Manhattan phoenix : the great fire of 1835 and the emergence of modern New York /
On a freezing December night almost two centuries ago, a fire erupted in lower Manhattan. The city's inhabitants, though accustomed to blazes in a town with so many wooden structures, a spotty water supply and a decentralized fire department, looked on in horror at the scale of this one. Philip...
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New York :
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