadth. The northerly side of Sixth-Street touches the southerly side of Monument No. 6. The northerly side of Seventh-Street touches the southerly side of Monument No. 7; and none of the streets from the First to Seventh inclusive, extend be- yond the Bowery, near the eastern side of which the Monuments 5, 6, and 7 are placed. The northerly side of Eighth- Street touches the south-western corner of a house built on the northerly side of Stuy- vesant-Street, heretofore so called, and east- erly side of the Bowery, The northerly side of Ninth-Street touches the southerly side of Monument No. 9. The northerly side of Tenth-Street touches the southerly side of Monument No. 10; and after crossing the 6th Avenue, becomes the southerly side of the same Tenth-Street. The northerly side of Eleventh-Street touches the northerly side of Monument No. IT. The three last mentioned Monuments are placed near the easterly side of the Bowery Road ; and the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Streets extend westward ly to Greenwich-Lane. The 5 ( 34 ) southerly side of Sixteenth-Street touches the northerly side of Monument No. \6, placed near the western side of the Bloom- ingdale Road. The blocks between the Eleventh and Sixteenth Streets are of equal breadth : and the Twelfth and Thirteenth Streets extend westward to Hudson's River, being interrupted, nevertheless,, by a north- easterly angle of Greenwich-Lane. All the Streets except First an-d Second Streets, (which run into North-Street) extend eastwardly to the Sound, or East River; and all the Streets from Thirteenth-Street northward, extend from River to River, saving where they are interrupted by public places or squares. The southern side of Twenty-first-Street touches the northern side of Monument No. 21, placed near the western side of the Bloomingdale Road; and the blocks between Sixteenth and Twenty-first Streets are of the same width. The northern side of Forty- second-Street touches the southern side of Monument No. 1 and 42, placed four-tenths of a foot eastward of the westerly side of the 1st Avenue; and the blocks between the Twenty-first and Forty-second Streets are of equal width. The northern side of the ( 35 ) Seventy-first-Street touches the southern side of Monument No. 5 and 71, whose westerly- side is placed on the easterly side of the 5th Avenue; and the blocks between the Forty- second and Seventy-first Streets are of the same width. The northerly side of Eighty- sixth-Street touches the northerly side of Monument No. 5 and 86", whose westerly side is placed on the easterly side of the 5th Avenue; and the blocks between the Seventy- first and Eighty-sixth Streets are of the same width. The northerly side of Ninety-sixth- Street touches the southerly side of Monu- ment No. 5 and 96, whose westerly side is placed on the easterly side of the 5th Ave- nue; and the blocks between the Eighty- sixth and Ninety-sixth Streets are of the same width. The northerly side of One hundred and twenty-fifth-Street touches the southerly side of Monument marked 1 and M, whose easterly side is four-tenths of a foot eastward of the western side of the 1st Avenue; and the blocks between the Ninety- ^ixth and One hundred and twenty-fifth Streets are of the same width. The southerly side of One hundred and fiftv-third-Strcct touches the southern side of the tenth mile- ( & ) stone, on the King's Bridge Road, at the sur- face of the earth ; and all the blocks northward of the One hundred and twenty- fifth-Street are of the same width. All the Avenues extend southward to the boundary marked out by the statute, except the 4th, which stops at the Fifteenth-Street, being there lost in Union-Place. This Place is an irregular trapezium, bounded (as appears on the Map) westwardly by the Bloomingdale Road, southwardly by