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Pioneer in the war against drugs.[Marker includes an inscription in Chinese characters.]
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This building is the property of the Kiamie family. it was built in the Romanesque style, designed in 1890 by Charles W. Romeyn, as a home for the Grolier Club. It provides a fine illustration of how an imaginative architect could compose a highly…
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John Street Church is the oldest Methodist Society in continental America and is the mother church of American Methodism. The Society was organized in New York in 1766 by Philip Embury, and ardent Irish Methodist and former Wesleyan preacher who s…
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The oldest Methodist Society in America organized in 1766 by Philip Embury and Barbara Heck constructed here in 1768 Wesley Chapel, the first Methodist meeting house in America. The present church, the third on this site, was completed in 1841.
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"Philip, you must preach to us or we will all go to hell together, and God will require our blood at your hands." With these words in 1766, Barbara Heck - who to her horror had found her formerly Methodist relatives playing cards in her kitchen - …
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1 Wall StreetOn one of the world's most expensive corners - 1 Wall Street and Broadway - architect Ralph Walker conceived his zig-zag Art Deco skyscraper for the Irving Trust Company as a "curtain wall" - not the typical sheet of glass hanging fro…
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New York UnearthedThe underground chambers of "New York Unearthed," a museum operated by the South Street Seaport Museum, display the remarkable extent of archaeological finds in New York. These range from the surprisingly old-3,000-year-old potte…
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India HouseThe handsome brownstone building facing Hanover Square, built in 1853, originally housed the Hanover Bank - making this a rare surviving bank building from pre-Civil War New York. Like so many banks, it was inspired by Italian Renaissan…
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Trinity was founded as the Church of England's parish church for colonial New York, and its charter issued in 1697 by King William III, appointed as rector the Lord Bishop of London. Despite Trinity's Royal beginnings, however, the church's later …
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From early Dutch times the tip of Manhattan was fortified with the batteries of guns from which the Battery takes its name - first at the 17th-century Fort Amsterdam on the Custom House site, then at Castle Clinton. Fort Amsterdam disappeared long…