Colaba Causeway

[3] What also added to the urgency to its construction was that, Mountstuart Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay (1819–1827), had already built the first home on Malabar Hill, following which the rich quickly started moving into the centrally placed, Fort) area.

[9] Horse-drawn tram-cars were introduced here,[10] in 1873 by Stearns and Kitteredge, for their offices on the west side of the Causeway, where the Electric House now stands.

[11] The architecture of the area is reminiscent of old Mumbai, fact highlighted by buildings like, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Regal Cinema, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Museum and Cusrow Baug, a Parsi residential colony built in 1934, covering an area of 84,000 square yards, which is home to over 500 families.

Apart from upmarket retail showrooms, and small shops dealing in electronic goods, cosmetics, clothes and music, it has a pavement book stall dating back several decades,[13] besides having numerous small shops and footpath outlets selling everything from artifacts to shawls, carpets and minor antiques to slippers of all kinds, which makes tourists, backpackers and locals from South Mumbai throng the area all through the year.

[16] Today, the Sassoon Docks house one of the largest fish market of Mumbai city[14]

Colaba Causeway construction using timber, view from Colaba island, 1826