NYU Washington Square College - Album Yearbook (New York, NY)

 - Class of 1934

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3. O THE American school-boy the year 1776 is as well known and as familiar as is his A B C. But an event that is not so well known is that when the Father of our country was retreatmg under Howes feroc1ous attack he w1thdrew h1s m1l1t1a from Brooklyn I-Ielghts and Long Island and retreated step by step through the Czty 0 N ew York, the Hudson, and across New Iersey to a safe pos1t1on on the banks of the Dela ware Then he made h1S headquarters 1n Peter Warren s mans1on 111. Greenw1ch V1llage George W'ash1ngton, at a most trylng per1od of h1s mxlxtary career had l1ved 1n, and had breathed the healthy a1r of Greenw1ch V1llage' An amusmg 1nc1dent wh1ch accompan1ed the last mfluence left by S1r Peter occurred 1n 1787, when the trustees of h1S estate, harassed by the quarrels and pet1t1ons of S1r Peter s he1rs, threw d1ce 1n order to make a part1t1on of the property sausfadtory to all part1es concerned The homestead was won by Lady Abxngdon, she later sold It for a l1ttle over two thousand dollars, the property changed several hands unt1l 1t was purchased by Van Nest, 1n 1819, for S15 000 The s1te of thxs h1stor1cally mterestmg area can today be traced by a lme drawn around the square enclosed by Fourth Bleeker, Perry, and Charles Streets W1th so much a6t1v1ty gomg on 1n thls portlon of Manhattan, 1t was 1nev1table that there be an 1mprovement m roads connectmg the C1ty w1th the V1llage Two roads were w1dened and 1mproved for travel, the Greertwzch and the Post Roads Of these, the former IS now Greemuzeh Street and the latter Astor Place These fasts can be ascerta1ned by prolonged 1nvest1gat1ons mto anc1ent documents and plans of the Clty now 111 the hands of the New York H1stor1cal Soc1ety But one mterestmg feature of Old Greertwzch Lane wh1ch cannot be explamed 1S the d1sappearance of a monument to General Wolfe and an obehsk, both of Wh1Ch are definltely known to have stood at e1ther end of the lane and both of wh1ch were removed so completely and so effedhvely, that no trace of e1ther remams Away to the north of Greerzwzch Lane, up 1n the country wh1ch 1S now Madzsort Square, there ex1sted a Potter s Fzeld But the pauper funerals d1d not blend very well w1th the handsome up mto that same country on a cheerful Sunday afternoon, so lt was ordered that a new s1te for homeless, fr1endless and pennxless corpses be found Thus d1d the area wh1ch we now call Washzngton Square become Potter s Fzelcl Later, when the ex1genc1es of the law courts demanded 'E' .T..7S,,Tg X 4 5 The 5 ?m gw .1 fy Tigris f 'Mali' 5 '55 mg?ElPa Q' N2 C ,ne ff 17'1l,'I,l't7J 1 mx ga U 1,1 N J H 1,11 ll' Q ,111 57' ' 1 fl PM we 15311 U' I :,, v N 'an ,Y l xl Klux Wu' V lj l M1 xl 'al 17 Ns- :Elf-fl J 3 - - , 1 . . . . . , . . Q . . . ' Q . 5 A e-A1 -11 'aff-eff e. vi 127 '-Q , 111 . . ftrifjfaz' -1, --2 :3-A13-lr -' if 313, 11---ja-iii? f W g 2- , 15,25 9 5.11111 . ,' 751' 1 ' ' w , 5-L 1-1 - 1 . War 51, -, 'I' , 11 Pele 1 2 t' fn fr- - aa .12,r,, .wr -513414 ' ' 611 1251512 1. .f1'1l2Lff?-wif ' ' ,y.1-fa-'m1,.,-1f,1.' ,r ' . , 41,1 - 12:--1, . . . 1,,:1S?13 ,21:: ?f1:'i-Ee,-IfTlE'113E7i?:?' mf I 'ffftla - v.1,,r: Nui., y,,.g1Q11,-,1. f ,ri it 5,-'11, Vw xi:.,1g,-.-:-11-15.11Q:.vg1f.1,3,1j,,,..1-11I:,:,1t.- X' get t- W., A 3,5 1. F ,0..115-113-91, 11,14 'a1Jg,j-1 151.11-,,x..A-Q:-. 3- Taxa? .viva :1,4..5, fri - Q - 1 1 ff: - Q. - - rf:-F115 F 1 1.. ,r,s'1s1-V.,-'11 -jf' --1.12 ' , 1525511 - - 4:111111:'a1111:2a1:f+xf' P, ' 1 Sea- near: 22:22.s'.xf:':.1.:.15:11-52. Mai' . if -Ywi: 'E'1 1133: .tigwf '61 fb - - - fffiawaamnei-11,11ma.1,1',l1,, 1 lzfl vm 11 .11 aa. carr1ages of the wealthy who would go drwmg ,fgvglflgw Q91 ik-gswt'f:.E:g'.,g'-511.1 1 .g, ' 1.2 5,31 1 ,..,l'j' -:Q . 5a.ff.q511g-sig? - W I - fiE53l5mfgqMgg,, ll! My l:wEEQ1ig,1151111, -1 1 'V'-22.11, ffm, ' ' ' ' .1,. 51 iff-1 34 ,5 1' ' '7?.7'f11f'1?'l14.1f. 'll f1f??e3Lf15l - ' l, 11t2:?3y11't5lq 'IW e'121ebsw:1f',1u,1-Mk' ,f!',1111. 'M 1 ' '15'i'!'f::. V ', 1i l1' P -EQTEE- :i:'1f ,1F'1.f lu. 1wLi fEef:-11l'M.,lIl1 ,1 lu' 1i'1t3ji,1gZP,a.l1?1fQ ' ' ll 1 1-f1ffmlM'14l N ' 'f- ,1 KA FQ fl' 'ii'f'7 ' 1 1. 25575: 1514911 . i1'7'f1f1lll::. H all l 11lt:1lll111 3 291311 1 - - , 1gQ '9uW...,1 L'l5illfgJ'i1la - Ifjll '.,y1111 - ., 1 '11 1111 , 11 1 -'11l'a1 . 1 - 11,dQa1.11M FQ -1,141 '11 .lil , ' . -11 :f1-qv .'4-111.,t,1,-ilu, J A ' gL:2,jM+11.311,-M' fa, ' ' , 14 - 1191.1 ,1 5-1, 'J' C1 1 , ':,1'1.'f' f.,: --miarv 7-l.3YF-35:-i',fi:':11f ' P137 L! W 1 1iii1ff1111.- 1-1 412' gg V ,ot '4-,ip K 1 e 1 2 4444 e , F P antera.- 'Vocaexsf-'9

