Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Above the Clouds and Old New York: An Historical Sketch of the Site and a Description of the Many Wonders of the Woolworth Building
But, partly at any rate because the founders Of New York were Dutch, and hence saw in the low - lying lands at the extreme south of Manhattan an excellent opportunity for the upbuilding Of the canal-cleft type Of town to which they were accustomed, it was there that the great metropolis Of today came into existence.
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