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CORLEAR’S HOOK CHRONOLOGY
1609 1609 - The work “hook” is in many place names. We have Red Hook, Sandy Hook,
Corlear's Hook, Howland Hook, and Jeffrey's Hook. “Kinder” mean “children” in Dutch.
When the explorer Henry Hudson sailed up the river in 1609 he saw Indian children
playing on a sand bar ...
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1624 1624 - The island was not a place of permanent abode of the Indians, but was only
occupied during certain seasons. It was sold to Minuet, the first director-general of the
Holland government, in 1624, and was then estimated to contain about twenty-two
thousand acres. The ...
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1633 Jun 8, 1633 - and on 8 June, 1633. landed with a company of soldiers at what is now
Dutch Point, Hartford, and erected a trading-factory, called the House of Hope. Hans
JanseEencluys, being in charge of the artillery, forbore to fire on the Englishman, William
Holmes, while ...
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1636 1636 - In 1636, William Adrianse Bennet and Jacques Bentyn purchased a tract of land
at Gowanus ; and in the following year, George de Rapalie bought the farm that long
remained in the possession of his descendants, on a bay opposite to Corlear's Hook,
which became ...
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1639 1639 - _d in 1639 or because the map maker was not up to date iri his information. On
this map Van Corlear still appears in his Manhattan stronghold known as Corlear's
Hook. There are, however, several other farms, indicated with names, in Brooklyn, in the
Red Hook ...
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1640 1640 - David Pietrcz De Vrut in his Reyze naer Nieuw-Nederlandt onder het year 1640,"
makes mention of one Corlear, a trumpeter in Fort Amsterdam, who gave name to
Corlear's Hook, and who was doubtless this same champion, described by Mr.
Knickerbocker.
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1640 - He was among those who had attacked the Raritan village in 1640 seeking the
contribution. There he had used a piece of splintered wood to mutilate the genitals of the
village leader's brother. He was also present at Corlear's Hook.40 He was from the town
of ...
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1643 1643 - Corlear's Hook. — This point of land, be- low Grand Street and opposite the
Navy Yard, has been called Corlear's Hook since Stuyve- sant granted the property to
one sturdy Van Corlear, for faithful services rendered. In 1643 ^ number of Indians
having encamped ...
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1643 - Originally spared in the reprisals for the attacks at Pavonia and Corlears Hook
that began Kieft's War in 1643, the residents were ordered back to the relative safety of
Fort Amsterdam and replaced by a regiment of soldiers with cannons. Perceived as an
act of war ...
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Feb 1643 - In February, 1643, eighty savages were surprised and massacred at
Pavonia, and forty or fifty more -were murdered in their sleep at Corlears Hook. And as
if to begin the war by making as many enemies as possible, the friendly Marechkawiecks
of Long Island were ...
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Feb 1643 - At the middle of a cold night late in February, 1643, Sergeant Rudolf and his
men fell upon the defenceless Tappans at Hoboken, who were sleeping in fancied
security. At the same time Sergeant Adriaensen smote the Weckquaesgeeks, who had
taken refuge with the ...
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Feb 1643 - At the middle of a cold night late in February, 1643, Sergeant Rudolf and his
men fell upon tlie defenceless Tappans at Iloboken, who were sleeping in fancied
security. At the same time Sergeant Adriaensen smote tho Weckcpiaesgeeks, who had
taken refuge with the ...
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Feb 8, 1643 - Because Willem Kieft was not happy with the reply of the council of twelve,
he disassembled the council on February 8, 1643. Kieft then ordered the Dutch West
India Company soldiers to attack nearby Indian encampments at Pavonia and Corlears
Hook. Escalating ...
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Feb 23, 1643 - In what has become known as the Pavonia Massacre, he ordered a
surprise attack to be made on the night of February 23rd, 1643. Maryn Andriansen was
sent with a group of militia to Corlear's Hook, while Sergeant Rodolf and his soldiers
from Fort Amsterdam were ...
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Feb 25, 1643 - Kieft ordered they be attacked on February 25, 1643. The initial strike
was a slaughter: 129 Dutch soldiers killed approximately 120 people (including women
and children): eighty at Pavonia and thirty at Corlear's Hook (Lower East Side).
