Manhattan Phoenix - The Great Fire of 1835 and the Emergence of Modern New York

Manhattan Phoenix: The Great Fire of 1835 and the Emergence of Modern New York



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English | February 22nd, 2022 | ISBN: 0195382374 | 480 pages | True EPUB | 56.40 MB

Shows vividly how the Great Fire of 1835, which nearly leveled Manhattan also created the ashes from which the city was reborn.

In 1835, a merchant named Gabriel Disosway marveled at a great fire enveloping New York, commenting on how it "spread more and more vividly from the fiery arena, rendering every object, far and wide, minutely discernible-the lower bay and its Islands, with the shores of Long Island and New Jersey."