Koehler v. City of New York

West street between Perry street and West Eleventh street in the borough of Manhattan was originally an exterior street seventy feet wide. In that space there are two sets of freight railroad tracks. Eighteen feet to the west of the railroad tracks there is a line of fire hydrants and electric lights. Presumably that was the former west line of the street. Surrounding the hydrants is a raised platform in which is imbedded iron columns or stanchions about four feet high. Prom that row of hydrants westward to the dock line is a space one hundred and eighty feet wide, now and for many years past…