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Feb 25, 1643 - At midnight, February 25th, 1643, Sergeant Rodolf suddenly appeared
with a band of soldiers amid the lodges at Pavonia. The flashes and reports of guns, the
yelping of warriors, the shrieks of women and children, and the glare of burning lodges
made an Inferno of ...
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Feb 26, 1643 - Kieft, equally blood-thirsty, and gloating over the prospect of wholesale
murder, "was deaf to the remonstrances of the Council, and of David Pieterson De Vries
and others, who saw the madness of the act; and ambitious to perform a deed which he
declared was worthy of ...
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Feb 27, 1643 - On Feb 27, 1643, he and Maryn Andriaensen, by order of Gov Kieft, led
an attack on Indians camped at Corlear's Hook, killing 30 of them, and beginning Kieft's
Indian War. He visited Holland several times, setting up trading and business contacts.
He was also ...
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Jun 1643 - Soon after their buildings had been raised in June, 1643, Indians stirred up
by Kieft's attempts to tax them and by the slaughter of over 100 0f their number at
Corlear's Hook, went on the war path. The 40+ men of the community were able to
repel an attack, but ...
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1645 1645 - In 1645, Cornelis became the grantee of 22 acres of land at Crown Point,
Corlears Hook, adjoinging the Corlear plantation. The property had a long frontage on
the East River.
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1647 1647 - On the Skillman,, or maternal side, William Holcombe was a direct descendant of
that William Beekman who came to the New Netherlands with Governor Stuyvesant in
1647, and who purchased Corlear's Hook, afterward known as Crown Point, and of
Claes Arente Van ...
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1652 1652 - Corlear's Hook, which means a point, was originally called Nechtant by the
Indians, and was doubtless from its locality a favourite spot with them. There Van Cpr-
lear, who was trumpeter at the fort under Van Twiller, had laid out his little farm, which he
sold in 1652 to ...
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1670 1670 - In the course of years he rose to distinction. At one time he was vice-director of
the colony on the Delaware, and at another time was Sheriff at Esopus. He was nine
years a burgomaster of New Amsterdam. In 1670 he bought a farm stretching along the
East River ...
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1677 1677 - In 16G2 he purchased Corlear's Hook, for 750 guilders ; in 1677 he is mentioned
as a brewer in New York, where the present " William " and " Beekman ** streets still
bear his name. By his wife, Catharine de Boogh,he had (I believe) six children.
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1690 1690 - During the seventeenth century choirmasters came from England, singing
societips for rendering church music were formed, and in 1690 music was first printed in
the colonies.
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1728 1728 - The first shipbuilding yards in Manhattan were established at the foot of Catherine
Street in 1728. By the 1790's the yards covered the waterfront all the way to Corlears
Hook, attracting carpenters, smiths, shipwrights, coopers, chandlers, joiners, sail makers
...
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1730 1730 - Affairs glided on smoothly enough during his administration, the principal event in
it being the grant of an amended city charter in 1730. By this charter, the limits of the city
were made to comprehend four hundred feet below low-water mark on the Hudson River
from ...
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1741 Sep 15, 1741 - Lying between that and Corlear's Hook are Walton's, French's,
Wessel's, Vaness' and Bennet's yards. Under date of Sept. 15, 1741, Lt.-Gov. Clarke
recites to the Lords of Trade how on his arrival trade had reached "utmost destruction,
occasioned by excess of ...
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1761 Feb 16, 1761 - On February 16, 1761, the New York Mercury announced that a
gormagon had been captured. It said that it would be displayed at James Elliot's tavern in
Corlear's Hook. The monster was to remain there until the curious were satisfied.
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1769 Aug 21, 1769 - The New-York Gazette and the Weekly Mercury, August 21, 1769. Map
of Virginia.
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1776 Sep 1776 - Early in September, 1776, the American Army under General Washington,
evacuated the City and retired to Harlem Heights; General Greene strenuously advised
the destruction of the City. The spade had been liberally used, Fort George—the battery
below and to the ...
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1777 1777 - Campbell even bought newspaper space to declare his loyalty to the crown as the
British occupied the city; but Campbell's business fell off; and in 1777, he put the
property up for sale.