Tenth-Street, easterly and northerly by the Bowery Road, the Broadway (which is continued out to the Parade), Fifteenth-Street, the 4th Avenue, and Sixteenth-Street. This Place becomes necessary from various considerations; its central position requires an opening for the benefit of fresh air; the union of so many large roads demands space for security and convenience, and the morsels into which it would be cut by continuing across it the several Streets and Avenues, would be of little use or value. There are sundry small places equally the children of necessity, viz. one bounded northerly by Second-Street, southerly by North-Street, and westerly by the Avenue C; another bounded north by ( 37 ) First-Street, southerly by North-Street, and westerly by the 1st Avenue; and a third being the space south of Seventh-Street, and west of the 3d Avenue. The Market Place already mentioned, is bounded northerly by Tenth-Street, southerly by Seventh-Street, easterly by the East River, and westerly by the 1st Avenue. The Parade is bounded northerly by Thirty- second-Street and Thirty-fourth-Street, south- wardly by Twenty-third-Street, eastward ly by the 3d Avenue, from Twenty-third to Thirty-second Streets, and by the Eastern Post Road from the Thirty-second to Thirty- fourth Streets, westwardly by the 7th Avenue; being in its greatest length from east to west little more than 1350 yards, and in its breadth from north to south not quite 1000. Blooming dale Square is bounded north- wardly by Fifty-seventh-Street, southwardly by Fifty-third-Street, eastwardly by the 8th, and westwardly by the 9th Avenue. Manhattan Square is bounded north- wardly by Eighty-first-Street, southwardly by Sevcnty-sevonth-Street, eastwardly by the 8th, and westward ly by the 9th Avenue. ( 38 ) Observatory Place, or Square for Reservoir, is bounded northwardly by Ninety-fourth- Street, southwardly by Eighty-ninth-Street, eastwardly by the 4th, and westwardly by the 5th Avenue. Haeriem Marsh is bounded northwardly by the One hundred and ninth-Street, south- wardly by the One hundred and sixth-Street, eastwardly by the Sound, and westwardly by the 5th Avenue. Finally; Haeriem Square is bounded north- wardly by the One hundred and twenty- first-Street, southwardly by the One hun- dred and seventeenth-Street, eastwardly by the 6th, and westwardly by the 7th Avenue. The position of all the Monuments will be seen on the Map; and also the several eleva- tions taken above high -water mark. In witness whereof, the said Commis- sioners have hereunto set their hands and. seals the 22d day of March, 1811. REFERENCES TO THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS, CHURCHES, CHAPELS, PLACES OF AMUSEMENT, PRINCIPAL MANUFACTORIES, &c. 1 GOVERNMENT House, at the Battery; occupied as the Custom-House, Academy of Arts, &c. 2 Post-Office, corner of William and Garden streets. p 3 Trinity Church, Broadway. 4 Grace do. do. 5 St. Paul's do. do. 6 St. George's Chapel, Beckman-street. 7 Christ Church, Ann-street. 8 St. John's do. Hudson-square. 9 St. Stephen's do. corner of Broome and First streets. 10 St. Mark's do. Tenth-street. 11 Zion do. Mott-street. 12 French Episcopal do, Pine-street. ( ) 13 South Reformed Dutch Church, Garden* street. 14 New Dutch do. Liberty-street. 15 North do. do. William-street. 16 North-west do. do. Sugar-loaf-street. 17 do. George-street, Greenwich. 18 German Calvinist Reformed do. Nassau- street. 19 German Lutheran do. Frankfort-street. 20 Presbyterian do. Wall-street. 21 do. do. Beekman-street. 22 do. do. Elizabeth-street. 23 do. do. Rutgers-street. 24 do. do. Spring-street. 25 Irish do. do. Orange-street. 26 Reformed do. do. Chamber-street. 27 Associate do. do. Cedar-street. 28 do. do. do. Pearl-street. 29 do. do. do. Murray-street. 30 Seceder's do. Nassau-street. 31 do. do. Union Road, Greenwich. 