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Seeing photos of Alexander Hamilton’s Grange today got me interested in the finding the oldest houses in each borough. I’ll try to be brief and give you links to official websites. In Manhattan, the oldest house is the Morris-Jumel House which was briefly the home of Aaron Burr, the man who killed Hamilton. It was built about 1765 as a…
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Alexander Hamilton’s country house, called The Grange, is moving again. It was built in 1802 on what became West 143 St, moved in 1889 to West 141 St, and is currently (Saturday, June 7) rolling down Convent Avenue to its new site at the northwest corner of St. Nicholas Park. I wanted to see this spectacle for myself, but I…
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When I listen to the traffic reports, I always hear the same names: Major Deegan, Van Wike, the Kozkewsko, etc. I’ve always wondered who those people were and how people get big things named after them. I found out that knowing someone helps (no surprise there), and sometimes it helps to be a hero. Major Deegan, Bronx: Maj. William F….
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I don’t want to be depressing, but there’s some bad news about the U.S. economy: The U.S. economy clearly is in a recession. The stock market is down, 63,000 jobs were lost in Feb 2008, there’s a mortgage crisis that’s being felt all around the world, dollar is weak against the Euro and the yen, and who knows what’s next….
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Five Points, the area near Columbus Park in downtown Manhattan so lovingly portrayed in The Gangs of New York, is nowadays part of Chinatown. The movie faithfully shows you the violence, squalor, filth, and poverty of The Points, but it missed the vibrancy of NYC’s melting pot. In the movie, Leonardo DiCaprio and Liam Neeson are Irish immigrants who are…
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This town we love was first settled by the Iroquis and Alaconquin tribes, and later (1625) was invaded by Dutch members of the West India Trading Company — businessmen! Isn’t that soooo New York? Our town was called New Amsterdam until the English took over and re-named it New York. Here is a list of words you’ve seen around town…
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