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William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, was a British Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768. Historians call him "Chatham" o...

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The library I work in used to be the village rectory, built in the 18th century. I've been doing some digging into local history books to try and put together a little display of the building's history. I've learned some cool stuff—including that one of the more eccentric Victorian rectors built a massive observatory extension to the rectory (sadly demolished when it became the library) and that Charles Darwin's children used to visit for Sunday school lessons.

(I also learned that the rector who commissioned the building has a name that sounds ridiculously similar to Lord Farquad, which is just plain funny.) But one story I found out today broke my heart. It's about a nine-year-old First Nations boy who died of smallpox in a tiny village in Kent, at least 3000 miles away from his homeland, as the slave of William Pitt the Elder. This is the story of John Panis.

Let me make it very clear: this boy was not named John Panis. We do not know his true name, or how it was stolen from him, or even for certain how he came to be in this tiny corner of England. While his gravestone describes him as "of the Tribe of Panis", "Panis" is not a Native American or First Nations term. It was an 18th-century French term used to describe slaves of First Nations descent in the colony of Canada, then part of New France. Most "Panis" were from the Pawnee Nation, but we don't know for sure that John was Pawnee. What we do know is that it is nearly certain that nine-year-old John was a slave, and it is nearly certain that William Pitt was his enslaver.

To be given a tombstone was a rarity in 18th-century villager life: only the wealthy could afford one. Only 10 grave markers of the 600 or so 18th-century burials recorded in the churchyard survive. So it's significant that, firstly, nine-year-old John had one, and, secondly, that it survived to this day. The wealthiest 18th-century local at the time? William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham.

Pitt supported the American position in the run-up to the American War of Independence. The text I read today suggested that little John was gifted to Pitt by an American to thank him for this, as a "playmate" or "pageboy" for his young children. But with no surviving contemporary records, we simply don't know how he came to be here.

Again, John was not a "playmate" or a "pageboy". He was nine years old. He was a child slave. His name was not John. We do not know his original tribe, name, or language.

I spent my lunch hour today thinking about John, sold into slavery at such a young age, torn from his family, and stripped of his name, language, and people. Sent across an ocean simply to entertain white children. Contracting smallpox, suffering, and dying in agony in a small village in Kent, without the comfort of a mother or father. He was likely put to rest by the very rector who commissioned the building I now work in. I went to find him in the churchyard. His resting place is only a few metres from the library.

I wonder if he is the ghost I sometimes speak to.

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Where laws end, tyranny begins.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

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Fore Edge Friday

Here are some nonpareil bindings, edges, and endpapers for some nonpareil (e.g., unparalleled) Historical Sketches of Statesmen Who Flourished in the Time of George III by Henry, Lord Brougham, the second edition printed in three volumes in London by William Clowes and Sons for Charles Knight & Co., 1839-43. The volumes are half-bound in gold-stamped and blind-tooled calf skin with cover papers, edges, and endpapers marbled in what the University of Washington’s site on Patterned Papers identifies as a Nonpareil pattern. We have described the process for making this pattern in a previous post.

The author, Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1777-1868), was a prolific writer on science, philosophy, and history, and published this set after his stint as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1830-34). The volumes are dedicated to his wife Mary Anne Eden, 1st Baroness Brougham and Vaux (1785–1865). 

The set is replete with with engravings of its subjects and each volume bears a frontispiece of a statesman. Shown here are the frontispiece portraits of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (volume 1) engraved by William Holl the Younger after an engraving by Edward Fisher from a painting by Richard Brompton, and George Washington (volume 2) engraved by William Humphrys after a painting by Gilbert Stuart. Despite the prominence of Washington’s portrait as the frontispiece to volume 2, Brougham only spends five pages on him. Nevertheless, he calls Washington “the greatest man of our own or of any age. . . . It will be the duty of the Historian and the Sage in all ages to let no occasion pass of commemorating this illustrious man; and until time shall be no more will a test of the progress which our race has made in wisdom and in virtue be derived from the veneration paid to the immortal name of Washington!”

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On the Seventh Anniversary of oath taking as PM of the country!

In 2014 Parliamentary elections, masses preferred a BJP led NDA, over Congress led UPA. Thus NDA won the elections with a majority of seats. BJP selected Mr. Narendra Modi as it’s leader in Lok Sabha and also their prime ministerial candidate. Other alliance partners, in NDA, too endorsed the decision of BJP and thus paved the way for Mr. Modi to get an elevation from being the Chief Minister of Gujarat, to be the Prime Minister of India. He took oath on 26th May 2014, to be the 15th Prime Minister of the country.

