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2010
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Imagine.... If you enter Central Park on the Westside at 72nd Street, on the path to Strawberry Fields you will come upon the Imagine mosaic on the ground, set there to honor John Lennon. It was a gift from Naples, Italy, and is a replica of a mosaic found in Pompeii. Countless people stop there...
02/24/2010
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Crommessie Vly was a brook that flowed through a gully that is now 21st Street, into the East River at 18th Street. The name Crommessie was Anglicized, as most of the Dutch names were, into Gramercy. The neighborhood we know as Gramercy Park encompasses the area from 14th Street to 23rdStreet, an...
02/20/2010
Open House Sunday, February 21st, 12:30 - 2:00. 225 East 36th Street, #1N Feel at home in this spacious apartment in the heart of fabulous Murray Hill in Manhattan. The two bedrooms, two bathrooms, and SEVEN closets help to make New York City living a joy. Spacious and warm, this full two bedroo...
02/20/2010
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In 1639 the Dutch governor gave two Englishmen a land grant of forty acres, crossed by a creek that emptied into a bay on the East River. There are historians who attribute the name to the turtle-filled creek; while others say it had nothing to do with turtles. They believe that the name was more...
02/18/2010
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Originally known as Inclenburg, what we now call Murray Hill was once a country estate. Robert Murray (a Quaker) conducted an import business, and owned Murray's Wharf at the intersection of Pearl and Wall Street in the 1750's. Robert and his wife, Mary Lindley Murray, called their country home B...
02/16/2010