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Publié par
Date de parution
06 août 2019
EAN13
9781683356202
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
9 Mo
Publié par
Date de parution
06 août 2019
EAN13
9781683356202
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
9 Mo
1.
Approximate original shoreline of Manhattan
in the 1600s-from Pearl Street on the East River
to Greenwich Street on the Hudson River.
2.
Astor Place: Named for John Jacob
Astor, who made his fortune trading
beaver pelts and real estate.
3.
Peter Stuyvesant was the final director general of New Amsterdam before the British took
over the island and renamed it New York. He was known for having one wooden leg.
4.
Collect Pond Park
5.
The Hangman s Elm
6.
Minetta Lane covers a stream of the same name
that still flows underground. In the 1860s, the area
was known as Little Africa for the former enslaved
people who came from down south to live there
after Emancipation.
7.
Site of Werpoes, one of
the largest Lenape
villages.
8.
African Burial Ground
National Monument
9.
Pearl Street was named for
giant piles of empty oyster shells
left behind by the Lenape.
10.
75 Wall Street: Site of the
Meal Market and New York City s first
slave market.
11.
The Rutgers and Delancey families divided their
land into small grids before the Commissioners Plan
of 1811 laid out a grid design for the entire island.
12.
The High Line park was built along an
old elevated train track that once belonged
to the New York Central Railroad.
13.
Location of Seneca Village,
torn down in 1857 when Central
Park was constructed.
14.
The Croton Receiving
Reservoir once sat where
the Great Lawn is today.
15.
The East River is not truly a river because
it has no freshwater source. Technically, it is a
marine tidal strait connecting Upper New York
Bay to the Long Island Sound.
16.
The New York Public Library opened
in 1911. It was built on the site of the
Croton Distributing Reservoir, which
stored the city s water supply.
Abrams Books for Young Readers New York
MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO
when the glaciers melted, before
anything had a name, the island lay sheltered in an estuary,
where freshwater river met saltwater sea, anchored on bedrock
far below the surface of the earth.
Summers were steamy. Winters were cold. Wind blew in from the
ocean nearby, and sunshine and rain were abundant.
On the land, in the air, and beneath the sparkling waters, the
island bubbled with life.
