Park Row, Park Theatre

Original title: Park Theatre & Part of Park Row. 1831. Lithograph for D.T. Valentine's Manual, 1855, by George Hayward.

Illustration shows the old Park Row, looking toward St. Paul Chapel. In the 18th century, it was the post road to Boston, running though the Commons.

City Hall Park is on the right. Park Theatre is on the left. It opened in 1798 as the New Theatre and it burned down in 1848. In the following decades, several newspapers and publishers moved to Park Row.