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View of William Street, looking up from Frankfort St, 1859
Philip White must have walked William Street countless numbers of times. It lay a mere block west of his drugstore located at the corner of Frankfort and Gold Streets. Read More
Franklin Market, 1820
Franklin Market was one of the many city-run markets. In operation from the late eighteenth-century, it received its official license in 1820. The market was best known for its butcher stalls whose owners typically wore high hats and long tailed… Read More
The Kolch or Kalch-Hook Pond, as it was in Olden Times
Collect Pond (called Kalchhook by the Dutch)was initially a spring-fed pond covering about seventy acres fringed by marshland created by its many outlets and surrounded by wooded hills. According to many, “there was no more beautiful spot on the… Read More
Old Cottage Houses in Frankfort Street opposite Gold St. 1859
In 1847, Philip White established his drugstore on the corner Frankfort and Gold Streets, and maintained it in that location until his death in 1891. This might well have been the view he had of Frankfort Street looking out of the front window of… Read More
St. Philip's Church, Centre Street
St. Philip's Episcopal Church was the tenth parish of Trinity Church, the place of worship of many of New York's white elite families. After repeated demands by its black parishioners, Trinity finally agreed in 1818 to the establishment of a… Read More