1860s in order to attract a different class of clientele that patronized the horse market. Other hotels opened as the neighborhood developed in the late nineteenth century. One was the Hotel Knickerboker, which opened in the 1870s at the southwest corner of Third Avenue and 25th Street. The building still stands directly behind this exhibit and continues to serve as a hotel. The Bull's Head Hotel continued operation until 1905. By 1911, several tenements were erected in place of the former tavern.
Daniel Drew (subsection)
The most prominent proprietor of the Bull's Head Tavern was Daniel Drew, who began as a cattle drover himself, bringing herds to New York City from upstate. In 1830, the butchers’ association that owned the Bull's Head Tavern and surrounding stockyard made Drew the tavernkeeper. Drew expanded his business to banker, earning a one percent fee for cashing checks and keeping accounts for the cattle drovers. He also took on partners in a business that brought livestock to New York from Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois. These cattle drives took six to ten weeks to lead one to two hundred cattle to the Bull's Head Market. Drew expanded his business interests to ferry boats that crossed the Hudson River and moved from the Bull's Head Tavern to a more fashionable house on Bleecker Street in 1839. Following his career at the Bull's Head Tavern, Daniel Drew became one of the leading figures on Wall Street in the mid-nineteenth century, entering into associations with Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jay Gould. Drew lost his fortune by the economic Panic of 1873 and died in 1879.
