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It was designated as the city's 92nd historic district in July 2008 by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. [ 1 ] It encompasses a portion of the streets between 25th and 28th Streets between Tenth Avenue and the West Side Highway and was designated as such for its architectural and manufacturing heritage.
The Wall Street Historic District in New York City includes part of Wall Street and parts of nearby streets in the Financial District in Lower Manhattan.It includes 65 contributing buildings and one contributing structure over a 63-acre (25 ha) listed area.
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission was created following the preservation fight and subsequent demolition of Pennsylvania Station. New York City's right to limit owners' ability to convert landmarked buildings was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1978.
New York County Court of General Sessions Grand Jury Indictments, 1879-1893 "Old Towns," 1663-1898; Department of Parks, 1850-1960; Website of Mayor Bloomberg, 2002-2013; Website of Mayor Giuliani, 1994-2001; WNYC, 1936-198 1 and WNYC; WPA Federal Writers' Project (NYC Unit), 1936-1943; The Municipal Archives presents several exhibits each year.
Five Points (or The Five Points) was a 19th-century neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City.The neighborhood, partly built on low-lying land which had filled in the freshwater lake known as the Collect Pond, was generally defined as being bound by Centre Street to the west, the Bowery to the east, Canal Street to the north, and Park Row to the south.
Chelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.The area's boundaries are roughly 14th Street to the south, the Hudson River and West Street to the west, and Sixth Avenue to the east, with its northern boundary variously described as near the upper 20s [4] [5] or 34th Street, the next major crosstown street to the north.
The earliest surviving map of the area now known as New York City is the Manatus Map, depicting what is now Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, and New Jersey in the early days of New Amsterdam. [7] The Dutch colony was mapped by cartographers working for the Dutch Republic. New Netherland had a position of surveyor general.
Sullivan Street is a street in Lower Manhattan, which previously ran north from Duarte Square at Canal Street, [citation needed] but since around 2012 begins at Broome Street, to Washington Square South, through the neighborhoods of Hudson Square, SoHo, the South Village and Greenwich Village.