Just after Paine's death a street was cut through, called Cozine Street.

Names were fleeting affairs in early and fast-growing New York, and the one street from Cozine became Columbia, then Burrows, and last of all Grove, which it remains today.
Here let us make a note of one more indignity which the officially wise and virtuous ones were able to bestow upon their unassumingly wise and virtuous victim.
The Commissioners replanning New York desired to pay Paine's memory a compliment and on opening up the street parallel with Grove, they called it Reason Street, for the "Age of Reason." This was objected to by many bigots (who had never read the book) and some tactful diplomat suggested giving it the French twist--_Raison_ Street.

Already they had the notion that French could cover a multitude of sins.

Even this was too closely suggestive of Tom Paine, "the infidel," so it was shamelessly corrupted to Raisin! Consider the street named originally in honour of the author of the "Age of Reason," eventually called for a dried grape! This too passed, and if you go down there now you will find it called Barrow Street.
On the 8th of June, 1809, Thomas Paine died.
The New York _Advertiser_ said: "With heart-felt sorrow and poignant regret, we are compelled to announce to the world that Thomas Paine is no more.

This distinguished philanthropist, whose life was devoted to the cause of humanity, departed this life yesterday morning; and, if any man's memory deserves a place in the breast of a freeman, it is that of the deceased, for, _"'Take him for all in all, We ne'er shall look upon his like again.'"_ The funeral party consisted of Hicks, Mme.