[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 'LEASANT. i'87 sides these, I do not remember any buildings on Broad-way, except an old academy building just north of the Andre Brook." Amos R. Clark, Esq., states that "About 1835 Mrs. Cornelia Beekman laid out new roads, and sold all the land south of Beekman Avenue, in building lots. At that time there were only twelve houses west of the Croton Aqueduct. Beekman Avenue being in many places four rods wide, it contained no less than three distinct wagon roads, or tracks, from Broadway to the river. At that time, also, and for many years after-wards, there were from three to five sloops sailing to and from Ne,w York every week, from the Upper Dock at the foot of Beekman Avenue. They carried the produce of the farmers from far back in the coun-try, and returned with the various articles then in de-mand. Immense quantities of potatoes, of apples and of hogs were raised for the New York market, and as there were then no railroad facilities, such as are now found on the Harlem and Hudson River lines,