On December 22, 1799, Elma Sands disappeared. Her body was found 11 days later in a well, currently inside the 129 Spring Street store. A house was built around the former Manhattan Well in 1817.&nbsp;

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Brooklyn Museum

Bernie Madoff went on trial for the perpetrating the largest financial fraud in US History totalling over $65 billion.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Federal Courthouse

She is three times larger than life and gilded which is what you would expect, and her back faces Brooklyn, which is not particularly surprising, either. Audrey Munson, the model after whom she was sculpted, once appeared naked in a porn film (she of the face that launched a thousand quips, she listed herself in a city directory first as an actress, then as an artist) and later was declared insane. All in all, a fitting physical manifestation of the prescient, if decidedly uneasy, consolidation in 1898 of what would become Greater New York. ("Greater" is a geographic term; the City Charter refers only to the City of New York.)The five boroughs are now home to 8.4 million people, but if New Yorkers had not overcome considerable ambivalence, Los Angeles might be the nation's largest city (with 3.8 million), followed by Chicago (2.7 million) and Brooklyn (2.5 million). Manhattan- the original New York, with 1.7 million would rank fifth or sixth, behind Houston and, perhaps, Queens.The bumpy road to consolidation was smoothed earlier in the nineteenth century by the plodding but inevitable imposition of the Manhattan street grid and, later, the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge. In 1898, Manhattan- the City of New York-merged with the eastern Bronx (the western portion had been annexed in 1874), western Queens County (a year later the county fractured as three towns formed Nassau County), Kings County (Brooklyn) and Staten Island. Westchester demurred. Inauguration of subway service in 1904, followed by construction of arterial highways and additional spans across the East and Harlem Rivers in the twentieth century, welded the tenuous legal framework of conglomeration of the five disparate boroughs into a concrete and cultural reality.Again not surprisingly, the most visible symbols of consolidation can be seen in Manhattan (Brooklyn's 1894 referendum to relinquish its status as a city and jeopardize its Protestant homogeneity passed by a suspect 277 votes of 129,000 cast). There's Albert Weinert's allegorical marble frieze in the Surrogate's Court building, which depicts a youth, symbolizing the new city, flanked by Miss Brooklyn reaching out to Miss New York. But the most visible representation is across the street, atop McKim, Mead &amp; White's beaux arts 580-foot-high Municipal Building. She is called Civic Fame. The twenty-five-foot-tall statue by Adolph A. Weinman, who also worked on Pennsylvania Station and the Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument, was installed in 1913 at a cost of nine thousand dollars. Standing heroically on a globe, she is described as the city's highest statue and the third largest, after the Statue of Liberty and Jacques Lipchitz's Bellerophon Taming Pegasus on Columbia Law School's facade.Like the Statue of Liberty, the 985-square-foot figure, which weighs 2,500 pounds, is fashioned from hammered copper on an iron frame. Barefoot, she holds a shield with the city's coat of arms (it plunged through a skylight in 1936 but was restored) and a laurel branch in her right hand and a mural crown crenelated by five turrets, symbolizing the five boroughs, in her left. Dolphins represent the city's maritime heritage.In her eighth decade and suffering from exposure, the statue was removed, restored, and regilded with hand-burnished 23.5-karat gold leaf, and hoisted back into position by helicopter in 1991. That was only four years before Audrey Munson died in an upstate asylum, just short of her 105th birthday. Munson's placid but purposeful face is everywhere, guarding the Maine monument near Columbus Circle and leading General Sherman in Grand Army Plaza. "If the name of Miss Manhattan belongs to anyone in particular," the New York Sun wrote, “it is to this young woman.”&nbsp;TEXT FROM SAM ROBERTS 101 OBJECTS

Municipal Building

 A bronze tablet was installed in the plaza beneath the memorial. The tablet, placed by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, is dedicated to the horses which, in earlier years, pulled the fire department's engines 

on 106th St., between Broadway and West End

In 1997, a study led by Professor Marcus Felson of Rutgers University proposed design and supervisory changes to reduce crime at the Port Authority Bus Terminal. In 2007, the terminal's South Wing underwent a $52 million seismic retrofit to enhance earthquake resilience. Additionally, in 1995, PKSB Architects designed improvements including a titanium facade, a canopy at the entrance, and stainless steel cladding for the terminal's ramps and bridges, with the project being completed in 2008.

Before the Port Authority Bus Terminal (PABT) was built, multiple bus terminals were scattered throughout Midtown Manhattan, including the All American Bus Depot, the Consolidated Bus Terminal, and others located within hotels. The Dixie Bus Center operated out of the Dixie Hotel from 1930 to 1959. Notably, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had a terminal with a revolving platform in the Chanin Building. With the opening of the Lincoln Tunnel in 1937 and growing bus traffic, the need for a consolidated terminal became evident, leading to the eventual creation of PABT in 1950.

Expanded in 1979, but congestion issues persist due to its high volume and lack of layover space. Plans are underway to reconstruct the terminal, incorporating new facilities.

Port Authority Bus Terminal

Grand Army Plaza

Between Canal and Bowery on the Manhattan Bridge

On July 1, 2008, the New York State Court of Appeals dismissed all claims against Grasso. The majority opinion stated that since the NYSE was now a subsidiary of a for-profit multinational corporation, the State of New York had no oversight over the affairs of the company in this matter and that prosecution was "not in the public interest".

The New York Stock Exchange

This three-ton sculpture located in the courtyard of Trinity Church was inspired by the remaining stump and root of the 70-year old sycamore tree that shielded St. Paul's Chapel against falling debris during the collapse of the Twin Towers during the 9/11 attacks. This was one of the first memorials to be installed downtown.

The sculpture was moved by Trinity Church to the The Trinity Retreat Center in Connecticut and damaged in the process. In 2017, the artist sued the church for $1.2 million under the Visual Artists Rights Act, but lost his case.&nbsp;

Trinity Church

The Trinity Retreat Center

Dow Jones & CO

1st daily publication dedicated to printing stock tables &amp; company finance information.

The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal ceased publication of its Saturday edition by Dow Jones &amp; Co. after the NYSE ended Saturday trading, a practice that began with the publication's inception in 1889.&nbsp;

The Wall Street Journal

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