Site of New Amsterdam (New York City, New York)

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The original Dutch city of New Amsterdam was bounded on the north by a defensive wall which followed what is now Wall Street. The wall met the original shoreline of the East River at what is now the intersection of Wall and Pearl Streets. From this point, the original shoreline followed Pearl Street southwest to Whitehall Street, then south along Whitehall to State Street, then west, curving north along State Street, then cutting across Battery Park to the intersection of Greenwich Street and Battery Place, then north along Greenwich, then following a line roughly halfway between Greenwich Street and Trinity Place, to where this line meets the Wall Street axis.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam
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Coordinates:   40°42'19"N   74°0'41"W
This article was last modified 13 years ago