Caption line 1: "Street Views No. 1. - Park Row."<br><p>Caption line 2: "Drawn and Engraved for the New York Mirror. 1830."<br></p><p>Credit line: "Drawn by C. Burton. Engraved by Wm. D. Smith."<br></p><p>From the <i>Mirror</i>:<br></p><p>"Exactly over the top of the <i>second</i> carriage in the picture appears the upper story of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall#Headquarters" class="extiw" title="en:Tammany Hall">Tammany-hall</a>, with its white-washed front, reminding us of 'an old acquaintance with a new face', while the driver and horses of the <i>first</i> carriage, with the aid of a friendly tree, have saved the artist the trouble of glazing a half dozen windows in the west wall of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_Presbyterian_Church_(Manhattan)#History" class="extiw" title="en:Brick Presbyterian Church (Manhattan)">Brick Meeting</a>; which, whether visible or not, actually stands behind that very tree. Its elegant spire is sufficiently conspicuous over the roof-tree of Professor Chilton's four-story domicil [sic]; and it is but civil to add, that this gentleman is an operative chemist and druggist of no ordinary celebrity. Turner's grocery at the corner of Beekman-street, being a little shantee [sic], not much larger than the body of a hackney coach, is totally concealed by the heads of the horses before mentioned; a very convenient screen by the by, to prevent our witnessing any accidental violation of the constitution and by-laws of the temperance society." (emphasis in original)<br></p>
To the right of Chilton's are, from left to right, the Chatham Hotel; a house of entertainment called Bachelor's Hall; Morse's City Coffee House; a low, two-story building, half of which is occupied by Thomas Lewis, boot- and shoemaker, and the other half by James Sweeny; the Theatre Hotel; the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Theatre_(Manhattan)" class="extiw" title="en:Park Theatre (Manhattan)">Park Theatre</a>; the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sock_and_Buskin" class="extiw" title="en:Sock and Buskin">Sock and Buskin</a> House hotel; the apothecary-store of Messrs. Place &amp; Souillard; the porter-house of Messrs. M. &amp;. E. Cronly; and a small section of Ira Clark's establishment.
Drawn by Charles Burton. Engraved by William D. Smith.
Published August 7, 1830
<p>Allen, Oliver E. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12912&amp;page=4">"The Park on the Park",</a> Forum of the <i>Wired New York</i> website. Posted 2013-03-15. Caption reads: "The second Park Theatre on Park Row, then known as Chatham Street, in 1830. At left is City Hall Park. Images courtesy of the New-York Historical Society."<br></p><p>Originally published in <i>The New-York Mirror, a Repository of Polite Literature and the Arts</i> Vol. 8 No. 5 (1830-08-07), on a non-numbered page, accompanied by the article, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015082479125;view=1up;seq=39">"Views in the City of New-York: Park Row",</a> pp. 33-4.<br></p>
Also online at Museum of the City of New York website, Image ID: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://collections.mcny.org/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult_VPage&amp;VBID=24UAYWLYDS9A&amp;SMLS=1&amp;RW=1605&amp;RH=934">F2011.37.14</a>. (Click on magnifying glass icon for high resolution pan-and-zoom box.)