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1781 1781 - At a short dis- tance in front, are the ruins of a battery, erected during the
revolutionary war, on the hill behind Belvidere, On these mouloer- ing raraparts, there is
a pleasant walk and prospect ; and behind Ranelagh, are consi- derable remains of that
entrenchment ...
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1783 Aug 1783 - In the month of August, 1783, on a fine evening, seven young Whigs were
together along the shore opposite to Corlear's Hook, the tide then being quite high. Two
British long boats had drifted on shore, where they had lain for some time. It was
proposed to take the ...
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1794 Dec 18, 1794 - MR. EDWARD LAIGHT was the owner of a country residence near
Corlear's Hook. He died on the 18th December, 1794. and was buried in Trinity Church
yard. A likeness of him remains in the possession of his descendants. His family and the
name of Laight were ...
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1797 1797 - The Bushwick Ferry was started by James Hazard in 1797, a rowboat being
operated between Hazard's farm on Corlear's Hook and the Fountain Inn on the Long
Island side.
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1798 1798 - [FEB. put into my hands another letter by Lady Temple (with many old Watson
papers) written two years later from New York, and describing in much detail the robbery
of Sir Grenville's house near Corlear's Hook, New York, by a band of armed brigands in
1798, the ...
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1799 Jun 5, 1799 - NEW YORK, 5 June, 1799. MY DEAR SIR : ... I have nothing new that is
worth communicating. Our little navy is increasing. In a day or two we shall have a ship
launched that is building for Valentine Morris, one of the sons of the late General Morris.
In ...
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1802 1802 - In 1802, Richard Woodhull, spurred by the idea of creating a residential suburb of
Manhattan, began a ferry service from present-day Metropolitan Avenue in Brooklyn to
Corlear's Hook on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
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1804 1804 - Stevens family owned nearly all of the land in that neighbourhood, and founded
the city of Hoboken in 1804. John Stevens — Colonel Stevens — built the steamship
Phoenix, the first vessel depending entirely upon steam propulsion to cross the Atlantic.
The first ...
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80.
1806 Dec 1806 - Upon his arrival in America from England in December, 1806, after a voyage
of two months from Falmouth, Fulton immediately devoted himself to his several projects.
The winter was passed in the construction of the American boat, which he called the
Clermont in ...
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1807 1807 - Among them were such masters of the art as Cheeseman, Webb, Vail,
Westervelt, McKay, and Charles Brownne, whose yard at Corlear's Hook built Robert
Fulton's first successful steamboat, in 1807. The skill and daring of these early marine
architects soon brought ...
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1810 1810 - He must have been very successful in business, for in 1810 we find he purchased
in the immediate vicinity of his yard, "on the banks of the East River near a place called
Corlears Hook" a plot of about 150 ft. x 200 ft. for thirteen thousand dollars, and about
...
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1811 1811 - He estab- lished a,'ferry from Corlears Hook, and sold a few lots. But he did little
else, excepting to fail in 1811. Thomas Morrell, of Newtown, had mean- while laid out
twenty-eight acres to the eastward, between North Second and South First streets, and
...
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1812 May 1812 - Early in May, 1812, the common council received a letter from Col. Williams
about southeast point of Corlear's Hook, near the junction of Corlear and Front streets.
As the United States government was.
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1813 1813 - The present Washington Market- house was erected and opened in 1813. There
were two ferries to Brooklyn, one from FI3' Market Slip near the foot of Maiden Lane, and
the other from Catherine Slip ; one to Paulus Hook, now Jersej- City ; one to
Elizabethtown ...
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1818 1818 - The system of rewards and discipline occupied the special attention of the board
during a part of the year, and the report of the committee to whom that subject had been
assigned was submitted at the first meeting held in 1818. During the latter part of the
year, the ...
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1818 - Scarborough, of Savannah, Ga. At fir.st .she was intended to be used as a .sailing
packet between New York and Havre, France. The keel was laid in 1818, and the vessel
was launched Augu.st 22 of the same year. While the Sa' annah stood upon the stocks
she ...
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Aug 22, 1818 - According to the New York Custom House records, he measurements
were: length, 98 ½ feet; beam, 26 feet, depth of hold, 14 ½ feet; tonnage, 319. Prior to
her launching on August 22, 1818, she was purchased by Scarborough & Isaacs of
Savannah, on behalf of ...
