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  2. How a surprising detail in bank records helped a historian ...

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    As he first combed through files from the Emigrant Savings Bank at the New York Public Library that day about 25 years ago, Anbinder was working on a book about the city’s famed Five Points ...

  3. Emigrant Bank - Wikipedia

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    Emigrant Savings collected extensive records of the arriving Irish immigrants to America, which were later donated to the New York Public Library and serve as valuable genealogical resources. [6] Emigrant Savings Bank also had customers from numerous other immigrant communities, including those from Eastern and Northern Europe.

  4. 49 Chambers - Wikipedia

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    Emigrant Savings Bank initially took up the banking hall, while the other floors were rented out. [22] [23] The New York Supreme Court announced in March 1912 that it would take up the 13th floor and half of the 12th floor at the Emigrant Savings Bank Building. The Supreme Court, which had a shortage of space in the Tweed Courthouse (then known ...

  5. New York Public Library - Wikipedia

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    The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second-largest public library in the United States behind the Library of Congress and the fifth-largest public library in the world. It is a private, non-governmental, independently ...

  6. List of New York Public Library branches - Wikipedia

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    The New York Public Library: a universe of knowledge. New York: New York Public Library in association with Scala Publishers, London. Dierickx, Mary B. (1996). The Architecture of Literacy: The Carnegie Libraries of New York City. New York: Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and the New York City Dept. of General Services.

  7. New York Public Library Main Branch - Wikipedia

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    The New York Public Library's Main Branch measures 390 feet (120 m) on its north–south axis by 270 feet (82 m) on its west–east axis. [45] [63] [145] The library is located on the east side of the block bounded by Fifth Avenue on the east, 40th Street on the south, Sixth Avenue on the west, and 42nd Street on the north. [197]

  8. Zooniverse - Wikipedia

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    Emigrant City: Transcription Explore the history of New York City by transcribing mortgage and bond ledgers of the Emigrant Savings Bank from between 1851 and 1921, held by the New York Public Library. [54] 1 December 2015 Measuring the ANZACs: Transcription

  9. Seymour Milstein - Wikipedia

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    [12] [5] In 1986, the Milsteins acquired the Emigrant Savings Bank, [11] which they built into the largest privately owned bank in the country. [13] [11] In 1986, they founded Liberty Cable Co. [11] In 1989, the Milstein family acquired Douglas Elliman-Gibbons & Ives residential real estate brokerage from Edwin J. Gould and Lawrence O. McGauley ...