Pump, long covered up and disused, again in use, but unknown, in the liquor store of a Mr. Fagan, 126 Chatham Street."
A
dry well with free stone wall sunk in the sand was uncovered in
digging the present subway at Astor Place and 4th Avenue. It was
completely dry.
In
the reminiscences of David Grim we learn that at Augusta Street there
was a valley between Windmill Hill and Pot-Baker's Hill, about the
center of Augusta Street, and midway of Pearl and Parly Streets.
The
various inlets or small harbors known as slips, so prevalent on the
East River side of the city, are thus designated and described by David
Grim:
Whitehall
Slip took its name from Colonel Moore's large white house. The house
was adjoining to this slip, and was usually called the White Hall.
The
next was Coen and Anty's Slip (Conrad and Jane), called so after Conrad
Ten Eyck and Jane, his wife; they lived at the corner of Little Dock
Street and that slip.
The next was called the Old Slip, being the first in the city.
The
other was called Burling Slip, after the name of a Mr. Burling, a
respectable family living at the corner of Smith's Flie (now Pearl
Street) and Golden Hill.
The next was called Beekman's Slip, so named after a family living at the southwest corner of Pearl Street and said slip.
The
next and last on the East River was called Peck Slip, after the name of
Mr. Peck, who was proprietor of the land on the side of said slip.
There was only one slip on the North River side, that at the foot of Oswego, now Liberty Street.
Cherry
Street, which took its name from running through or to a cherry
orchard, is one of the old streets of New York, and the contrasted
topography about it in old days is gleaned from chance relations,
deeds, records, etc., which show " that the heirs of Govert Loockerman
sold at auction a lot on this island at the ferry formerly belonging to
Egbert Van Borsum, also a parcel of meadow with a slip of upland
abutting thereto
