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Tammany Hall: Boss Tweed & Thomas Nast

Tammany Hall: Early History As a political organization, perhaps Tammany Hall never has known an equal.  It was a product

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P.T. Barnum: Showman Extraordinaire

Phineas T. Barnum was a born showman—an unrepentant rogue and hustler—and America’s first showbiz millionaire.  His motto was “there’s a

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St. Paul’s Chapel

Completed in 1766, St. Paul’s Chapel is the second-oldest building on the Island of Manhattan— the Morris-Jumel Mansion in Harlem

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Fernando Wood and The Police Battle Royale

Elected mayor in 1855, Fernando Wood was so corrupt that the state legislature voted to shorten his term by two

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The Marble Palace: AT Stewart and The New York Sun

AT Stewart, the first department store king of America, built the “Marble Palace” in 1846 as the centerpiece of his

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The Municipal Building, New York: McKim Mead & White

Around 1890, Manhattan’s population exceeded 1.8 million, and Brooklyn was more than one and a half million, making them the

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