32 Baptist do. Gold-street. 33 do. do. Fayette-streeh 34 do. do. Rose-street. 35 do. do. Mulberry-street, 36 do. do. Broome-street. 37 do. do. Vandam-street. ( 41 ) 38 Welsh Baptist Church, Mott-street. 39 Ebenezer do. do. Broadway. Methodist Church, John-street. A 1 do. do. Duanostreet. 42 do. do. Second-street. 43 do. do. Fourth -street. 44 do. do. Bedford-street. 45 Moravian Church, Fair-street. 45 Universalist do. Pearl-street. 47 St. Peter's Catholic do. Barclay-street. 48 St. Patrick's do. do. Mott-street. 49 Friend's old Meeting-house, Liberty-street, 50 do. new do. Pearl-street. 5 1 Jew's Synagogue, Mill-street. 52 African Baptist Church, Anthony-street, 53 do. Methodist do. Church-street. 54 do. do. do. Green-street 55 City Hall, Wall-street. 56 New Court-house, Park. 57 Goal, do. 58 Bridewell, ' do. 59 Alms House, Chamber-street. 60 New do. Bellevue. 61 State Prison, Greenwich. 62 Columbia College, Robinson-street. 63 College of Physicians and Surgeons- Pearl-strect. ft ( M j 64" City Library and Literary Exchange, Nassau-street. 65 Free-School, Lumber-street. 66 do. Chatham-street. 67 do. Henry-street. 68 Hospital, Broadway. 69 Asylum for Maniacs, Duane and Church streets. 70 State Arsenal, Elm-street. 71 United States do. Bridge-street. 72 Theatre, Chatham-street. 73 Washington Hall, Broadway. 74 Mechanics' do. Robinson-street. 75 St. John's do. Frankfort-street. 16 Great Wigwam, No. I. Chatham-street. 77 City-Hotel, Broadway. 78 Tontine Coffee House, Wall-street. 79 Phoenix do. do. do. 80 Exchange Market, Broad-street. 81 Fly do. near Maiden-lane. 82 Bear do. Greenwich and Vesey streets, 83 Duane do. Duane-street. 84 Catharine do. Catharine-street. §5 New do. Spring-street. 86 do. do. Grand-street. 87 State Botanic Garden, near the four mile- stone on the 5th Avenue. ( ) St. James's Church, Hamilton Square. St. Michael's do. Bloomingclale Road. Dutch Reformed do. do. do. do. do. do. Hacrlem. New- York Chamber of Coanmercc, Wall- street. United States Bank, do. Bank of New- York, do. Manhattan Bank, do. Merchants* do. do. Mechanics' do. do. Union do. do. United Insurance Company, do. New-York do. do. do. * Mutual do. do. do. Columbian do. do. do. Marine do. do. do. Commercial do. do. do. Ocean do. do. do. Washington Mutual do. do. John-street. Eagle Fire do. do. Wall-street. Phoenix do, do. do. New- York Firemen do. do. do. London Phoenix do. do. do. United States Loan Office, No. 16 Robinson. and No. 123 Barclay-street. Manhattan Water Works, Reed-street. ( 44 ) The Sailor's Snug Harbour, Broadway, near Union Place. Scudder's American Museum, No. L 2l Chat- ham-street. Smith's New Mechanical Panorama, No. 190 William-street. Circus, Anthony-street, near Broadway. John J. Holland's Panorama, Broadway. Vauxhall, near the two mile-stone, in the Bowery. Dyde's Military Hall, upper end of Broad- way. Tyler's Washington Garden, Spring-street, near Greenwich^street. Ensley's Columbia Garden, No. 307 Broad- way. Parise's New Garden, No. 265 do. Contoit's New-York Garden, No. 355 do. Knox's Ball-Alley, Fourth-street, near Hester- street. M'Queen's Columbian Air Furnace, corner of Duane and Cross streets. Industry do. No. 390 Greenwich-street. Union do. Broadway, near Canal-street. Youle's do. Corlear'srhook. Sturtevant's do. Elm, near Duane-street. Ward's Cupelo do. for casting brass and iron, corner of Hester and Third streets. ( 45 ) Egenton and M'Queen's Burr Mill Stone Manufactory, No. 18 Gross-stree t. W. Innes & Co.'s Chemical Laboratory, cor- ner of Walnut and Lombardy streets. A. J. Hamilton's Distillery, No. 286 Water- street. Geib and Son, Church and Chamber Organ Builders, and Patent Piano-Forte Manu- facturers, No. 95 Leonard-street, and cor- ner of Sugar-loaf and Church streets. Wettemore's Card Manufactory, George- street, Greenwich. White & Co.'s