... found an article from the September 2009 issue of National Geographic written by Peter Miller5 that breaks strips down Manhattan to its' bare bones of the early seventeenth century. Eric Sanderson, an ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo, bought historical maps of what the British soldiers saw surrounding them during their occupation of Manhattan during the Revolutionary War. Sanderson fell ... in love with the simplicity of the landscape and decided he wanted others to & ... no longer a slum, the streets have been cleaned and rent is more expensive than most ...

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