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Most
of the streets of the Financial District, at the bottom
of the island, follow the four hundred year-old paths of
the New Amsterdam colony. Around here, the buildings are
mostly skyscrapers, and the streets are wonderful (but sunless)
twisting canyons. Huddled underneath the giants, however,
is low-slung Stone Street. In a part of town that's constantly
tearing itself down and building itself up again, this street
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All
of the original Dutch buildings in Manhattan are gone today-
most burned down in one of the several great fires that
consumed the city. One of the worst was in 1835, and the
buildings below were built in that same year, to replace
others that had burned. These
were commercial buildings, done in the fashionable Greek-revival
style. Granite bases and brick tops. |
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This
was an important commercial street for the Dutch- when it
came time to pave the streets, this is the first one they
chose. It still has quaint paving stones, but these are
twentieth-century additions- they gussied up this street
to make a movie a few years ago. |
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