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bust on its pedestal while a melancholy figure representing Navigation looks on with despair, also bore the marks of small-pox on his face. It is not known whether that great sailor caught the disease in New York, or whether he brought it aboard one of his many fine ships. What is known, however, is that in the early 1700's he came to New York in a frigate, the Solebay, and that he later returned with another frigate, the Launceston, a sloop, the Squirrel, and a sixty gun ship, the Superbe. He had been to the Leeward Islands and to Martinique . . . his ships had seen Gibraltar and Ca pe Finisterre. Can that intangible mysterious web of coincidence have so arranged it that the Renais- sance of the Village was to come from a microorganism carrying contagious feverish bacteria which left eruptions upon the skin? Is it possible that Sir Peter Warren had permitted this parasitic microorganism to stowaway, unsuspected, somewheres on one of his frigates? The fact remains that had not a smallpox epidemic broken out in New York, driving its citizens up into the healthy country of Greenwich Village in great numbers, there would never have been a Village. If New York had gone on developing slowly, as do all hamlets into towns, towns into cities, and cities into metropoli, that area called the Village would have submitted to the eve.r advancing carpet of concrete which turns a village lane into a street-and-sidewalks affair in exactly the same fashion as do today the suburbs of Long Island or the Bronx. When the city fathers want more territory, they simply annex another few lots, order that they be paved, and a new map of the city is drawn. But it was not so with the Village. The sudden influx of thousands of persons into this newly discovered health resort caused the Village to grow overnight. Spruce, balsam and pine trees which had stood in the Village for more than a century toppled and crashed to the ground, gleaming steel axes swung viciously in the feverish hands of a populace frightened into activity by an epidemic which threatened all who remained in the City. Branches lopped off, the trees became logsg the bark stripped off, logs were roughhewn into beams and rafters under the swinging axes. Split by wedges, the logs became rough floor and wall planks, sawn and split again, the planks became shingles. More and more houses were needed to shelter all who had participated in the exodus. There was no time to ponder upon style of veranda or design of gable. This was a life and death panic, a people were seek- ing to escape extinction. Thus did New York receive, simultaneously, the visit of Sir Peter Warren and a smallpox epidemic. Although Sir Peter's personal aEairs took him away from America, still he had one more contribution to make to our Village. His three daughters were to marry men whose names were to be carved on wooden street signs, guiding the new population of the Village towards it many destinations. Charlotte married Willoughby, Earl of Abing- don, leaving us Abingdon Square, Anne married Charles Fitzroy, and Susannah, the youngest, a William Skinner giving the Villagers Skinner and Fitzroy Roads. But at a later day the New American, anxious to obliterate anything which reminded him of the obnoxious Establishment of tbe English, changed Skinner Road to Cbristopber Street, and Fitzroy Road to Eigbtb Avenue. This was the second manifestation of relabeling the spoils of victory, an act which has persisted aggressions from time immemorial. .4 4 IIVIGJ -I od' V 'Ii- 'digit Blsiiatiff-



