This post looks more closely at the first image. Most people know that the city grew from the bottom up, but what stands out is how much the city also appears to have grown from the outside-in. Many of the blocks in the center of the island have only a handful of structures.
There are a few notable geographic features visible in the picture. Murray Hill was a swath of land owned by a wealthy Quaker family during the Revolution. It’s where Mrs. Murray famously (perhaps apocryphally) delayed general Howe with her hospitality, allowing General Washington and the Continental Army to escape to the north of the island. As good Quakers, though, the Murrays did not take sides in the Revolution (and their economic interests, which were mainly shipping, straddled both sides). For their neutrality, many Quakers were expelled after the Revolution, and although they were permitted to return a short time later, many opted to remain in England.
You can detect the slope in the terrain of the actual hill extending from around 39th Street downtown past where the Empire State Building is today.
The passage was cut through Murray Hill so the railroad wouldn’t have to climb up it. After 1855 (the year of the picture), railcars were required to be horse drawn below 42nd Street so as not to be a nuisance to the growing population. Here’s the tunnel today. (I made these especially big and they overlap the side panels, but it's worth it to see the pictures).
It’s also interesting to see what an ordinary road Broadway was in this part of town. Back in 1855 above 23rd Street it was the Bloomingdale Road, and would be renamed The Boulevard in 1866, finally taking the name Broadway in 1899.
And there’s a good reason Madison Square and Herald Square do not appear to be significant parts of town…
The center of town back in 1855 ran the stretch of Broadway from today’s NoHo and SoHo all the way to to City Hall. The town center would begin its shift to Madison Square around 1859, with the construction of the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Here’s a rather dramatic view from the same perspective, using Google Earth. The NYPL and Bryant Park have replaced the reservoir and the Crystal Palace (though that structure only stood five years, 1853-1858).
The commercial center of the city moved up Broadway, which from the tip of the island to within a few blocks of Union Square is uncharacteristically straight. The Bowery (in yellow) was the high ground, and the main route in and out of lower Manhattan though most of history. The city grew first up the Bowery before Broadway bridged Canal Street and the center of the city shifted over to Broadway around the 1830s.
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