New York a Historical Sketch of the Rise And Progress of the Metropolitan City
New York a Historical Sketch of the Rise And Progress of the Metropolitan City
Daniel Curry
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§ 227. Squares projected. Beyond the city proper several large public squares have been projected, some of which have received the necessary legalization, and probably most of them will, in future years, be occupied for the purposes to wl^cn they have been thus devoted. BloomingdaU-square, on Eighth-avenue and Fifty- third-street, is designed to occupy eighteen acres ; HamiltoYirsquare, on Fourth-avenue and Sixty-sixth- street, twenty-four acres. This square occupies a most elevated position ; ...and if completed according to its design, it will be among the finest suburban walks in the vicinity of New -York. Manhattan-square, on Ninth-avenue and Seventy- seventh-street, covers four entire blocks ; Ohservatory- place, between Fourth and Fifth-avenues, contains twenty-five acres ; and Mount Morris, on both sides of Fifth-avenue, between One-hundred-and-twentieth and One-hundred-and-twenty-fourth-streets, about twenty acres. This last is situated in the vicinity of the ancient village of Harlem.
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