Type Foundery, do. do. G. Youle's Patent Cabouse and Stove Manu- factory, No. '296 Water, and 35 Cherry streets. New- York Slate Company's Yard, West- street, near Chamber-street. New-York Patent Grate Manufactory, No. 395 Broadway. Calico Printing do. Sullivan, near Bleeckcr- street. C. Crygicr's Paper-hanging do. corner of Broadway and Warren-street. Harmer's Patent Floor-Cloth do. Brooklyn, and at his agent's Mr. II. Andrews No, 78 Maidcn-laiv. ( *G ) Cumberland's Floor-Cloth Manufactory, cor- ner of Rivington and Second streets. P. and G. Lorillard's Tobacco and Snuff Manufactory, No. 30 Chatham-street. Heiser's Starch do. No. 511 Greenwich- street. Tucker's Plaister of Paris do. No. 6 White- street. Remmey's Stone- Ware do. No. 9 Cross-street. C. Crolius' do. do. No. 8 do. J. A. Crolius' do. do. corner of Governeur and Cherry streets. Marshall's Earthen do. No. 1 16 Hester-street. Brown's Thread do. No. 300 Bowery. Stevenson's do. do. No. 50 Spring-street. Pin do. do. do. Edwards' Scale-Beam do. Green, near Prince- street. Wheeler's Turpentine Distillery, Orange- street. Van Wagenen and Van Hook's do. do. Green, near Prince-street. Cottrell and Martin's do. do. near Mount Pitt. West's do. do. Greenwich-street. Whitfield's Philadelphia Stage-Office, No. 1 Courtlandt-street. ( 47 ) Swiftsure Mail do. No. 4 Courtlandt-street. Puffer's Mail and General do. No. 5 do. North River Steam Boat piers, foot of Court- landt and Liberty streets. Brunswick Steam Boat pier, Battery. Powles-Hook Ferry do. Courtlandt-street. Hoboken, do. Vesey-street. Brooklyn Ferries, at the Fly and Catharine Markets. Elizabeth-Town do. Whitehall. Staten-Island do. do. Rhode-Island Packets, Crane-wharf. Manhattan Bath, No. 5 Chamber-street. New- York do. No. 17 do. LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. His Excellency DANIEL D. TOMPKINS, Governor of the State of New-York. The Honourable DE WITT CLINTON, Lieutenant Governor of the State of New-York. Anthon, John Aymar, Peter Astor, John Jacob Anderson, Alexander Aylward, Pierce Bryce, Archibald Bailey, Theodorus Bayard, Stephen N. Barker, Joshua Barnes, Robert Bell, James L. BrinckerhofF, George Bogardus, Robert Berrian, William Boston, Robert Bleeckcr, Anthony Bon sail, Robert Boyce, Abraham Brooks, Henry Brown, Burnell Burr, Isaac Beth une, Divic Buckley, Thomas Board man, John Bre inner, Andrew Bowrosan, Anthony Blackwell, James BogeH, Cornelius Brown, Noah Bleeckcr, James W- ( Barclay, Thomas Barry, Rev. E. D. Bogert, James Buchannan, Thomas Brackett, J. Warren Barrow, Thomas Bartow, Basil J. Blackwell & M'Farlane. Clinton, Charles Campbell, Duncan P. Colden, Cadwallader D. Crosby, James Child,' Francis Caldwell, J. E. & J. Clark, junr. John Carithers, George Cutting, William Cottu, Charles Coleman, William Campbell, Samuel Codman, William Commercial Insurance Company. Columbian Insurance Company. Clason, Isaac Cheesebrough, Robert Cashman, Michael Crane, Timothy B. Crane, Benjamin Cooper, Thomas A. Coley, William Cod wise. George 50 ) Courtney, Lord, 2 copies Conrad, Solomon W. Chrystie, Thos. & Jas. Disbrow, John Denning, William Dingee, Robert Dobs, Peter Dickey, Robert De Grushe, Robert Dunham, David, 3 copies. Delaplane, Joseph Davis, William A. De Witt, Peter Dixey, John Desobry, Benjamin Dydc, Robert De Laeroix, lr. Amelot De Peyster, Gerard Dunscomb, Edward Emmett, Thomas A. Eastburn, James Eagle Fire Insurance Company. Ensley, Daniel Elliot, William Ferris, Benjamin Farquhar, Charles W. Franklin, Matthew Fish, Whitehead Fulton, Robert Fenton, Peter Freeman, Uzal W. Furman* Gabriel ( Foster & Giraud. Forbes, Garrit Fox, John Fay, Joseph D. Gelston, Mall by Graham, John A. Gracie, Archibald Gautross, Xavier Gardenier & Edwards. Garr, Andrew S. Gibson, John W. Greenwood, Dr. John Gosman, George Gilpin, J. & T. Gould, Stephen