Due to his style of functioning, the decisions taken and the agenda which the BJP decided to pursue and implement in the country, Mr. Modi has become a very controversial personality in the political arena, to such an extent, that, the society, and more particularly, the intelligentsia of the country, has got sharply polarised. The media too couldn’t escape this polarisation.

The polarisation is not restricted against the party, Prime Minister or his government for their policies and decisions, or to the extent of ‘for or against’ but has gone far too ahead against a particular person in particular, who happens to be Mr. Narendra Modi, culminating into strong ‘Likes and Dislikes’, ‘Love and Hatred’, ‘Worshiping and Condemnation’, thus placing the person in ‘Higher pedestals or Utter Disdain’ and many categorising him as ‘the god or the demon’.

Those who like him, they see nothing wrong in him and those who hate him, see in him nothing worthwhile, and call his fans as ANDH BHAKTS, whereas the fans call themselves as NATIONALISTS, terming anti-Modi sections to the extent of calling them as ANTI-NATIONALS. The media, forgetting its roles and responsibilities, is also behaving irrational, one section calling the other names, as GODI MEDIA (media sitting in government’s lap or working for the government) or BIASED MEDIA playing into the hands of some vested interests or disgruntled elements. It has suffered its credibility in this setup. What his acts, works or decisions to the haters look to be the blunders, they are, for his worshipers, the classic acts or master strokes to safeguard the best interests of the country, as for them he can’t ever commit any mistakes or any errors of judgement.

Here I would like to add with a bit of caution that this worshiping is not limited to Mr. Modi or BJP only, it is rather spread everywhere, that is what I realised in the recent state assembly elections. In the recent Facebook post, when a friend questioned the decision of Kerala CM dropping one very popular and performing minister, daggers were drawn out by his admirers, who started getting aggressive, calling names, to the ones, who dared question, calling them names, terming them as ‘Blind describing the elephant’ or ‘a part of systematic misinformation campaign’ to defame the Chief Minister. They conveniently forgot, that for speaking against Mr. Modi, they were being labelled the same way and now for defending a chief Minister, they too can be labelled as ‘BHAKTS’

The saddest part is that, this polarisation has brought an animosity amongst the masses, thus affecting their personal relationships. The orientation of the people’s , likes and dislikes, for and against each other, in general, have got jaundiced, and now is based on their respective opinions about Mr. Modi.

The other impact of this polarisation is that the SANE VOICES for CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM OR OPINION have been lost in the din now created, since either such voices will be labelled as ANTI NATIONAL or as A VOICE OF ANDH BHAKT. In the present scenario there is no other scope left.

Now such a situation has emerged, that either you are a friend or an enemy, like the quote of Ta Niel Rochel “If you are not my friend, then you are my enemy and if you are not my enemy then i don't know you.”

I read some beautiful Quotes from Jocelyn Soriano's blog “I Take off the Mask!” I felt like sharing here:

“Life is so much more than dividing people between being one’s friends and enemies!”

“Worship not a person for a good deed he has done for you.  Be grateful but don’t expect him to be perfect.On the other hand, curse not a person for a wrong he has done to hurt you.  He may not be perfect, but he still carries the imprint of God’s goodness upon his soul!”

Why in the pursuit of our personal liking and disliking, we have come this far that, we have put our personal relationships at a stake. I firmly believe such worship or hatred, likes or dislike are not that worth, to barter them with our personal friendships or relationships.

The masses of the country, may be in majority, are poor or illiterate and may not be seen as intelligent, but time and again, they have proved that they are wise and mature enough, to rise to the occasion, to bring a change of governments. They have, with their secret weapon, overthrown those who thought themselves to be the mightiest and taken the voters for granted. That weapon was given to them by the creator of Indian Constitution, Baba Saheb, who ensured that all the voters are equal irrespective of their backgrounds. It is another thing, that the politicians failed them, time and again, whom they trusted, and handed over the power to govern the country. But none can take them for a ride for long, in the name of religion, region, caste, colour or creed or using some sort of propaganda or try to hijack by playing with their emotions or sentiments through some jingoism.

Here I am reminded of a statement by Samuel Johnson, an English writer. Seeing the false use of the term "patriotism" by William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (the patriot minister) and his supporters, he said "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel." Johnson opposed "self-professed patriots" in general. So one has to be cautious of not getting trapped in the hype of patriotism, created to be used or exploited as a political tool and no political party can take it for granted to raise a bogey of it. Masses are smart enough to understand the design.

