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Memory Lane
Congratulations to FEDORA who celebrates 50 years in business this June!
Colt perfected the revolver in the Old NYU Building on Washington Square East.
| As a direct result of his invention and the marketing and sales success that followed, Sam Colt and his firearms played a prominent role in the history of a developing America. |
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 Ulysses.S. Grant had a pew for 7 years in the old Metropolitan Temple at the corner of Seventh Avenue and 13th Street.
| Although a man of scrupulous honesty, Grant as President accepted handsome presents from admirers. Worse, he allowed himself to be seen with two speculators, Jay Gould and James Fisk. When Grant realized their scheme to corner the market in gold, he authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to sell enough gold to wreck their plans, but the speculation had already wrought havoc with business. |
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Delamater Iron Works (13th Street near the Hudson River) made the engines for the iron clad warship, the Monitor, designed by John Ericsson. Built in 100 working days, the Monitor defeated the Confederate warship, the Merrimac, at Hampton Roads, Virginia in 1862 with Delamater men manning the engines. Ericsson, the father of modern marine engineering, built his screw propellers at Delamater, designed the 1st steam fire engines here, the 1st air compressor, and a torpedo boat, the parent of the present day destroyer. The 1st submarine torpedo boat was built here in 1881 under the direction of J.P. Holland, for whom the Holland Tunnel is named.
England’s Edward VII, stopped at the Hotel Brevoort at Fifth Avenue and 8th Street, when he was Prince of Wales.
 Abraham Lincoln’s address at the Cooper Union is credited with giving him the Republican Presidential nomination.
| Abraham Lincoln in 1860 in a photograph by Matthew Brady taken at his studio on Bleecker Street. |
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Jennie Jerome, the mother of Winston Churchill, attended the school which once stood at One Fifth Avenue.
Lafayette once visited Public School 3 at the corner of Hudson and Grove Street.
| Edgar Allan Poe, born in Boston, Jan. 19, 1809, died Oct. 7, 1849 in Baltimore, deserves more credit than any other writer for the transformation of the short story from anecdote to art. He virtually created the detective story and perfected the psychological thriller. |
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 Charles Lindbergh’s prize for his famous flight was given by Raymond Orteig, manager of the Brevoort Hotel and later of the Hotel Lafayette, located at University Place at 9th Street.
| In 1919, a New York City hotel owner named Raymond Orteig offered $25,000 to the first aviator to fly nonstop from New York to Paris. Several pilots were killed or injured while competing for the Orteig prize. By 1927, it had still not been won. |
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Pres. James Monroe spent his last year in the Village, living with his daughter Mrs. Samuel L. Gouverneur at 63 Prince Street near the corner of Crosby, He died on July 4, 1831 and was buried from this home.
| On New Year's Day, 1825, at ...(his) last annual White House reception, President James Monroe made a pleasing impression upon a Virginia lady ... " He is tall and well formed. His dress plain and in the old style.... His manner was quiet and dignified ... he well deserves the encomium passed upon him by the great Jefferson, who said, 'Monroe was so honest that if you turned his soul inside out there would not be a spot on it." |
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