4. Broad Street Bridge

In The History of the City of New York, author David T. Valentine makes mention of a former bridge on Broad Street, stating that:

The present STONE STREET, as has been before mentioned, was the line of the first road laid out from the fort to the ferry. The early occupants of that part of the road between the present Whitehall and Broad streets, were the following, their property being generally described as on “the road:” Adam Rolantsen, one hundred feet front;Arent, the smith ; Philip Geraerdy, a trader ; Oloff Stevenson Van Cortland, commissary; Harman Meyndertsen JIsaac De Foreest, brewer; Gysbert Opdyck, commissary; Pieter Cornelisen. From the character of these residents, it is to be inferred that this was one of the best streets of the town. Crossing the inlet, at the present Broad street, by a bridge, the part of the road between the latter street and the present Hanover square, was vacant on the southside, until the erection of the City Tavern, in 1642.