... in this area; mostly five or six story, narrow brick buildings with a longer east to west diameter than north to south, making each storefront quite narrow and seem as though one is intimately connected to the other. It is a relatively quiet ... a beautiful community into what became known as" America's first slum" (Peter Brightbill, Historian).3 In order to understand how this came to be, we must first strip away the layers of modern lower Manhattan and uncover who first occupied what we know ... take one particular map from his collection, dated c. 1782-1783, that was uniquely detailed...

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