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Repost: Picture From Our Urban Hike

Well, almost. But this is one block south of Five Points, one of the stops along the way. The 'Collect Pond', which was filled in to create Five Points, wasn't too far from the site depicted here. It's hard to think of Manhattan as rural or bucolic. It was quite so, long before the paved roads, subways, playgrounds, skyscrapers, and parks.

Here is a recent article from Ephemeral New York on Five Points.

Posted by Bulldog in History at 15:41 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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absolutely mindboggling that that area could look so rural

#1 peter on 2014-11-07 09:52 (Reply)

And not all that long ago, in the grand scheme of things.

I volunteered at the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow House in Portland, Maine. During his childhood 200 years ago, life was so charming and rural with pigs were running around the neighborhood, and yet ships were docking two blocks away from all over the world.

#1.1 LP on 2014-11-07 18:03 (Reply)

In the 1650's, my ancestor, Wilhelmus Beekman, owned a farm on the island

#2 Greg Taylor on 2014-11-07 10:34 (Reply)

Beekman Theater? I'm assuming that's a relative?

#2.1 Bulldog on 2014-11-07 11:08 (Reply)

Beekman Place, near the UN? 49th to 51st, east of 1st Ave.

#2.2 DMac on 2014-11-07 20:43 (Reply)

Yes, Beekman Place and the Beekman Arms

#2.2.1 Greg Taylor on 2014-11-21 17:32 (Reply)

Outta control, Dawg. NYC before it became a concrete jungle.

#3 OhBoy on 2014-11-07 12:53 (Reply)

It was Dutch!

#4 Bird Dog on 2014-11-20 15:57 (Reply)

On my first visit to NYC, I was staying in the Y and walking up to Times Square to the hotels holding the conference I was attending.
On the third or 4th day I had a little epiphany when I walked around a corner to find that utility workers had torn up the sidewalk and there was actual dirt underneath.
I have no idea why that surprised me so much, but I guess for days the only "nature" I had seen was either weeds or dirt and plantings that had been brought into the city and placed quite intentionally by the hand of man.

#5 Douglas2 on 2014-11-20 21:35 (Reply)

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