Gieb & Son, John Gaudain, Lawrence Ilattrick, Peter Haniersley, Thomas Halsey, Jacob Heiser, Henry Henderson, William I[offman, Josiah Ogden Hopkins, William Hounsiield, Ezra Herring, Elbert Hone, John Harvey, Thomas Hopper, junr. John Hunter, Robert Holland, John J. Hyslop, John Herman. Adrian Hatfield, junr. ft Hammond, J. Hatfield, Andn w Hogan, Michael Holmes, William B. Harsen, Jacob Hammond, Abijah Holt, Charles Harrison, William Irving k Smith. Janeway, George Jaques, Oliver Jay, P. Augustus Jauncy, William Judah, Benjamin S. Jaques, John D. Jones, David S. Johnson, James Jackson, Amasa Jones, Isaac Jones, Edward R. Jackson, John King, David King, William King, Rufns Kemp, John Ludlow, Care\ Livingston, ftrockhol Law renee, William Ludlow, William C Lispcnnrd. liconard Livingston, John R. Ludlow. Gabriel Y, ( S3 ) Lenox, Robert Low, John Lovett, William Lang & Turner. Le Roy, Bayard & M'Evers. Leavenworth, E. Leonard, John Ledyard, Benjamin Le Roy, Jaeob Labagh, Abraham Lawrence, J. M. D. Little, Michael London Phcenix Fire In surance Company. M'Kesson, John M'Comb, junr. John M'Mennomy, Robert M 4 Viekar, / John Mulligan, John W. Munro, Peter Jay M'Intire, Hugh Morris, Thomas Mcyhcr, John M 4 Lean, John Murray, John R. Mason, John Mechanics' Bank. Murray, John B. M 4 Vickar, Nathan M'Callem, Dainei Moore, Lewis Meigs, Henry Mulligan, William C. Mason, Rev. John M. Marcellin, Anthony V. M'Kay, Patrick Mitchill, Samuel L. Maxwell, Hugh M'Evers, Charles Mutual Insurance Com- pany. Norton, John L. 2 copies Newby, Robert S. Nutter, Valentine Ogden, David B. Ogden, Thomas L. Ogden, Andrew Ogden, William Odell, Jacob Prime, Nathaniel Pearsall, Thomas C. Pope, Thomas Paulding, junr. William Price, Stephen Payne, John H. Post, Henry Pell, A. S. Pintard, John Post, Thomas Pell, Jabesh Picket, Albert Rom ay n, Nicholas Rapelye, George Rutgers, Henry Rich, Thomas L. ( w ) Roorback, Arthur H. RadclifF, Jacob Ray, Cornelius Rogers, Ben jam in W» Russell) Abraham Bitter, John P. Robertson, Robert Riker, Richard Ross, David M. Rcmmcy. Jolin Rhodes, William Rollinson, William Randell* John Rook, John Rogers, John Roosevelt, James C. Roosevelt, James Rhmelander, Philip Robinson, Beverly Strong, Joseph Sherred, Jacob Stoughton* Thomas Smith, Theophilus \V. Smyth, Charles Stagg, Thomas Somai indyck, G. W. 2eo. Sturtevaat, Kliplmlct Strong, Benjamin Stoutenburgh, juor. J. Stewart, Charles Sharp, R. I. Siekels, John If. Strong, Selah Saltus, Francis SJidcll, John Schcnck, Peter IT. Seaman, J. W. & Co. Schermcrhorn, junr. P. Stewart, Alexander L. Scott, H. Stagg, Peter Sands, Joseph Suckley, George Smith, James R. Stuyvesant, Nicholas W. Southwick, Henry C. Stuyvesant, Peter G. Swords, Thomas Swords, James Schcrmerhorn, John P. Talbot, Theodore F. Taylor, Thomas Tucker, Gideon Ten Brook, Henry Taylor, Najah Thorp, George B. Townsend, M. k B. Ten Broeck, Dirk Thomas, Thomas If. Tremain, Joseph Trinder, Charles Thorn, R. V. W. ^ J. Thomson, John Tripler, Thongs Thompson, Samuel Tyler, Henry ( to ) Tucker, Peter L. Underbill, Stephen Union Bank. Van Zandt, John Variek, Richard Van Tuyl, John Y. Verveelan, Henry Verplank, Daniel C. Van Hook, Isaac A, Van Zandt, Peter Van Alen, Cornelius C. Van Beuren, Cortlandt "Ward, Jasper Wyman, John W. West, John E. Wells, John Wyckoff, Henry I. Weyman, William Wright, Grove Wood, John Woodhull, R. M. Wilson, Peter Weeks, Ezra Woods, William Willctt, Marinus Wilkes, Charles Wagstaff, David Watkinson, Henry Woods, James Watkins, Joseph Wilcox, Daniel B. Winter, Joseph Waldron, Benjamin Wilkins, Martin S. Walters, Daniel D. Wheeler, Solomon Wilson, John Q. Wilson & Wilson. Winthrop, Francis B. Walton, Gerard Wing, William Ward, John Ward, Bartholomew Whittemore, Samuel Waite, George Waite, Robert Wood, Samuel Wendovcr, Peter H. Youle, George Youle, John