Nooks and Corners of Old New York

Charles Hemstreet (1866–1940) was an American author and journalist. He is the author of Literary New York: Its Landmarks and Associations and When New York Was Young, among many books.

• Introductory NoteList of Illustrations1. Fort AmsterdamBowling GreenThe BatteryCastle GardenState StreetThe "Stadhuis" Petticoat LaneBroad StreetFraunces TavernPearl StreetThe First City HallFirst Printing Press in the ColonyFire of 1835Stone StreetFlat and Barrack HillWall Street Federal Hall Where Alexander Hamilton Lived Tontine Coffee House Meal Market Middle Dutch Church Pie Woman's Lane The Maiden's Lane The Jack-Knife Golden Hill Delmonico's John Street Church John Street Theatre Shakespeare Tavern First Clinton Hall St. George's Church Barnum's Museum Original Park Theatre First Brick Presbyterian Church Where Leisler Was Hanged Tammany Hall A Liberty Pole City Hall Park Potter's Field In City Hall Park Third City Hall Governor's Room First Savings Bank Fences of City Hall Park Office of Aaron Burr An Historic Window The Tombs Prison The Collect The Five Points Mulberry Bend Slum An Ancient Church Chatham Square Bouwerie Lane Kissing Bridge Tea Water Pump Home of Charlotte Temple Bull's Head Tavern First Bowery Theatre Washington's Home on Cherry Hill 2. The Origin of Broadway The First Graveyard The First House Built Tin Pot Alley Trinity Churchyard Annetje Jans's Farm Oldest Grave In Trinity Churchyard Grave of Charlotte Temple Martyrs' Monument A Churchyard Cryptograph Alexander Hamilton's Tomb Last Friend of Aaron Burr Tomb of Capt. James Lawrence Cresap, the Indian Fighter Where Gov. De Lancey Was Buried Home of the De Lanceys Washington Market St. Paul's Chapel The Washington Pew in St. Paul's The Actor Cooke's Grave Astor House A House of Other Days The Road to Greenwich St. Peter's Church Columbia College Chapel Place Bowling Green Garden and First Vauxhall A. T. Stewart's Store First Sewing Machine Masonic Hall New York Hospital Riley's Fifth Ward Hotel St. John's Church The Red Fort Lispenard's Meadows Cows on Broadway Canal Street Original Olympic Theatre Greenwich Village Sir Peter Warren Evolution of Greenwich Streets Duane Street Church Richmond Hill Burr's Pond St. John's Burying Ground Bedford Street Church Where Thomas Paine Lived and Died Admiral Warren and His Family State Prison Convict Labor Quaint Houses in Wiehawken Street Bank Street Washington Square Obelisk Lane Graveyard In a Side Street Milligan's Lane Union Road First Presbyterian Church Society Library Great Kiln Road Weavers' Row Graveyard Behind a Store Love Lane Chelsea Village London Terrace 3. Oliver Street Baptist Church Madison Street Where Nathan Hale Was Hanged First Tenement House Manhattan Island Bone Alley "Mother" Mandelbaum Allen Street Memorial Church Mile Stone On the Bowery St. Patrick's Church An Unsolved Crime Niblo's Garden Tripler Hall First Marble-Fronted Houses Burdell Murder Marble Cemetery The Second Marble Cemetery Bouwerie Village Grave of Peter Stuyvesant First Sunday School Bowery Village Church Second Vauxhall Garden Cooper Union Astor Place Scene of Forrest-Macready Riots Clinton Hall Lafayette Place La Grange Terrace Sailors' Snug Harbor Grace Church Wallack's Theatre Union Square Academy of Music St. George's Church Gramercy Park Madison Square Arsenal in Madison Square House of Refuge Post Road Fifth Avenue Hotel College of City of New York Old House of Refuge Wall Bellevue Hospital Bull's Head Village Peter Cooper's House Little Church Around the Corner Lich Gate Brick Presbyterian Church Bryant Park A World's Fair Murray Hill Turtle Bay The Elgin Garden St. Patrick's Cathedral Four Mile Stone Beekman House An Old Shot Tower The De Voor Farm Central Park Afterword Ken BloomIndex