March 2007
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What, Who Made Manhattan?
A band of explorers, entrepreneurs, pirates, prostitutes, and assorted scalawags from different parts of Europe sought riches on this wilderness island. They were the first New Yorkers. And they settled in the area, the southern most tip of the island where I am moving to today. In a curious effort to learn more about the history of my new home, my new neighborhood, I am reading the book, The...