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Reply to "Farewell Charming Old New York: Part 2"

I've been watching the Ric Burns/PBS "New York" documentary (It's about 12 hours long). I thought it might give me some perspective on the state of things, and it has. New York has gone through many disasters and this is just another. New York has always been about real estate and making money. Literally from day one. It was owned and operated by the Dutch East India Company (a subsidary of The Dutch West India Company -for which Hattie used to work as a secretary if I remember correctly). Anyway, The English took it over, opened it as a whorehouse for their army and changed the name to New York. It's always been about money here. While Boston, Virginia, actually ALL the other colonies were about religion, New York was only ever about the dollar. If Alexander Hamilton saw it today he would be very happy.
(Until the sun went down and there wasn't any place to go dancing).

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