THE LANDMARK MAP REFERENCE KEY
Collect Street. Former name of Centre Street bet.
Peari and Hester Sts.—Post's Old Streets, n. Opened
from Magazine (Peari) to Anthony (Worth) St.
1808 (M. C. C, MS., XIX: 273); Brooks Street ceded
and became a p. o. Collect Street i8Qg (ibid., XIX:
420); assessment for opening published t8io.^Ibid.,
XXI: 362. Shown on PL 99, VoL III.
[PT. 174: 166—PL I75-- 236]
College Place. From the north side of the College
grounds to the land of Lispenard ceded to the Cor-
porarion by Trinity Church,—71/, C. C, VI: 263;
cf. MS. deed and map In possession of the Comp¬
troller. Name changed to West Broadway 1866.—
Pro. Bds. Aid. and Councilmen, XXXIV: 191. See
Chapel Street; Laurens Street.
[PL 174; S6—PL 175-192]
Collister Street. Regulated 1818,—TW. C. C.
(MS.), XXXVI: 175- Shown on PL 99. Vol. III.
[Pl. 175: 214-215]
Columbia Street. Opened 1811.—Tl/. C. C. (MS.),
XXIII: 173-4; XXIV: 77- Name changed to Burrows
Street "in memory of Lieut. Burrows, late of the U. S.
Sloop of war Enterprise" 1813.-71/. C. C. (MS.),
XXVII: 331. Now Grove Street (q. v.). Beginning
shown (1799) on PI. 70, VoL I.
Columbian Alley. Former name of Jersey Street.
—Post's Old Streets, il. Shown on PI. 99, Vol. III.
Columbus Avenue. See Ninth Avenue.
Commerce Street. Partly laid out prior to 1799
(Pl. 70, Vol. I); opened and extended to Barrow St.
1837.-jW. C. C. (MS.), LXI: 286. [PL 175: 5^4-5^7]
Commons Street. Former name of Park Row.—
—Post's Old Streets, n.
Concord Street. Same as Laurens Street (Map of
the West Bayard Farm, Spielman & Brush's Original
Maps, 4); later South Fifth Avenue, and now West
Broadway.
Congress Street. [Pl. 175: 520]
Convent Avenue. [Pl. 179:1967-2060]
Cooper Street. [PT. 180: 3339-2242]
Coopers Street. Former name of Fletcher Street.—
Post's Old Streets, n. |P7. 174: 71-72]
Copsey, Copsie Street. Filled In 1793 (M. C. C,
MS., X: 296, 324). Name changed to State Street
1793.—ZiiW., XI: g. Shown on Pl. 64, Vol. I.
Corlaer's Street. Ordered made bet. Cherry
and Grand Sts. 1807 (M. C. C, MS., XVII; 55); to
run to the centre of Water St. 1808.—Ibid., XVIII:
124-6. Sometimes known as Crown Point Street.
Shown on Pl. 99, Vol. III. [PT. 175: 264-265]
Cornelia Street. Former name of West Twelfth
Street, bet. Greenwich Ave. and Hudson St.; closed
bet. Hudson St. and tbe North River.-Post's Old
Streets, II. Shown on Pl. 99, Vol. III.
[PL 175: 615-625]
Cortlandt Alley. [PT. 175:172-196]
Cortlandt Street. Laid out from Broadway to
Hudson River and accepted 1733 {M. C. C, IV:
180-2); regulated 1784,-71/. C. C. (MS.), VIII: 84.
Shown in Century Mag. (1913), LXXXVI:699;
drawing by C. Burton, Bourne Series ofN. Y. Views.
Shown on Pl. 30, VoL I. [PL 174: 59-63]
Cottage Place. Former name of East Third Street,
bet. Aves. B and C—Post's Old Streets, 12.
[PL 175:3o6\
Cottage Place. See Hancock Street. Shown on
Pl. 70, Vol. I. [Pl. 175: 537]
997
:e, bet.
Cottage Row. Formerly p. o. Fourth Av<
18th and 19th Sts.—Post's Old Streets, 12.
