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Nooks & corners of old New York (1899)

Hemstreet, Charles, b. 1866 · New York : Charles Scribner's sons · leaf 217

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et and Fifth Avenue St- Patricksis St. Patricks Cathedral, the corner-stone of which was laid in 1858. Theentire block on which it stands was, thepreceding year, given to the RomanCatholics for a nominal sum—one dol-lar—by the city. The Roman Catholic Orphan Asy-lum in the adjoining block, on… … NOOKS AND CORNERS Avenue, just above Fifty-seventh Street,a milestone. It was once on the PostRoad, four miles from Federal Hall inWall Street. Close by Fiftieth Street and ThirdAvenue, a Potters Field was estab-lished about 1835. Near it was a^ spring of exceptionally pure water.This water was…

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