Bernard Michael was born at 9 Peck Slip, where his father Solomon had a tailoring shop.
Peck Slip was the site of the ferry to Brooklyn before the Brooklyn Bridge opened
in 1883. Today Peck Slip is adjacent to the South Street Seaport and Fulton Fish
Market.
9 Peck Slip was on the east side of the street between Pearl and Water
Streets. Today it appears to be the site of a post office, the Peck Slip Station
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Peck Slip 1850 (from the New York Public Library Digital
Gallery
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org; many more images available--search for
Peck Slip) |
1852-4 map (from the New York Public Library Digital Gallery) |
1857-62 map showing location of 9 Peck Slip (from the New
York Public Library Digital Gallery) |
Numbers (from right) 11-5 Peck Slip; 9 Peck Slip second house from right
(from the New York Public Library Digital Gallery) |
 Numbers
(from right) 15-1 Peck Slip (from the New York Public Library
Digital Gallery) |
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South Street, New York
ca. 1875 |
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Peck Slip, 1881
Watercolor on paper, 20 x 14 in.
Museum of the City of New York, 71.62.2
Bequest of Riesa Friedman
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View from Castle Garden, 1881
Watercolor on paper, 14 x 20 in.
Museum of the City of New York, 71.62.1
Bequest of Riesa Friedman
Hughson Hawley’s early work in New York included
colorful sketches like these scenes of lower Manhattan, depicting popular views of the
Battery and Peck Slip. The view of the Battery is from Castle Garden, which at this
time—prior to the 1892 opening of Ellis Island—functioned as an immigration
station. Hawley’s characters include recent immigrants and a crowd at the Rockaway
Beach ferry. Peck Slip was the site of the first ferry to Brooklyn in the seventeenth
century, and was often selected by artists over the years as a picturesque subject. |
Panorama water front and Brooklyn Bridge from East River / Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
from Early
Films of New York from the library of Congress
This film depicts the East River shoreline and the piers of lower Manhattan starting at
about Pier 5 (the New York Central Pier) opposite Broad
Street, and extending to the Mallory Line steamship piers just south of Fulton Street and
the Brooklyn Bridge. |
 from
http://www.mcny.org/abbott/map.htm
FISH MARKET, SOUTH STREET
Between Beekman Street and Peck Slip
NOVEMBER 26, 1935.
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 SOUTH STREET, NOS. 151-166
Between Peck Slip and Dover Street
APRIL 1, 1937. |
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a modern picture of the building at 257-259 Water street (corner of Peck
Slip). Solomon Michael's tailor shop was at this location between 1855
and 1869. This building was erected in 1873. |
