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174 Broadway
A century ago the glittering heart of the city's diamond, jewelry and watchmaker district beat right here. "Within these stores," wrote the Daily Graphic in 1876, "are diamonds as bright as the eyes of the ancient Dutch beauties." …
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Estate of General Horatio Gates (1728-1806) · Victor of the Battle of Saratoga 1777
Major General Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746-1817)
Colonel of Engineers in the Continental Army (1776-1784) - designer of the fortifications at West Po…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG4Z_early-north-american-colonist-remains_New-York-NY.html
Beneath this site lie the remains of seven individuals believed to be early North American born colonists. The remains dated to the late Eighteenth to early Nineteenth Century were discovered approximately 100 feet Southwest of here during undergr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG4X_castle-williams_New-York-NY.html
With walls forty feet high and eight feet thick, this red sandstone bastion bristled with over one hundred cannon when it was completed in 1811. Named after its designer, Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Williams, it has also been nicknamed the "Cheese…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG4C_48-wall-street-40-wall-street_New-York-NY.html
< 48 Wall Street Side >Museum of American FinanceWhat more appropriate home for the Museum of American Finance than the grand, 30-foot-high banking hall of the former Bank of New York building? The museum - an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG3H_new-york-stock-exchange_New-York-NY.html
The Dow Jones averages, bulls and bears, the great crash of 1929, the bull market of the 1980s and 1990s - here is the beating heart of the world's financial markets, housed in grand neoclassical style at the corner of Wall and Broad streets. Brok…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG38_federal-hall-national-memorial_New-York-NY.html
A majestic statue of George Washington stands on the front steps of Federal Hall in memory of Washington's inauguration as the country's first president - which happened on this spot on April 30th, 1789. The current building is named for the origi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG2L_ignacy-jan-paderewski_New-York-NY.html
The Buckingham was the last residence of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, first Prime Minister of Poland, great pianist, composer and friend of six U.S. presidents, whose efforts restored the independence of Poland at the end of World War I.
Paderewski d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFZX_stadt-huys-city-hall_New-York-NY.html
STADT HUYS (CITY HALL)Location: ? Broad Street & Coenties AlleyDutch Name: ? Langs Straet (Along the Shore)
New York's first city government began meeting across the street in 1653, after the Dutch West India Company agreed to grant municipal r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFZS_asser-levys-home_New-York-NY.html
ASSER LEVY'S HOMELocation: ? Stone Street at Mill LaneDutch Name: ? Hoogh Straet (High Street)
In a house on this site lived the Jewish trader and butcher Asser Levy. Possibly born in Lithuania, Levy probably came here from Amsterdam in 1654, t…