On May 2, 1832, the City Common Council secretly granted the NY&H the right to lay track along Broadway to City Hall and Bowling Green. The general public objected once they found out, and a fraudulent map was circulated at the time, showing that the railroad would take up of the street when it really would only take up . Newspaper editors also objected to the railroad's plan. In spring 1833, the railroad published a pamphlet titled "A Statement of Facts in Relation to the Origin, Progress, and Prospects of the New-York and Harlem Railroad Company" to refute objections to their plan. On March 1, 1833, a meeting was held in Tammany Hall concerning the issue. At the meeting, cabdrivers and cab owners came out against the railroad. After the meeting, the crowd tore up some of the railroad's track, and the council withdrew its Broadway agreement with the railroad. The NY&H was eventually extended downtown in 1839, but along a different route.