I am also reminded of what Abraham Lincoln said “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”

The masses will ultimately be the decision makers. Neither side can play with their judgment for too long. They can’t be carried away or get swayed for too long by any faction.

Only history will tell how it assessed Mr. Modi, as a person and as an administrator. Only time will tell, in which bracket, the history has kept him, whether in the company of liberals like Pt. Nehru and Mr. Vajpayee or as a hard liner tough administrator like Mrs Gandhi or altogether in a different category.

Today, when he has completed seven years in the office, and Mr. Modi enters eighth year in the office, I leave it to the individuals to make their own opinions, based on their rational judgements, about him and his government.

Let us join together to pray for the sake of our country and its citizens, for the stability in the country, healthy growth of democracy and progress in democratic institutions!

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Hester Pitt, Countess of Chatham (née Grenville; 8 November 1720 – 9 April 1803) was the wife of William Pitt (the Elder), 1st Earl of Chatham, who was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768.

The sister of George Grenville, who was Prime Minister from 1763 to 1765, she was also the mother of Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger and a niece of the noted Whig politician Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, who had served as her husband's mentor.

Chatham and Elizabeth Grenville, her sister-in-law, are the only two women in British history to have been both the wife of a Prime Minister and the mother of a Prime Minister.

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The Patriotick Barber of New York, or “The Captain in the Suds”,  February 14, 1775                                 

In this satire, issued in London the year before the outbreak of the American Revolution, Captain John Crozer, commander of a British ship, has been recognized in the barbershop of Jacob Vredenburgh, a New York Son of Liberty who refuses to finish shaving him.

The subject demonstrates how New Yorkers refused to cooperate with British troops garrisoned in the city from the autumn of 1774. When the story reached England it inspired this print. The following verse is printed below the image: "Then Patriot grand, maintain thy Stand,/ And whilst thou sav'st Americ's Land,/ Preserve the Golden Rule;--/ Forbid the Captains there to roam,/ Half shave them first; then send 'em home,/ Objects of ridicule." Some of the figures are caricatured, others represented more realistically. The names of Sons of Liberty are inscribed on wig boxes throughout the composition. Famous defenders of civil liberties, William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham, and Charles, 1st Earl Camden are portrayed in prints that hang on the back wall.

Attributed to Philip Dawe  British    

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#Pittsburgh was named after William Pitt, the Earl of Chatham but did you know that he was the Prime Minister of Great Britain – twice!?

Did you ever wonder how the streets of our City got their name? What’s a ‘Bigelow’? Who was Mr. Beltzhoover?

Was Oakland named after the “land of oaks” or was that someone’s last name (hint – it was German). Is it true that Grant Street was not named after Ulysses S. Grant?

In this episode of the #PittsburghOddcast, we dive deep into the meaning behind the names of ‘Diondega’, I mean, Pittsburgh.

The local names were never meant to just be arbitrary sounds, devoid of any meaning. Each one tells us a record of the past and a story that was not meant to be forgotten.

From Allentown to Zelienople and everything in between, we are bringing you the 1st in an ongoing series on the origin of Pittsburgh names.

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William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham - Wikipedia

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AN EXHAUSTIVE RANKING OF EACH PRIME MINISTER OF OUR TIME, ON THE GROUNDS OF HIS BEARING AND PERSONAGE:

21. William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne 20. The Right Honourable George Canning 19. Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford 18. The Right Honourable George Grenville 17. William Pitt, “the Elder”, 1st Earl of Chatham 16. The Right Honourable Henry Pelham 15. The Right Honourable Spencer Perceval 14. Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme 13. Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington 12. Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon 11. William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire 10. John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute  9. Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool  8. William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland 7. William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville 6. The Right Honourable  William Pitt, “the Younger” 5. Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham 4. Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton 3. Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 2. Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth 1. Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford

Dispute at your Leisure, and your Peril.

