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The assets of the company were split into several smaller operations, most of which failed by the 1850s. In 1834, John Jacob Astor sold his interest on the river to replace the old fur company. He invested his fortune in real estate on Manhattan Island, New York, and became the wealthiest man in America.
Duffy Square, officially named Father Duffy Square in 1939, is the northern triangle of Times Square in Manhattan, New York City. It is bounded by 45th and 47th Streets, Broadway and Seventh Avenue. It is now well known for the TKTS reduced-price theater tickets booth located there.
Fort Amsterdam was a fortification on the southern tip of Manhattan Island at the confluence of the Hudson and East rivers. The fort and the island were the center of trade and the administrative headquarters for the Dutch and then British/Colonial rule of the colony of New Netherland and thereafter the Province of New York.
An outdoor 1936–1937 statue of Francis P. Duffy by Charles Keck is installed at Duffy Square, part of Times Square, in the New York City borough of Manhattan. [1] The statue, which was dedicated on May 2, 1937, and has the title Father Francis P. Duffy, [2] earned Keck a Grand Lodge Medal for Distinguished Achievement from the Masonic order.
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A map of the lands belonging to the estate of the late Sir Peter Warren a map made in 1773 by Gerard Bancker (26 x 10 inches, pen and ink, held by the New York Public Library) Map of the Dutch Grants a printed map by Jennie F. Macarthy published in 1928 ( The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498–1909 by I.N. Phelps Stokes; vol. 6, following ...
Peter Pan statue in park plaza John Finley Walk, a promenade named after John Huston Finley, provides a path for bicycles.. Carl Schurz Park / ʃ ʊr t s / is a 14.9-acre (6.0 ha) public park in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, named for German-born Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz in 1910, at the edge of what was then the solidly German-American community of Yorkville.
New York City was originally confined to Manhattan Island and the smaller surrounding islands that formed New York County. As the city grew northward, it began annexing areas on the mainland, absorbing territory from Westchester County into New York County in 1874 ( West Bronx ) and 1895 ( East Bronx ).