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On Friday, I had a biz meeting at 50 Broadway, just a block from New York's historic Trinity Church. How could I resist checking out the folks that have been buried there for 200 years? In the center of the Wall Street district,
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Funny, because today it's fat-cat overpaid billionaire tycoon jackasses wandering the neighborhood... But I digress. By the 1820s, Lower Manhattan was getting a might crowded, and a shortage of land below Canal
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As the city expanded northward and immigration escalated, the area was victimized by murders, suicides, robberies, brawls, streetcar assaults and kidnappings. Then, by 1936, business overtook
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Today, however, adjacent Battery Park City, built on dirt excavated from the WTC, has brought back residents, blending the business capital of the world with a collection of swanky highrises.
Among those buried in the adjoining Trinity Church Cemetery are the nation's first treasurer, Alexander Hamilton, who's on the $10 bill; Astor family founder John Jacob Astor; Robert Fulton of ferry fame; and a lot of other renowned dead people. All dead. Very, very dead.
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