Excerpt from The Book of New York Looking at the tens of thousands of new buildings, the miles and miles of new-made thoroughfares, it is the very newest of all cities: yet it is also one that possesses the salt and the savor of time. One needs but remember that in old St. Mark's Church there lies buried a man who, of powerful influence on the life and development of this, his beloved town, was ruler here while the long-ago Thirty Years' War was rag ing, was born when Elizabeth was Queen of England and while Shakespeare was splendidly in mid-career. In everything, New York is the city that is differ ent. When considering Boston, Philadelphia, Chi cago, San Francisco, it is customary to speak of what their people think or are or do, but no one ever Speaks thus of the people of New York, but only of the city itself. For the city is so much greater than its peo ple! With New York, the city makes the people; elsewhere, the people make the city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.