IF TWO ARE DEAD Locations Today
Locales
of New York City
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Northeast
corner of Chambers Street and West Broadway. At the extreme edge of town in
1762, this is roughly where
Thomas Dordrecht’s boarding house (not
the Cosmopolitan Hotel) was located. |
Southwest
corner of Chambers Street and Centre Street—and the northeast corner of City
Hall Park. The darker sidewalk tiles delineate the footprint of the British
army barracks built in 1758. |
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Looking
north into City Hall Park from Park Row, we see the building itself and the statue
of Nathan Hale—who was actually hanged at East 66th Street and
Third Avenue. |
Looking
east down Maiden Lane from Broadway. Adelie & John Glasby’s leased home was approximately where
the Alfanoose middle eastern restaurant is now. |
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Hanover
Square is now a very small but attractive park. The brownstone building on its
west side, currently Bayard’s Restaurant, was once “India House,” and before
that the N.Y. Cotton Exchange. In the 18th Century, it was fine
residences, the home of Mr. &
Mrs. Benjamin Leavering. |
Peck
Slip, a focus of New York’s shipping industry for centuries, is now slowly
turning residential. Whether the excavations currently under way are due to
infrastructure repairs—or archaeology—your author was unable to determine. |
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An
18th Century commercial building
on Peck Slip might have looked something like this. Of course, the windows and doorway on the near
wall would have been real! Imagined as
the site of offices of Castell, Leavering & Sproul. |
A
19th Century engraving of
the Livingston Sugar House and Middle Dutch Collegiate Church (1731,
demolished 1882) on Nassau Street. The British used it as a prison during the
Revolutionary War. |
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