1839
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1839 - In 1839, one guidebook claimed there were thirty-two houses of assignation and eighty-seven brothels in this part of New York. Even allowing for the exaggerated claims of the guidebook, most of the dwellings in Corlears Hook were devoted to the sale of sex (see ...prostitution—Corlears Hook. Located at the easternmost end of Manhattan at Grand Street, the Hook attracted a small cluster of wild saloons and inexpensive brothels, with most of the latter along Walnut (later Jackson) Street. Only seven blocks in length and adjacent to the city's bustling shipyards, coal and granite dumps, mills, and the Allaire Iron Works, Walnut Street probably had the highest concentration of commercial sex in New York. In 1839, one guidebook claimed there ...
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1844
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1844 - Edward "Ned" Harrigan was born in 1844 in Corlear's Hook, also known as Cork Row, on the lower east side of Manhattan, a tough neighborhood with a very ethnically diverse population. His grandfather was born in Cork, and emigrated to Newfoundland, Canada in the late 18th ...
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1851
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1851 - Corlear's Hook at its peak had the greatest shipyards in the world. They produced the yacht America that beat its British rival to take the first cup in 1851. It was also something of a red light district. Filled with sailors, saloons and bordellos, it's thought ...Corlear's Hook at its peak had the greatest shipyards in the world. They produced the yacht America that beat its British rival to take the first cup in 1851. It was also something of a red light district. Filled with sailors, saloons and bordellos, it's thought that the word 'hooker' comes from there - from the women who worked the Hook. Abiel Abbot Low Low In the mid-1800's, Abiel Abbot Low was one of the princes of the South Street waterfront.
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1853
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May 21, 1853 - A serious accident occurred yesterday morning, to Commodore VANDERBILT'S steam-yacht North Star, which will detain her at this port for several weeks. During the forenoon the employees on the vessel were busily engaged in preparing her for sea. Steam was got up, and the engineer ...
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1870
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Jul 3, 1870 - Corlear's Hook is the Five Points of the thirteenth Ward. In days gone by many daring deeds of villany have been consummated in its malarious slums, and, although it is not now a place where unprotected ladies walk at night assured of safety, the efforts that have been made to reclaim ...
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1873
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Mar 19, 1873 - A veto oP those interested along East River would be in favor of the boats above Corlear's Hook. lair. Chittenden spoke a:;ainst the . It would be unwise to underrate the dani=era on Eaat River, yet for thirty or forty years there boats had been without a single accident of the kind ...
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1877
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Jul 25, 1877 - Telegram from San Franciieo, July 25, 1877. Hook. (Dutch, hoek, a corner, a cape.) This name is given, in New York, to several angular points in the North and East Rivers; as, Corlear's Hook, Powle's Hook, Sandy Hook.The outrages thus 1'ar, in San Francisco, seem to have been committed by unorganized gangs of vicious hoodlum*. — Telegram from San Franciieo, July 25, 1877. Hook. (Dutch, hoek, a corner, a cape.) This name is given, in New York, to several angular points in the North and East Rivers; as, Corlear's Hook, Powle's Hook, Sandy Hook.
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1879
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Aug 1879 - Co. took the Hroiiklyn business, and OF Hawley, Jr. III. New York business, at 40 Gold street, and the lumlier yanl was removed to Corlear's Hook, NY On theL'Othof August, 1879, the Brooklyn mill was burned down, and on the 23d of August, OF Ilawley, Sr., died very ...
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1881
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Dec 1881 - BROWN, J. On the tenth day of December, 1881, the libelant's schooner Commerce was sunk through a collision with the schooner Kirk, in tow of the Rotan, in the East river, about 200 feet off the point of the Corlear's Hook. The Commerce was bound up the ...BROWN, J. On the tenth day of December, 1881, the libelant's schooner Commerce was sunk through a collision with the schooner Kirk, in tow of the Rotan, in the East river, about 200 feet off the point of the Corlear's Hook. The Commerce was bound up the East river, the wind being north, and the tide the last of the flood, and slack. She was sailing close-hauled, on her port tack, heading about NE by E., and so as to make the Grand-street ferry on the Brooklyn shore, and ...
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1885
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Mar 29, 1885 - The lust Legislature authorized tho city to such Land as might ho needed for n at Corlear's Kook, on the east sido, in addition to that already owned by the city t.lio cost of the additional laud to be about $750,OLIO. Senator TJ Campbell yesterday before the Doard of Street ...
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1886
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Oct 7, 1886 - While the steamer Continental was passing Corlear's Hook on hot way up the East River Tuesday evening she came in collision with the tug Municipal with a scow in tow. Her stem piece was carried away and her bow was otherwise so badly damaged that she put back to her wharf and landed ...
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1889
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Dec 2, 1889 - BROWN, J. The above cross-libels were filed by the owners of the steamers Niagara and Express, each about 298 feet long, to recover the damages sustained by them, respectively, through a colli,sian in the East a little before noon on December 2, 1889, just ...BROWN, J. The above cross-libels were filed by the owners of the steamers Niagara and Express, each about 298 feet long, to recover the damages sustained by them, respectively, through a colli,sian in the East a little before noon on December 2, 1889, just above Corlear's Hook. The steam-tugs Starbuck and Charm were made parties defendant in the original cause under the twenty-ninth rule, upon the petition of the owners of the Express. Upon the filing of the petition, the own ...
