The 1845 fire was equally disastrous, wiping out everything from the East River west to Broad Street and north to Wall Street.Īlexander Cartwright, considered by many today to be the father of modern baseball, was indeed a fireman, and his Knickerbocker Volunteer Fire Department gave its name to the baseball club Cartwright helped found. Only two people died, however, as the southern tip of Manhattan island was by this time already a purely commercial district. In the first, the flames consumed 674 buildings before they could be contained, doing an estimated 18 to 26 million dollars worth of damage. Two massive fires swept through lower Manhattan in this era, the first in 1835 and another in 1845. In 1854 alone, more than 300,000 immigrants came to New York–more than the entire population of the city just fifteen years prior. Thirty-two percent (like my own family, who came later) were German, and an amazing three out of every four of the new immigrants landed in Manhattan. The History of The Brooklyn Nine: Inning by Inningīetween 18, more than four million people immigrated to America.
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