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[DOCUMENT NO. VI.]

BOARD  OF
ASSISTANT ALDERMEN,

December 19, 183L

Report of the Committee on Streets, on the sub¬
ject of enlarging Union Place.

B. CRANE, Clerk.
 

The Committee on Streets to whom was referred the
petition of Thomas A. Emmeft and others, to have Union
P'ace enlarged upon the plan shown on a map deposited in
the Street Commissioner's Office, or otherwise,

RESPECTFULLY REPORT,

That by a law of the State passed IlthApril, 1815,
Union Place was appropriated for public purposes. Its
shape is an irregular polygon, embracing the triangle bound¬
ed by the Bowery on the west, Bloomingdale Road on the
east, and Fourteenth-street on the south, together with
that part of the Fourth Avenue where it merges in the
Bloomingdale Road from Fourteenth to Thirteenth streets,
commencing at the " Forks," so called, at Seventeenth-
street, where the Bowery and Bloomingdale Ro..d unite,
and terminating at Thirteenth-street.

In its present form. Union Place presents to the eye a
shapeless and ill-looking place, devoid of symmetry, and is
also of two limited dimensions for any purpose lor which
hereafter it may be not only expedient, but necessary to de-