“It was becoming somewhat more difficult, too, to open a ‘public house’ or tavern for the sale of liquor. Municipal authorities now requested applicants for a license to present a certificate attesting they were ‘of good life & Conversation and fit to keep such a house.”— Edwin G. Burrows, amazon.comTagged: New York City, History, Public House, Lower Manhattan, Gangs of New York
“To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of…”— Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace, amazon.comTagged: NYC