Temporary stores and offices were erecting, and even on the ensuing day (Sunday) carts were in motion, and the saw and hammer busily at work.

Within a few days thereafter the custom house, the post office, the banks, the insurance offices and the printers of newspapers located themselves in the village or in the upper part of Broadway, where they were free from the impending danger; and these places almost instantaneously became the seat of the immense business usually carried on in the great metropolis." Bank Street got its name in this way, the city banks transferring their business thither literally overnight, ready to do business in the morning.
Miss Euphemia M.Olcott in her delightful recollections of the past in New York, gives us some charming snapshots of a still later Greenwich as she got them from her mother who was born in 1819.
"She often visited in Greenwich Village, both at her grandfather's and at the house of Mr.Abraham Van Nest, which had been built and originally occupied by Sir.

Peter Warren.

But she never thought of going _so far_ for less than a week! [She lived at Fulton and Nassau streets.] There was a city conveyance for part of the way, and then the old Greenwich stage enabled them to complete the long journey.
This ran several times a day, and when my mother committed her hymn: _"'Hasten, sinner, to be wise, Ere this evening's stage be run'_ she told us that for some years it never occurred to her that it could mean anything in the world but the Greenwich stage." In further quoting her mother, she tells of Sir.

Peter's house itself--then Mr.Van Nest's--as a square frame residence, with gardens both of flowers and vegetables, stables and numbers of cows, chickens, pigeons and peacocks.