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1819 1819 - In 1819, the Savannah, an American vessel of 380 tons burden, built at Corlear's
Hook, NY, made the first steam voyage across the Atlantic. The steamer went from New
York to Savannah, Ga., and thence to England. From England she proceeded to St.
Petersburg ...
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1820 1820 - Corlears Hook in 1820, The Wagnerian cult, and Our manners - Hawkins, Rush
C. (Rush Christopher), 1831-1920 Keywords: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883; Corlears
Hook (New York, NY); New York (NY) -- Social life and customs.
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1826 Feb 25, 1826 - Four hundred feet in width of the land under water from low water mark,
was, in like manner, granted to the corporation by the act of February 25, 1826, chapter
58, from the above- mentioned point four miles north of Bestaver's Killetjie, or near
Charlton street.
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1827 1827 - The settlements which grew up about these two ferries, along with all the territory
between Broadway and Newtown Creek, took the name of Williamsburgh, and in 1827
received incorporation as a village.
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106.
1830 1830 - Circa 1830, Benjamin with sons Samuel and Benjamin Jr. started a shipyard in
Williamsburg by Caylaer's Street, but initially lived at 735 Water Street, NYC, then at
Corlear's Hook, NYC, then later in Greenpoint.
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1833 1833 - The first tenements in the city were erected near Corlear's Hook in 1833, and
Irish immigrants settled in the northern section along the Bowery. Kleindeutschland
developed north of Houston Street in the 1840s.
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1835 Sep 25, 1835 - The "New York Transcript" of 25 September 1835, contains an
interesting report of a police court hearing in which a woman of ill repute is called a
hooker because she “hangs around the hook," or Corlear's Hook, a notorious waterfront
area of Brooklyn known for ...
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1839 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 ...
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1844 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 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 ...
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1853 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 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 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 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.
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126.
1879 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 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 ...
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130.
1885 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 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 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 ...
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1890 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 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 $200000 for the
purpose of putting Corlear's Hook Park in order, ...
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140.
1894 Mar 24, 1894 - Controller Fitch has prepared a bill which Assistant Corporation Counsel
Blandy has taken to Albany and which will, if passed by the Legislature, extricate the
Controller from the dilemma in which he has been placed by his inability to sell the
Corlears Hook Park bonds. ...
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142.
1895 May 4, 1895 - The ten acres of land bounded by Front, Jackson, Cherry, and Corlears
Streets known as Corlears Hook is now in process of being converted into a park.
MAKING HOOK A PARK A Breathing Space for the Crowded East Side Fronting the
River to be Laid Out. The ten acres of land bounded by ...
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1896 Jun 23, 1896 - Corlears Hook Park was formally opened last night to the public by the
Mayor and other city officials. The spot where the renowned Anthony the ... It is of
architecture, with many shapely columns and a fine floor. li was the scene last night of
the cere- Shelter at Corlears Hook Park. ...
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1897 Oct 30, 1897 - He spoke at Mulberry Bend Park and Corlears Hook, and at each place
vigorously denounced Van Wyck as "a mask, not a man," and paid a high personal
tribute to Henry ... At the Corlears Hook meeting Richard %'amon Gilder was the chief
speaker. He repeated there his remarks at 2 Bend. ...
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148.
1898 Jan 6, 1898 - Papers Past is a collection of digitised historic New Zealand newspapers
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1899 Jun 26, 1899 - Progralumes ttt Corlears Hook and '%Itllshin Sqllare. There will be music
in Corlears Hook and Washington Square Parks this evening at S o clock. ... Mills This
programme zill be given at Corlear$ Hook Park by Ward's Band: Prelude. "Star-
Spangled Banner" ........... Key }[. ...
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1903 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 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 ...
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1909 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 ...
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158.
1910 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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160.
1911 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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162.
1922 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 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 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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168.
1931 Feb 16, 1931 - Yet, with this ever-present likelihood confronting him, we find him
deliberately choosing to round Corlear's Hook, not at or near mid-channel, where he
would have a reasonable chance to set his course successfully for either passage past
the drill boat, but within 150 feet of the Hook. ...
