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When old New York was young (1902)

Hemstreet, Charles, b. 1866 · New York : C. Scribner · leaf 68

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minutesone reaches Rivington Street, and comes to abattered bit of stone standing upright at thecurb line. Passed unnoticed by the hurry-ing throngs, it is a landmark ; one of thelast existing: mile-stones that marked the dis-tance on the Post Road from the City Hallin Wall Street. Much of the land… … THE INLAND ROAD TO GREENWICH throw from the mile-stone, at what is nowthe northwest corner of Delancey and Chrys-tie Streets, and it was there he died in 1760.Now the district is one of tenement-houses,and gives no suggestion of the house ofDe Lancey, or the lane which traced theline of the present…

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