the Southern tip of Manhattan and it was comprised of a collection of warehouses, homes, docks, churches and government buildings, with the preceding 100 years mostly a competition between the Dutch and British for control of the New York Harbour.1 As the population grew, the need for a plan to be laid out to ensure the City’s prosperous and potentially profitable future arose. The years 1790 to 1800 saw the population of manhattan rise quickly, with the total inhabitants almost doubling from…
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