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that a place of public execution be established, some ingenious mind, adting under the influence of the gruesomeness of P0tter's Field, suggested that there could be no bet- ter place for a public gallows than this selfsame field. And so here it was that high- waymen, horsethieves, and even later a negress, Rose Butler, swung at the end of a rope while a delighted audience looked on with sadistic glee, meanwhile, members of the nimble-fingered gentry picked pockets. More and more figures of national prominence came to live in Greenwich Village. Adams, the Vice-President, took up residence on Richmond Hill, which we now call MacD0ngal Street 5 Aaron Burr, indidted as our country's great conspirator, and killer of Hamilton in that notorious duel, lived on this estate of the Vice-President on Richmond Hill. It was from this house that Burr went forth on July 11, 1804, to fight the duel with Hamilton. Having been defeated in his attempt to secure the governorship of New York through the efforts of Hamilton, Burr had challenged his opponent to this duel. Crossing the Hudson to the foot of the Wiehawken Heights, Burr mortally wounded Hamilton at the first shot, thus ending simultaneously, both the life of a great Bgure in American history, and his own public career. 4. HE MODERN visitor is amused by the twisting and turning of the Village Streets. The contrast between the military-like regularity and precision of the more recently built thoroughfares and the whimsicalities of Fourth Street, which pursues its shadow across Tenth Street and Eleventh Street, and finally catches up with itself at Twelfth Street is not as strange in origin as may be supposed. There was a very good reason, away back in those early days, for the Village streets to have been fashioned as they were. Working under the intimidation of small-pox and yellow fever, which had brought the new settlers to Greenwich Village, the self-appointed road engineers chose to build their streets along the meandering cowpaths already in existence rather than delay intravillage communication by clearing thickets or filling in the sand marshes which stood in the way of restilinear streets. Houses were popping up on either side of a lane. Financiers of the Bank of New York, equally susceptible to disease with the lesser city folk, came rushing to the health resort, bought eight lots fronting a nameless lane and eredted a row of mansions for their families. This invasion by the monied men of N ew York is recorded in the Village by the name given to that lane . . . it is now Bank Street. It was more expedient to take whatever lanes and paths were in existence, and build roads or streets on them than it would have been to deliberate, legislate, and make elaborate plans for more efficient thoroughfares. The human interest story did creep into the docu- mentary evidence of the old Village, as far as this street problem is concerned. It is recorded that in 1800, that doughty burgher, Brevoort, imbued with a patrician pride which clung to things traditional, chased a party of surveyors OH his estate with a wicked-looking blunderbuss in order to prevent them from putting Eleventh Street through his property. So it was that the builders, confronted with natural or human obstacles, permitted U81 fee 4 N6 VN if fs 11 .. 4 Tr Els Messrs.- - e-:en+x

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