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[[File:Birds eye view New York City crop.jpeg|thumb|right|350px|A "bird's-eye" view of New York City from 1859; [[Wallabout Bay]] and the East River are in the foreground, the [[Hudson River]] and [[New York Bay]] in the background]]
After the signing of the Montgomerie Charter in the late 1720s, another 127 acres of land along the Manhattan shore of the East River was authorized to be filled-in, this time to a point 400 feet beyond the low-water mark; the parts that had already been expanded to the low water mark – much of which had been devastated by a coastal storm in the early 1720s and a [[nor'easter]] in 1723 – were also expanded, narrowing the channel even further. What had been quiet beach land was to become new streets and buildings, and the core of the city's sea-borne trade. This infilling went as far north as [[Lower East Side#Corlears_Hook|Corlear's Hook]]. In addition, the city was given control of the western shore of the river from [[Wallabout Bay]] south.<ref>Steinberg, pp.26–28; 34</ref>
===American Revolution===
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