Cozine Street. Former name of Grove Street.—
Post's Old Streets, 12. Ceded to Corporarion by
William W. Gilbert et ux. i8og.—71/. C. C. {MS.),
XXI:?!.
Crabapple Street. Former name of Pike Street.—
Post's Old Streets, 12. [Pl. 174: 248—PL 175: 2S3]
Crosby Street. Laid out prior to 1797 (PI. 64,
VoL I); extended to Bleecker St. 1809.—Jl/. C. C.
(MS.), XVIII; 483-4; XX; 393- [PL I75- 233-532]
Cross Street. Laid out prior to 1797 (?'■ 64, Vol.
I); extended 1806 (M. C. C, MS., XVI; 70); opened
1808 (ibid., XVIII: 449); further to Magazine (Peari)
St. 1809 (ibid., XX: 99); name changed to Park
Street 1854.—Pro. Bds. Aid. and Councilmen, XXII:
315-
Croton Street. [PL 180: 2121]
Crown Street. Laid out prior to 1695 (PI. 23-a,
Vol, I); regulated 1771 (Tl/. C, C, VII; 288, 291-2);
surveyed 1790 (71/. C. C, MS., X: 79-82); name
changed to Liberty Street 1794-—Ibid., XI: 118.
Crown Point, Road to. Former name of Grand
Street.—Post's Old Streets, 12; see Pl. 41, Vol. I.
Crown Point Street. Former name of Corlaer's
Street; also of Water Street, bet. Montgomery St.
and the East River.—Post's Old Streets. 13.
Custom House Street. Former name of Pearl
Street, bet. Whitehall St. and Hanover Sq., the
old Custom House being at the cor. of Moore St,
See iVf. C. C, IV: 403 (1737). [Pl. 174: 10-30]
Cuyler's Alley. Formerly Mesier's Alley (q. v.).
David Street. Former name of Bleecker Street,
bet. Broadway and Hancock St. See PL 70, Vol. 1.
[Pl. 175: 536-532.] Former name of Clarkson Street,
bet. Varick and Hudson Sts.—Post's Old Streets, 13.
[PT. 175: 582]
Decatur Place. Former name of p. o. Seventh
Street, bet. First Ave. and Avenue A.—Post's Old
Streets, 13. _ [PL 175:435]
Delancey Street. Laid 1
on PI. 64, Vol. I.
[PL 175; 319-425I
;. side of Bleecker St„ bet.
!.—City Directory, 1842-3;
[PL 175:525]
[PL 176:1297-1299]'
Laid out, but not named,
'ol. I); surveyed 1789.^
[PL 174: 37-39]
prior to 1797 (Pl.
' 802 (M. C. C,
M. C. C. (MS.), IX: 80. Shown
Depau Row. Formerl;
Thompson and Sullivan 1
cf. Post's Old Streets, 13.
Depew Place.
De Peyster Street.
prior to 1755 (PI. 34, VoL
M. C. C. (MS.). IX: 311, 315-
Desbrosses Street. Laid 01
64, Vol. I); ceded by Trinity Ch
MS., XIII: 413); again in 1808 (ibid.. XVIII; 37-9);
and again in 1813 (ibid., XXVII: 143); regulated
from Sullivan to Varick St, 1816.—Ibid., XXX:
347, 378. [PL 175- 324-335]
Dey Street. Levelled and paved 1749 (M. C. C,
V:26s); regulated and opened 1750 (ibid., V; 290-
i); regulated to the Hudson River 1784 (M. C. C,
MS., VIII: 131, 202-3); regulated i7go.—Ibid., IX:
f3S. Variants of name: Dies, Dyes, Dyers St.—
ost's Old Streets, 15, Sometimes known as Batteau
Street. Shown on PL 41, Vol. I. [PL 174: 80-82]
Dirty Lane. See Slyck Steegh. Shown on C. PL 82,
Voi. II.
Ditch, or the Common Ditch. See Broad Street.
Shown on C. Pl, 82, Vol. II.
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