What to see in America . New York City 71. St. Patricks Cathedral, Fifth Avenue to Canal Street, sonamed because origi-nally quite a deep streamflowed there to theHudson from a pondwell back on the Indians paddledup and down the streamin their canoes, andwhen the city expandedthat far, pavementswere laid on both sides,and trees and flowerswere planted along it. At 10th Street, onBroadway, is GraceChurch, one of the mostfamous and architec-turally attractive of New Yorks ecclesiastical structures. Just east of Union Square on 14th Street is TammanyHall, the headquarters of a society
What to see in America . New York City 71. St. Patricks Cathedral, Fifth Avenue to Canal Street, sonamed because origi-nally quite a deep streamflowed there to theHudson from a pondwell back on the Indians paddledup and down the streamin their canoes, andwhen the city expandedthat far, pavementswere laid on both sides,and trees and flowerswere planted along it. At 10th Street, onBroadway, is GraceChurch, one of the mostfamous and architec-turally attractive of New Yorks ecclesiastical structures. Just east of Union Square on 14th Street is TammanyHall, the headquarters of a society which was organized forbenevolent purposes, but soon developed into a strongpolitical institution. The society took its name from anIndian chief of the pioneer period, and the officers bear thetitle of sachems, and call their hall a wigwam. The firstmeeting was held on IVIay 12th, St. Tammanys Day, in1789. Peter Stuyvesant, the most picturesque of the Dutchrulers of New Amsterdam, had a country place in the vicinityof 14th Street. It exte
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