Miss Euphemia Olcott, who has been quoted here before, describes the evolution of Fourteenth Street in the following interesting way: "Fourteenth Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues I have seen with three sets of buildings--first shanties near Sixth Avenue from the rear of which it was rumoured a bogy would be likely to pursue and kidnap us....

These shanties were followed by fine, brownstone residences....

Some of these, however, I think came when there had ceased to be a _village_.

Later on came business into Fourteenth Street...." And today those never-to-be-sufficiently-pitied folk who live in the Fifties and Sixties and Seventies think of Fourteenth Street as downtown!.