... , as it's called (after the Lenape people's name for "island of many hills"), is an effort to turn back the clock to the afternoon of September 12, 1609, just before Henry Hudson and his crew sailed into New York Harbor and spotted the island. (Peter Miller, National Geographic 2009)" What Sanderson did was take one particular map from his collection ... into tenements9. These tenements were run by slum lords who packed as many people into a room as they could and charged more rent than most of those people could reasonably afford. Below is an excerpt from an article in The North America...

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