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Letter to Editor
August 15, 1788
The Daily Advertiser
New York, New York County, New York
What is this article about?
A citizen complains about the poor execution of street pavement improvements in New York City, citing Broad-Way as an example of mismanagement, and urges the Common Council and Surveyor to prevent similar errors in Wall-street to avoid squandering heavy assessments on property owners.
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For the DAILY ADVERTISER.
As the alteration of the pavement in Wall-street has begun, those whose duty it is, should take care to avoid such errors and blunders, as are daily committed in the new pavement of the different streets where improvements have been attempted. Broad-Way is wretchedly managed.—This should be enquired into.—From whence does it arise?—Is the Common Council in fault?—Is the Surveyor to blame—Or is it occasioned by the inhabitants immediately interested? If by the latter, they have been misled, for they must be assessed anew, perhaps the ensuing year, to remedy the defects in the present ill-executed alteration. Why should this be?—Should the heavy assessments raised upon the owners of houses, many of whom are ill able to afford it, be squandered by ignorance and stupidity?—Are the finest streets in the city to be thus destroyed, and that too, at an expense, sufficient to form them on a plan conducive to public ornament and convenience?—Let us not complain then of taxes, when we are able to lavish sums to create nuisances.
August 14.
As the alteration of the pavement in Wall-street has begun, those whose duty it is, should take care to avoid such errors and blunders, as are daily committed in the new pavement of the different streets where improvements have been attempted. Broad-Way is wretchedly managed.—This should be enquired into.—From whence does it arise?—Is the Common Council in fault?—Is the Surveyor to blame—Or is it occasioned by the inhabitants immediately interested? If by the latter, they have been misled, for they must be assessed anew, perhaps the ensuing year, to remedy the defects in the present ill-executed alteration. Why should this be?—Should the heavy assessments raised upon the owners of houses, many of whom are ill able to afford it, be squandered by ignorance and stupidity?—Are the finest streets in the city to be thus destroyed, and that too, at an expense, sufficient to form them on a plan conducive to public ornament and convenience?—Let us not complain then of taxes, when we are able to lavish sums to create nuisances.
August 14.
What sub-type of article is it?
Persuasive
Social Critique
What themes does it cover?
Infrastructure
Taxation
Politics
What keywords are associated?
Pavement Alterations
Wall Street
Broad Way
Common Council
Surveyor
Assessments
Public Improvements
Tax Waste
What entities or persons were involved?
Daily Advertiser
Letter to Editor Details
Recipient
Daily Advertiser
Main Argument
those responsible for wall-street pavement alterations must avoid the errors seen in broad-way's mismanaged improvements, questioning blame on the common council, surveyor, or residents, and criticizing the waste of heavy assessments that burden property owners.
Notable Details
References To Broad Way As Wretchedly Managed
Questions Blame: Common Council, Surveyor, Or Inhabitants
Criticism Of Squandered Assessments Creating Nuisances Instead Of Public Benefits