File:Park Row, Manhattan, looking east from Broadway.jpg

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English: Caption line 1: "Street Views No. 1. - Park Row."

Caption line 2: "Drawn and Engraved for the New York Mirror. 1830."

Credit line: "Drawn by C. Burton. Engraved by Wm. D. Smith."

From the Mirror:

"Exactly over the top of the second carriage in the picture appears the upper story of Tammany-hall, with its white-washed front, reminding us of 'an old acquaintance with a new face', while the driver and horses of the first carriage, with the aid of a friendly tree, have saved the artist the trouble of glazing a half dozen windows in the west wall of the Brick Meeting; which, whether visible or not, actually stands behind that very tree. Its elegant spire is sufficiently conspicuous over the roof-tree of Professor Chilton's four-story domicil [sic]; and it is but civil to add, that this gentleman is an operative chemist and druggist of no ordinary celebrity. Turner's grocery at the corner of Beekman-street, being a little shantee [sic], not much larger than the body of a hackney coach, is totally concealed by the heads of the horses before mentioned; a very convenient screen by the by, to prevent our witnessing any accidental violation of the constitution and by-laws of the temperance society." (emphasis in original)

To the right of Chilton's are, from left to right, the Chatham Hotel; a house of entertainment called Bachelor's Hall; Morse's City Coffee House; a low, two-story building, half of which is occupied by Thomas Lewis, boot- and shoemaker, and the other half by James Sweeny; the Theatre Hotel; the Park Theatre; the Sock and Buskin House hotel; the apothecary-store of Messrs. Place & Souillard; the porter-house of Messrs. M. &. E. Cronly; and a small section of Ira Clark's establishment.
Date Published August 7, 1830
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Allen, Oliver E. "The Park on the Park", Forum of the Wired New York website. Posted 2013-03-15. Caption reads: "The second Park Theatre on Park Row, then known as Chatham Street, in 1830. At left is City Hall Park. Images courtesy of the New-York Historical Society."

Originally published in The New-York Mirror, a Repository of Polite Literature and the Arts Vol. 8 No. 5 (1830-08-07), on a non-numbered page, accompanied by the article, "Views in the City of New-York: Park Row", pp. 33-4.

Also online at Museum of the City of New York website, Image ID: F2011.37.14. (Click on magnifying glass icon for high resolution pan-and-zoom box.)
Author Drawn by Charles Burton. Engraved by William D. Smith.
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