Dey Street

It originally ran to West Street, but the western reaches were demolished to make way for the World Trade Center in the late 1960s.

The Tyger was the ship used by the Dutch captain Adriaen Block during his 1613 voyage to explore the East Coast of North America and the present day Hudson River.

In November, an accidental fire broke out; the Tyger rapidly burned to the waterline,[1] and the charred hull was beached.

In 1916, workmen discovered the prow and keel of Tyger while excavating an extension for the New York City Subway's BMT Broadway Line.

[2] In 1625, the area was part of thirty-three acres set aside to grow food for the Dutch West India Company colony.

The Church Farm just west of St. Paul's Chapel was also the site of the city's red-light district, known as "The Holy Ground".

[3] Dey also owned about five and a half acres just south of the Church lands, stretching from Broadway to the Hudson river, where he established a mill and ferry.

In 1750, Dirck Teunis purchased a small slip of adjoining land from Trinity Church to accommodate the required width for Partition Street,[9] where he then built a wharf.

In 1872, a property at the northwest corner of Broadway and Dey Street was owned by the former French emperor, Napoleon III, through his trusted dentist, Thomas W.

[11] Starting in 1877, a time ball was dropped from the top of the building at exactly noon, triggered by a telegraph from the National Observatory in Washington, D.C.

[12] The building at 15 Dey (195 Broadway) was acquired by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and demolition began in stages in 1912.

[19] Initially, a ledge attached to the second floor of an existing building with a platform cantilevered out over the sidewalk served as a station.

Hudson Terminal was a rapid transit station and office-tower complex in the Radio Row neighborhood of Lower Manhattan.

The Port Authority began acquiring property at the World Trade Center site in March 1965, and demolition work began a year later, clearing thirteen square blocks in Radio Row, thus further reducing Dey Street.