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United Kingdom House of Lords Speeches Collection | Various | *Non-fiction, History, Political Science | Audiobook full unabridged | English | 1/2 Content of the video and Sections beginning time (clickable) - Chapters of the audiobook: please see First comments under this video. This collection comprises recordings of seven historic speeches given to the UK House of Lords between 1641 and 1945. Readings are of speeches origninally given by the 1st Earl of Strafford (Thomas Wentworth), the 1st Earl of Chatham (William Pitt the Elder), the 6th Baron Byron (the poet Lord Byron), the 1st Duke of Wellington (Arthur Wellesley), the 3rd Earl of Lucan (George Lord Bingham) and the 3rd Earl Russell (the philosopher Bertrand Russell). (Summary by Carl Manchester) This is a Librivox recording. If you want to volunteer please visit https://librivox.org/ by Priceless Audiobooks

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BETWEEN THE BRIDGES

A few years ago I did a feature on Manhattan between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges (I call it BEMBO), but as always, there’s more to see and there are details I missed. This time of year I also begin to scout areas that would make decent Forgotten NY tours in the spring and summer. BEMBO is a curious area, full of crannies and nooks of interest. Had I been writing Forgotten New York in the 1960s, there would have been a lot more to talk about, as maybe half of this neighborhood has been razed to build housing projects, schools, and the NYPD headquarters. I was able to show some of these lost streets in a FNY post in January 2019. 

Getting off the F train at East Broadway at Canal (Straus Square) I meandered west. I discussed the Mesivtha Tiferes Jerusalem Yeshiva just the other day, so I won’t repeat myself here; it’s a handsome building in buff and brown brick, and has a venerable history. 

East Broadway, looking west, looking toward the Manhattan Bridge overpass, and behind it, the Municipal Building and Woolworth Building, which from this vantage look like twin spires of the same building. In the left background is #4 World Trade Center and on the right, of course, is #1 World Trade Center. In the foreground left is the relatively new 109 East Broadway, the site of a devastating fire in 2010. The building exhibits the latest trend in residential architecture, featuring a boxy design with colored metal panels and flat windows. Why do so many new apartment buildings looks like this? They’re the cheapest to build. 

In FNY’s Comments section, and remarks from friends on facebook, twitter and in person, many dismiss new architecture outright, saying nothing built today matches the past. I judge each building on its merits, and part of me is happy to live in a dynamic city that can accommodate new designs. I like a city that has both a Jenga tower and a St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

Until the beginning of the 20th Century, East Broadway was known as Chatham Street, for William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) who was the English Prime Minister during the time the colonies were agitating for independence, but before the Revolutionary War. He opposed the Stamp Act, but also opposed outright independence, but promoted compromise that ultimately proved untenable. Many USA locales are named for him including Pittsfield, MA and Pittsburgh, PA, as well as Chatham Square, East Broadway at the Bowery.

No good way to get a picture of the Knickerbocker Post Office, 128 East Broadway near Pitt Street because of … all the mail trucks parked in front of it. 

Washington Irving (1783-1859), who met his namesake George Washington while a young boy, was popular both in the States and in Europe for his essays and fiction, and was the creator of Ichabod Crane, Rip van Winkle, and the tricornered Father Knickerbocker, NYC’s mascot. “Knickerbocker,” which is fun to say, refers to NYC’s early Dutch settlers and appears frequently in NYC lore, including its NBA basketball team.

The Sung Tak Buddhist Association at 13 Pike Street was once the Pike Street Synagogue, a Classic Revival building from 1903 that housed the Congregation Sons of Israel Kalwarie, Poland. Entertainer Eddie Cantor was bar mitzvahed here in 1905. The tripartite façade, which has an arched portico reached by twin lateral staircases, reflects Romanesque and classical features.

Looking north on Pike Street, which was named for explorer Zebulon Pike, soldier and explorer (1779-1813) of Pike’s Peak fame. Along with Allen Street, which begins a block north, the road was widened several decades ago and now sports a modern bicycle path. You can walk in a straight line all the way from here to the Harlem River, as Pike becomes Allen and Allen becomes 1st Avenue.

Turning left on Market Street, I encountered one of the oldest churches in Manhattan at Henry Street, the old Market Street Reformed Church, which was built in 1819. The windows are made up of multiple panels—35 over 35 over 35. This is now the First Chinese Presbyterian Church, which shared the building with the Sea and Land Church until 1972.

The brick and stone Georgian-Gothic church was constructed two centuries ago as the Market Street reformed Church on land owned by Henry Rutgers, and after changing congregations a few times over the years, it’s now the First Chinese Presbyterian Church. It’s in the top five oldest extant church buildings in New York City, the oldest being St. Paul’s Chapel on Broadway and Vesey St.

