John Street and Buildings on East Side Broadway

Buildings on the east side Broadway (north is to the left), between Fulton Street (to the left, number 210 Broadway on the corner) and Maiden Lane (number 174 Broadway, Howard Hotel, on the corner), with John Street in between. Illustration copyrighted 1848, published in the Jones & Newman's Pictorial Directory of New York. Source: New York Public Library.

The building at 196 Broadway housed the J.W. & C. Southack, cabinet furniture. The building at 192 Broadway, northeast corner of John Street, housed Chring, Druggist, replaced by the Atlantic Bank by 1857 or before. Corbin Building was completed on this site in 1889. The two-story building at 182-186 housed Dr. Christie's Galvanism (by 1852 or before, number 186 housed the Mercantile Bank, replaced by Chatham Bank by 1857 or before).