Valentine's city of New York; a guide book, with six maps and one hundred and sixty full page pictures . aver. It is essentially sim-ilar to the regular exchange, except that it deals morelargely in small and odd lots—a sort of retail annex,as it were. The building derives additional interest fromthe fact that it stands on the site of the residence ofLord Sterling, who commanded the American troops atthe disastrous battle of Long Island, but saved themfrom capture by brilliant maneuvering. He is buriedin Trinity. There are a number of tablets in this vicinity whichwe might look at before retur
Valentine's city of New York; a guide book, with six maps and one hundred and sixty full page pictures . aver. It is essentially sim-ilar to the regular exchange, except that it deals morelargely in small and odd lots—a sort of retail annex,as it were. The building derives additional interest fromthe fact that it stands on the site of the residence ofLord Sterling, who commanded the American troops atthe disastrous battle of Long Island, but saved themfrom capture by brilliant maneuvering. He is buriedin Trinity. There are a number of tablets in this vicinity whichwe might look at before returning to Wall Street andstarting uptown. At Broad and Beaver is one to MarinusWillet, which marks the site of the seizure of arms bythe Sons of Liberty from the British in 1775. At 73Pearl Street is one to mark the site of the first CityHall erected by the Dutch under Governor Kieft, knownas the Stadt Huys (1653). The weather vane on thisold building was saved at its destruction in 1699 andfinally came into the possession of Washington Irving,who kindly bequeathed it on his death to the Society 114. The East River. Penns>lvaiua on way lo Bruuklyn >;avy Yard
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