Every time I’m in the area, I check on Mechanics Alley, which runs on the west side of the Manhattan Bridge anchorage for 2 blocks between Madison and Henry Streets. Though it has obtained a more narrow sense, the word “mechanic” originally meant an artisan, builder or craftsman, not necessarily a machinist. No property fronts on the narrow lane, but trucks nonetheless employ it despite its narrowness to avoid heavier traffic on streets like Market.

I did a pretty comprehensive post on Mechanics Alley and its history a few years ago in FNY. 

Market Street contains a number of historic and classic buildings along its short stretch between East Broadway and South Street. Here’s #40 market on the corner of Madison, which still has its original entrance woodwork as well as the street identification brownstone plaques. The Market Street side looks as if it has had some ad hoc repairs done sometime in the past.

375 Pearl Street, otherwise known as the Verizon Building, a.k.a. the Intergate Center, looms at the west end of Monroe Street. Many call it the ugliest building in Manhattan, though I’ve seen far worse. In 2016 it was renovated and received a new bank of windows. 

This shabby brick building at 51 Market St. was constructed in 1824 by merchant William Clark. Its original elegant doorway, with Ionic columns, a fanlight and ornamentation, has survived nearly two centuries. A close look at the basement windows shows them to be surrounded with brownstone work with squiggly lines, known in the architecture world as “Gibbs surrounds.” A fourth floor, which studiously copied the original three, was added after the Civil War. The stoop and railings, however, are not original as they were replaced in 2010. The door is festooned with graffiti, and though the house has Landmark status, its condition appears deteriorated.

Amid the Chinese-language signs on Market and Madison, at the edge of Chinatown, is this neon sign for a long-gone liquor store. 

At #47 Market Street is a venerable brick building that conveniently lists the date of construction, 1886, at the roofline.

Faces peer out from the front of this Madison Street apartment. Many of these buildings, and those on paralleling Monroe and Henry Streets, were built in the 1880s, when such embellishments were found on just about every building, commercial or residential. 

The undulating exterior of #8 Spruce Street, officially New York By Gehry, named for architect Frank Gehry, is the architect’s signature NYC building. Like it or not, it’s instantly recognizable from all over lower Manhattan. After its completion in 2011, it was NYC’s tallest residential building for a couple of years, but has since been surpassed by buildings like 432 Park. 

The Roman Catholic parish of St. Joseph (“San Giuseppe”) was established by the Missionaries of St. Charles, an order of priests and brothers founded by Blessed John Baptist Scalabrini in 1887 to serve the needs of Italian immigrants. The present church was designed by Matthew W. Del Gaudio and opened in 1924. Shortly after the founding of the parish, the Scalabrinians were joined by the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, who helped open St. Joseph School in 1926.

Today, St. Joseph Church is a national parish designated as an Italian and Chinese parish. The parish continues the mission of the Church of St. Joachim, located at 26 Roosevelt Street until the 1960s, which was founded by the Missionaries of St. Charles who arrived in New York City in 1889. Immediately after, Mother Cabrini was welcomed by the same church as she arrived in the United States. American Guild of Organists, NYC Chapter

Speaking of the Scalabrinians, in January 2018 I visited their former bailiwick, St. Charles Seminary in Todt Hill, Staten Island, which had been the estate of architect Ernest Flagg. 

Catherine Street classics, near Madison Street.

Madison and Oliver Streets. Al Smith (1873-1944), a four-time NYS governor and failed presidential candidate, was born on Oliver, a still-existing street between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, neither of which had opened when he was born. He was one of NYC’s most popular politicians in history.

On a walk up the Lower East Side in January 2013, I encountered an anachronistic building that I either hadn’t seen or hadn’t noticed before, on Madison Street a few doors away from St. James Place. It’s a tiny two-story dormered building — however, it’s not too small that it doesn’t have two separate doors and two separate house numbers, 47 and 49. I’ve always been curious about anachronisms and survivors, being something of an anachronism myself, so I looked it up. Expecting a difficult or fruitless search, I found something by the historian David Freeland, who rote about it in 2009 in the now-defunct  New York Press:

For years the house has been something of a mystery, but one glimpse into its colorful history is revealed through a small advertisement from the Spirit of the Times newspaper, as reprinted in the Boston Herald of March 2, 1853: “Rat Killing, and other sports, every Monday evening. A good supply of rats kept constantly on hand for gentlemen wishing to try their dogs, with the use of the pit gratis, at J. Marriott’s Sportsman’s Hall, 49 Madison Street.”

