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Commercial Building Commercial Building with Saloon Commercial Building with Saloon Commercial Building 21 Spruce: G.W. Griffith Leather Belting(click) 7 Rose St.: Van Benschoten & Williams, Traveling Bags (click) Saloon, and Merinsky Lithographed Labels, 5 North William St.(click) Saloon, 7 North William St. 27 Spruce: Mulford & Cary Leather Dealers (click) John G. Kuhn, Book Edge Gilder, 8 North William St. (click) Commercial Buildings with Saloons (click) Commercial Building, 21 North William St. Saloon and Book Binder, 14 North William (Click) Saloon, 217 William St. Saloon, 219 William St. Saloon, 16 North William St. 22 & 24 North William St.: F. Heppenheimer, Lithographer (click) Saloons in Commercial Buildings, 18 & 20 North William St. 25 Spruce: Heim & Zimmerman Leather Belting (click) Commercial Buildings Commercial Buildings Commercial Building with Saloon, 223 William St. (click) Commercial Building with Saloons, 55-57 Chatham St. (click) Commercial Buildings Commercial Building with Saloon, 231 William St. 7 Duane St.: Tenement House 5 New Chambers St.: Brothel in 1868 (click) 3 Chambers St.: East River Savings Bank [1864-65 Directory] Six-story Commercial Building, 17 Chatham 19 Chatham: N.Y. News[1864-65 Directory] 201 William: Wilkes' Spirit of the Times newspaper[1864-65 Directory] 11 Frankfort: N.Y. Dispatch and N.Y. Leader newspapers [1864-65 Directory] Commercial Buildings 9 Spruce: New York Courier newspaper[1864-65 Directory] Commercial Buildings North William Street: Heavy Line Indicates Sewer William Street: Heavy Line Indicates Sewer Shanty/Privy Shanty Site of Brawl Between Fire Companies, 1860 (click) Gooderson's Saloon, 9 Chatham: Site of Fire and Riot, 1860 (click) Saloon in a Commercial Building, 13 Chatham Commercial Building, 11 Chatham French's Hotel, Chatham St. Rear of 27 Rose St.:Tenement House adjoining Filthy Stable (click here) Ockershausen Brothers sugar refinery, destroyed by fire Feb. 1870 (Click here) Commercial Building Tenement Houses Tenement Houses Rear Tenement Shanty Uninhabitable Buildings Privy Privy Privies Privy Privy Shanty Stable Saloons in Commercial Buildings, 13 & 15 North William St. Saloon in Commercial Building, 3 North William St. E. Steiger, German News Agent, 17 &19 North William St. (click) Commercial Buildings, Frankfort St. Intersection of Frankfort and Rose streets Frankfort Street: Heavy Line Indicates Sewer Intersection of Frankfort, William and North William Frankfort Street: Heavy Line Indicates Sewer Commercial Buildings Rose Street Intersection of Chambers, William and Duane Commercial Buildings Tenement House Tenement House Tenement House Tenement House Tenement House with Saloon Tenement House with Saloon Tenement House Saloons Rear Tenement Adjoining Stable Commercial Building Commercial Building, 237 William St. Tenement House with Saloon Tenement House with Saloon, 221 William St.(click) Tenement House with Saloon Tenement House with Saloons Private Dwelling Private Dwelling Private Dwelling Private Dwelling Hotel Commercial Buildings Commercial Buildings Commercial Buildings Commercial Buildings Commercial Building, 233 William St. Commercial Buildings Commercial Building Commercial Building Commercial Building Tenement House with Saloon Rear Tenements Adjoining Filthy Privy Rear Tenements Adjoining Stables Rear Tenements Rear Tenement Rear Tenements Rear Tenements Rear Tenements Rear Tenements Tenement House Tenement House Tenement Houses Tenements Tenements Tenement Houses, some with Saloons Tenement House with Saloon Tenement Houses with Saloons Boarding House with Saloon Tenement House with Saloon Tenement House with Saloon Tenement Houses with Saloons, William St. (click) Row of Saloons Commercial Buildings Row of Saloons in Commercial Buildings, William St. (click) Commercial Buildings Commercial Building with Saloon Commercial Building Commercial Building Commercial Buildings Commercial Buildings with Saloons (click) Commercial Buildings Block of Commercial Buildings, Chatham St. Rear tenement: Smallpox in past year 37 Frankfort St.: Typhus or Typhoid in past year Privy in an Extremely Offensive Condition Stables Filthy stable causes disease (click here) Stable Stable Stable Stables Stable 156 Nassau St.: New York Tribune (click here) Nassau Street: Newspaper Row (click here) Part of the Second Ward Frankfort Street: Heavy Line Indicates Sewer Spruce Street: Heavy Line Indicates Sewer Chambers Street Duane Street William Street: Heavy Line Indicates Sewer Chatham Street (called Park Row today) 166 Nassau St.: Tammany Hall/New York Sun (click) MAP2
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