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Title: Valentine's manual of old New York
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Brown, Henry Collins, 1862-1961
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Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Valentine's Manual Inc.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ther west, which alsoran to the bay along the line of our present SixteenthAvenue. These were the favorite routes for the NewUtrecht fishermen when they were bent on a days sport.And in those days the waters of the bay were pelucidand clear and the fish less coy and more abundant. Dank-ers and Sluyter state that the fish were particularly plenti-ful and that the oysters were frequently a foot long.This was in 1679. Fish stories were evidently enjoyedin those days as much as they are in our own. In 1664Gen. Nichols landed a detachment of British troops atGravesend Bay and marched them up to New Utrecht,presumably by Bennetts Lane, making a peaceful demon-stration there, and continued British headquarters thereuntil the end of the war. Communication between New Utrecht and Flatbushwas conducted chiefly by way of what was then calledthe road to Flatbush and which we now know as NewUtrecht Avenue. Another way of reaching Flatbush wasby Kings Highway. The former, however, being the ( 200 )
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OF OLD NEW YORK more direct and shorter was the one commonly used.Distances in our day have been annihilated, but in thedays when the traveller had to go on foot, or in suchaccommodation as a farmers wagon, a trip to Flatbushor Brooklyn was quite a formidable undertaking andthe good-byes were said with as much ceremony as theywould be to-day to a friend setting out for a distantpoint. We certainly travel swiftly as compared withour good old dads but swiftness should not be the onlyconsideration. When we survey the cars jammed withtheir human freight, speeding to and from New Utrechtto-day, one may be forgiven for the heresy that ourslow-footed forefathers had the best of it in the matterof transportation at least. They got there just the same!And they got there in better condition than we do, forthey always arrived with their clothes on and that can-not always be said pf us. The road to Flatbush as it was known to our revolu-tionary predecessors has entirely changed. We can im-agine w

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