Rat baiting, setting rats against rats, or dogs against rats, was a popular betting sport in the 19th Century in the days before the ASPCA. The building where another former rat baiting establishment was run by Kit Burns, the Captain Joseph Rose House, still stands at 273 Water Street in the Seaport area.

Freeland goes on:

By the late 1850s, the house at 49 Madison Street had been taken over by English-born Harry Jennings, who ran it as a combination saloon and rat-fighting pit until his conviction on a robbery charge sent him to prison in Massachusetts. But later, after returning to New York, Jennings settled into a kind of respectability, winning fame as a dog trainer and, eventually, the city’s leading rat exterminator. By the time of his death, in 1891, Jennings’ clients included Delmonico’s Restaurant and such luxury hotels as Gilsey House and the original Plaza.

Apparently, there’s a comeback in everybody.

The dark shadows of January intrude on the intersection of James and Madison Streets, one of the few intersections in NYC where both street names make up a US President’s first and second name. I’m sure it wasn’t planned that way, though.

We can see St. James Church, the second oldest building associated with the Roman Catholic Church in NYC. (Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Mott and Prince Streets, built in 1810, precedes it.) The fieldstone, Doric-columned Greek Revival building was begun in 1835 and completed in 1837; and though it is thought to be a design of famed architect Minard Lefever, there is no evidence to support the claim. A domed cupola above the sanctuary was removed decades ago. This was the boyhood parish of Al Smith, and New Bowery, which connects Pearl Street and Chatham Square, was renamed for it in 1947.

The massive Chatham Green development, located along St. James Place between Madison Street and Chatham Square, opened in 1960, was one of the projects that eliminated much of the ancient street grid in lower Manhattan, as well as the last remnants of the Five Points slum. But on those streets were located dark, noisome and cold tenements, and Chatham Green was constructed by the City in an effort to make middle-income peoples’ lives better. As we know, that effort has had mixed results. 

Chatham Green went condo several years ago, with hefty prices, somewhat belying its original purposes.

This triangular-shaped building comes to a point at St. James Place and Madison Street. As I have noted, St. lames Place, laid out in the mid-1850s, was originally called New Bowery, but the designation must have been fluid at one time, as the chiseled street sign on the building simply has “Bowery.”

One Police  Plaza, along Madison Street and Park Row (both closed to regular traffic) opened in 1973, is the headquarters of the NY Police Department; it took over from the old domed HQ, now a condo conversion at Centre and Broome Streets. It was designed by Gruzen and Partners in a Brutalist style and sits near the assorted city and state court buildings at Foley Square.

The NYC Municipal Building was constructed  in 1914 from plans by McKim, Mead & White; it now houses only a fraction of the city offices that oversee the functioning of the metropolis. Particularly attractive is the row of freestanding columns, the extensive sculpture work and the lofty colonnaded tower topped by Adolph Weinman’s 25-fot high gilt statue of Civic Fame.

I have happy memories of the building since on October 23, 2006 I spent a half hour with Brian Lehrer on WNYC-radio discussing Forgotten NY the Book, and temporarily, my Amazon sales jumped into the 500s (by contrast, 12 years later, I’m in the 300,000s usually).

The sculptures on the north arch include allegorical representations of Progress, Civic Duty, Guidance, Executive Power, Civic Pride and Prudence. Between the windows on the second floor are symbols of various city departments. Note the collection of plaques, among which is the “triple X” emblem of Amsterdam, Holland. Chambers Street once passed through the building and once went all the way to Chatham Square but the NYC Police Dept complex was built over its path in the 1960s.  —Gerard Wolfe

The fortress-like, business-themed Murray Bergtraum High School was built at Madison Street and Robert F. Wagner Senior Place, adjacent to Brooklyn Bridge off-ramps, in 1976. It’s named for a former president of the NYC Board of Ed., between 1969 and 1971.  Noted alumni include entertainers John Leguizamo and Damon Wayans.

Rose Street, once chockablock with tenements, is a curved street running under the Brooklyn Bridge connecting Gold and Madison Streets. It was named for late 18th-early 19th Century merchant and distiller Captain Joseph Rose, whose house still stands nearby on Water Street. I discussed Rose Street at length on this FNY page. 

Though I continued into the Seaport area, it’s a busy weekend and I’ll wrap things up for now.

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Where laws end, tyranny begins.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, also known as William Pitt the Elder, British Prime Minister

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There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Speech in the House of Lords (March 2, 1770)

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