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1890
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Sep 6, 1890 - The steamer Continental of the New-Haven Line ran down the steamer CH Northam of the same line a little after 3 o clock yesterday afternoon in the East River, off Corlear's Hook. Although both vessels had a large number of passengers on board, only four persons were injured and they ...
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1893
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Dec 27, 1893 - The Controller was authorized to issue bonds to the extent of $1370421 for the Corlear's Hook Park. This includes $50000 for the fees of the Commissioners ... Congressman Timothy J. Campbell asked the board to appropriate $200000 for the purpose of putting Corlear's Hook Park in order, ...
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1894
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Mar 24, 1894 - Controller Fitch has prepared a bill which Assistant Corporation Counsel Blandy has taken to Albany and which will, if passed by the Legislature, extricate the Controller from the dilemma in which he has been placed by his inability to sell the Corlears Hook Park bonds. ...
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1895
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May 4, 1895 - The ten acres of land bounded by Front, Jackson, Cherry, and Corlears Streets known as Corlears Hook is now in process of being converted into a park. MAKING HOOK A PARK A Breathing Space for the Crowded East Side Fronting the River to be Laid Out. The ten acres of land bounded by ...
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1896
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Jun 23, 1896 - Corlears Hook Park was formally opened last night to the public by the Mayor and other city officials. The spot where the renowned Anthony the ... It is of architecture, with many shapely columns and a fine floor. li was the scene last night of the cere- Shelter at Corlears Hook Park. ...
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1897
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Oct 30, 1897 - He spoke at Mulberry Bend Park and Corlears Hook, and at each place vigorously denounced Van Wyck as "a mask, not a man," and paid a high personal tribute to Henry ... At the Corlears Hook meeting Richard %'amon Gilder was the chief speaker. He repeated there his remarks at 2 Bend. ...
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1898
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Jan 6, 1898 - Papers Past is a collection of digitised historic New Zealand newspapers which offers browsing and full text searching.
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1899
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Jun 26, 1899 - Progralumes ttt Corlears Hook and '%Itllshin Sqllare. There will be music in Corlears Hook and Washington Square Parks this evening at S o clock. ... Mills This programme zill be given at Corlear$ Hook Park by Ward's Band: Prelude. "Star-Spangled Banner" ........... Key }[. ...
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1903
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Jul 1, 1903 - Later, at the meeting of the Corlears Hook Board. It was decided that the city should expend .OOO to open a street at the west side of Corlears Hook Park, so that a view of the East River can be obtained from the park, one block from the river. This will necessitate the removal of some ...
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1904
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Apr 7, 1904 - On April 7, 1904, Timothy Campbell died. He was one of the foremost leaders of the Democratic Party in New York City. The secret of his success lay in his absolute honesty, his respect for his word, and his great foresight. He worked for the people who elected ...On April 7, 1904, Timothy Campbell died. He was one of the foremost leaders of the Democratic Party in New York City. The secret of his success lay in his absolute honesty, his respect for his word, and his great foresight. He worked for the people who elected him to office. He gave them freely the benefit of his talents, whether in his profession as a lawyer or in his duties as a legislator. He was largely instrumental in opening two of the parks in New York City, Corlear's ...
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1909
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Apr 13, 1909 - ADAMS, District Judge. On the night of April 13, 1909, about 1:30 am, the schooner Honora Butler, about 76 feet long, laden with a cargo of manure, and bound for Naubuc, Connecticut, collided with the tug Nanuet and a carfloat in tow on the starboard side ...ADAMS, District Judge. On the night of April 13, 1909, about 1:30 am, the schooner Honora Butler, about 76 feet long, laden with a cargo of manure, and bound for Naubuc, Connecticut, collided with the tug Nanuet and a carfloat in tow on the starboard side of the tug. They were proceeding down the river. The collision occurred about off Corlear's Hook. The weather was clear, the tide strong flood. The schooner was sunk causing a loss, said to have been $3000 and upwards.
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1910
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May 22, 1910 - MORE THAN 100 PARTIES OUT Sudden Shower Breaks Up the Big Fesival in Corlears Hook Park, Every One Being Forced to Seek Shelter. ... W.ashes Away the Music and Puts All to Rout at Corlears Hook Park. It was just the meanest possible *ort of thunder shower which succeeded in breakins up ...
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1911
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Jun 12, 1911 - Commissioner Stover has plans to increase the size of Corlears Hook Park and better its condition by rebuilding the crumbling sea wall and diverting the Belt Line cars so that South Street can be included in the park. The Commissioner also wants to remove the old Staten Island ...
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1922
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Jul 10, 1922 - Corlears Hook, Corlears Hook and Jackson Street. DWVItt Clinton, Fifty-third Street and Eleventh Avenue. Past Seventeenth Street, East River. I 'ive Pohas, Baxter and \i orth Streets. Hamilton fish I-Iouston and f Itt Streets. Hudson, Clarkson and Hudson Streets. ...
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1929
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Sep 21, 1929 - "It is tentatively planned to construct the combined public street and marginal street from Corlears Hook to Twenty-sixth Street similar to the existing wide waterfront streets along the Hudson River. From Twenty-sixth Street north to Fiftyfourth Street, the treatment of the waterfront ...
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1930
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Jul 1, 1930 - The waterfront park, which the committee says should be created as an enlargement of the existing Corlears Hook Park, would start at East Houston Street ... Yacht basins are suggested at either end, with a large recreation building at Corlears Hook and several acres of playground under ...
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