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1933 May 22, 1933 - The engine and the boilers were products of New Jersey; the SS
Savannah was built at Corlear's Hook, New York. nnd the crew word Connecticut men,
recruited In Now London, to sail on n vessel which they freely dubbed a " coflin." It is said
that Cnptnln Moses Rogers hud to so to his ...
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1934 Dec 10, 1934 - This litigation arises out of a collision in the East River, just above
Corlears Hook, which occurred on the evening of January 15, 1930, ... Here the Bern's
course in coming up so close along the shore as to box in any vessel which might be met
at Corlears Hook created a situation of ...
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174.
1937 Mar 1, 1937 - A plan to establish large strictly residential districts in the Corlears Hook
section of the East Side was presented last night by the East Side Chamber of
Commerce to Borough President Samuel Levy, who said he would support the plan in
the Board of Estimate. ...
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1938 Oct 7, 1938 - ASSEMBLING SITE POR-GITY HOUSING First Parcels at Corlears Hook
Park Bought for Less Than Assessed Value . ... This is the land in the Corlears Hook
Park section for the purchase of which the Board of Estimate last July voted $300000,
which the Housing Authority will repay when the ...
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178.
1939 May 8, 1939 - What remains of Corlears Hook within the rough boundaries of
Gouverneur, Madison, Jackson and Water Streets on the Lower East Side will offer only
feeble resistance to the first wave of demolition crews today as the New York City
Housing Authority starts work on an $11200000 project. ...
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180.
1940 Jul 16, 1940 - Residents throughout the Corlears Hook Park neighborhood flocked to
the newly completed Vladeck City Houses yesterday to welcome the first sixty low-
income families moving into the sunny, airy, attractive homes. At building 24, at 18
Jackson ... son Street, visitors added to congestion ...
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182.
1941 Sep 15, 1941 - The complete rebuilding and modernization of "bedraggled" old Corlears
Hook Park, which now forms a link in the East River Park that makes a continuous mile-
and-a-half unit of parks fronting on the East River, is announced by Robert Moses, Park
Commissioner, in a pictorial report ...
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1951 Apr 3, 1951 - The board of Estimate unanimously approved yesterday two eas for slum
clearance and redevelopment recommended by the Committee on Slum Clearance, of
which City Construction Coordinator Robert Moses is chairman. The first such projects
Title I of the National Housing Act of 1949 to get ...
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186.
1952 May 8, 1952 - Union leaders stressed that the Corlears Hook development, which will
have an average rental of $17 a room, would not be limited to members of the garment
union, even though the organization has nearly 200000 members in the metropolitan
area. Only about onethird of the 1600 families ...
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1955 Oct 23, 1955 - The first group of 1668 families to occupy the ILGWU Cooperative Village,
on the East River in the Corlears Hook section, will begin moving in tomorrow. The New
York Times (by Carl T. Gossett Jr.) Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, David Dubinsky, center,
head of the ILGWU, ...
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1956 1956 - The Corlears Hook (ILGWU Cooperative Village) Houses, built in 1956. NORTH
OF GRAND Cannon Street, now just an echo of its former self, exists as an alley
between Delancey and Broome west of Lewis Street. It has survived because it faces a
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1957 May 16, 1957 - An old East Side neighborhood that now embraces a new community is
undergoing a rejuvenating street-widening operation. In the Corlears Hook area, where
old-law tenements became .ne first homes of hundreds o of immigrants, a ;340000
program is under way make the neighborhood more ...
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1959 Sep 15, 1959 - "The median rent paid previously by Corlears Hook tenants was $41
monthly, and by Morningside tenants $61 monthly. In Corlears Hook the proportion of
income spent for housing increased than 9 per cent to almost 14 per cent: at Iorni, the
increase was from a little lcss than 10 per cent ...
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196.
1988 Nov 6, 1988 - Corlear's Hook in . . . New York." (Actually Brooklyn, near Coney Island.)
Editor's note: It may be that the term was born in Brooklyn, but came into widespread
use only after its association with Gen. Joseph Hooker, when the origin may have
become lost. Over the years countless ...
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1994 Aug 20, 1994 - He also guessed that the word was derived from Corlear's Hook, a
district in New York City, but there is no evidence that the term originated in New York.
Norman Ellsworth Eliason traced this use of "hooker" back to 1845 in North Carolina. He
re ported the usage in tarheel Talk, . ...
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