![]() Rich furniture and ragged furniture, carts, wagons, and drays, ropes, canvas, and straw, packers, porters, and draymen, white, yellow, and black, occupy the streets from east to west, from north to south, on this day.Īll over New York, tenants along with their belongings abandoned their abodes to criss-cross the city in mass migration to fresh dwellings. ![]() On the 1st of May the city of New York has the appearance of sending off a population flying from the plague, or of a town which had surrendered on condition of carrying away all their goods and chattels. Within moments the streets of New York were a jangling amorphous pandemonium.Įnglish author Frances Trollope happened to be in New York City to witness this peculiar spectacle: ![]() At 9:00am, almost as if on cue, thousands of doors on thousands of buildings burst open to vomit humans, furniture, and other sundries out into the bright morning sun. ![]() The ordinarily gentle horse-drawn traffic of the up-and-coming metropolis seemed a bit more dense than usual, and as the morning progressed the avenues and boulevards became increasingly crowded. ![]() It was early in the morning on the 1st of May 1832 in New York City. ![]()
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