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New York City originated as New Amsterdam, in the state of New Netherland, in the mid-1600s and (for the most part) prospered into the sprawling metropolis it is today through a combination of reform movements, comprehensive city planning initiatives introduced in the nineteenth century, nonpartisan municipal commissions, and the ceaseless lure of commerce. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Amsterdam, Central Park, Fifth Avenue, Tammany Hall, Dutch West India Company, United States, Greenwich Village, Madison Square Garden, New Netherland, Hudson River, World War, Columbia University, Empire State Building, Long Island, East River, New Jersey, Times Square, Wall Street, Alexander Hamilton, Lower East Side, Lower Manhattan, Eugene O'Neill, Statue of Liberty, Union Square, United Nations New!
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New York City originated as New Amsterdam, in the state of New Netherland, in the mid-1600s and (for the most part) prospered into the sprawling metropolis it is today through a combination of reform movements, comprehensive city planning initiatives introduced in the nineteenth century, nonpartisan municipal commissions, and the ceaseless lure of commerce. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Amsterdam, Central Park, Fifth Avenue, Tammany Hall, Dutch West India Company, United States, Greenwich Village, Madison Square Garden, New Netherland, Hudson River, World War, Columbia University, Empire State Building, Long Island, East River, New Jersey, Times Square, Wall Street, Alexander Hamilton, Lower East Side, Lower Manhattan, Eugene O'Neill, Statue of Liberty, Union Square, United Nations New!
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- Selected Poems by Walt Whitman (American Poetry) by Walt Whitman in Front Matter, and page 251
- A History of New York by Edwin T. Bowden on page 93, and page 199
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