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Fast T friendfollowshare
9-7-2009 3:47 AM
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Go to the source for the experience. If you are a New-Yorker (or not this glimpse into the past is quite interesting.

A map from 1782 depicts where streams once flowed and hills once stood. Compare the map with the street grid of present day Manhattan.
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9-7-2009 12:27 PM
Steve Savage
Fast T friend, thanks for this great interactive. You brought back some wonderful memories for me of riding my bike along the Jersey side of the Hudson River, to Palisades River Parkway, Fort Lee, then crossing the GWB, stopping in the middle to look northward up the Hudson River. God, what a spiritual experience that was to imagine what the past must have been like. I would exit at 186th Street, Harlem, into the "Vortex of Energy," follow Riverside Drive, along the Hudson to Central Park, ride through Mid-Town, through Greenwich Village, down through the Financial District to the South Street Seaport and Battery Park, ride the Staten Island Ferry to St. George Terminal, SI, go through State...
9-7-2009 12:48 PM
Fast T friend
hi Steve, it is a pleasure to make this small contribution. your description is beautiful. i thought there will be new-yorkers among the clippers
9-8-2009 4:31 PM
carrerinyes
Neat!
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