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When old New York was young (1902)

Hemstreet, Charles, b. 1866 · New York : C. Scribner · leaf 115

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eet, in Paines honor. It was not [97] THE MOUSE-TRAP long, however, before this was corrupted toRaisin Street, and now it is called BarrowStreet. At the time of the small-pox scare, in1822, when thousands of people hurried toGreenwich Village to escape it, houses there-abouts grew up rapidly.… … ^ i?BA0ii4i ol Hi^roRic Ukuat :y A READING OF HISTORICTABLETS ON a day in early summer I met a veryold man standing where Broadwaybegins, and there was something sokindly in his manner that I ventured to stopand see why he gazed so long at a slab ofbronze fastened to the wall of the house atNo. I…

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