Through the centre of the map there is a line indicating Fifth Avenue north to Thirteenth Street.

Here and there is a spot apparently intended to represent a farmhouse, but that is all; for in 1820, though Greenwich Village and Chelsea were, the city proper was far to the south.

Some of the names on the old map are familiar and some are not.
Just above the bending lane that ran along the north side of Washington Square, then the Potter's Field, may be read "Trustees of Sailor's Snug Harbor." The land thus marked extends from what is now Waverly Place to what is now Ninth Street.

In 1790 Captain Robert Richard Randall paid five thousand pounds sterling for twenty-one acres of good farming land.
In 1801 he died, and his will directed that a "Snug Harbor" for old salts be built upon his farm, the produce of which, he believed, would forever furnish his pensioners with vegetables and cereal rations.

Later Randall's trustees leased the farm in building lots and placed "Snug Harbor" in Staten Island.