Hemstreet, Charles, b. 1866 · New York : C. Scribner · leaf 284
main thoroughfare of the city. Now the butchers and storekeepers had nowish to see their flourishing business locationtaken from them, and they fought bitterlyany attempt at a change. The talk in favor,and the argument in disfavor, of removing themarket went on for a long time, until, in1771, the… … TOWN MARKETS Finally a site was thought of that everybodyseemed satisfied with. The market in Broad-way was torn down, and a new one set up atMeisers Dock, on the Hudson River shore,just where the Washington Market is now.And the hrst meat sold in this new marketwas the tiesh of a hear that had…
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