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Heading east brings us into the hood known as the Civic Ctr. It goes from Park Row with the Brooklyn Br to Worth St between Broadway and St James Pl. This hood is mostly commercial. Originally, it was mostly a forest with a pond know as Collect Pond, though it was first named Civil Court Pond. It was to be source of freshwater for NYC until it was filled in after being polluted by nearby factories and breweries in 1813. In 1812, it was decided by the city government that city hall would be located around here as the base of the government to get away from the major part of the city at the time. In 1820, a neighborhoods known as Five Points was made near the former pond. It did recieve a number of Irish immigrants after Irish Potato Famine in 1844, which made them leave the UK. Unfortunately, crime became big in this area especially with the slums. In the 1860's, came the 2nd and 3rd Ave Els to provide for transportation either downtown or to the rest of Manhattan. In 1870, Alfread E Beach made his first attempt at new transportation in NYC by secretley creating the Beach Pneumatic Transit, which would be a pioneer to the subway, after being rejected by William 'Boss' Tweed, but he closed it down after three years and the IRT demolished his tunnel in 1912 when building the line that is there today. Around 1880, Jacob Riis, who immigrated from Denmark looked at the slums and wrote his novel How the Other Half Lives to display the part of NYC that wasn't shown. In 1883, the Brooklyn Br was built to connect it to Brooklyn thus making the ferries obsolete. In 1900, Mayor Robert Van Wyck took the goldern shovel and placed it by City Hall Pk to build the very first NYC subway line. In 1912, the Municipal Bldg was built as the first skyscraper in NYC to have a subway line in its basement. Just a year later, the Woolworth Building was built across from City Hall Pk to be the new WTB over the Met Life Ins Bldg uptown by Madison Sq until 40 Wall St surpassed it in 1929. In 1936, the intersection of Five Points was lost when the US Courthouse was built over it, which renamed the area the Civic Ctr for being known for the government buildings that were here. Many other courthouses were built in the postwar era as the both els were demolished for being obsolete. The area does have some places that are privately owned as well besides the government buildings, though not a lot. You can get here by taking the subway to City Hall (R, W), Brooklyn Br-City Hall (4, 5, 6), Chambers St-Centre St (J, M, Z), Park Pl (2, 3), and Chambers St-WTC(A, C, E). Here is what you will find in the Civic Ctr.

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