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The city that
never sleeps
In the left-hand image of New York,
Third Avenue slices through the
bright lights of Manhattan, towards
the Chrysler Building, glowing out
of focus in the distance. In the
image below, the darker shaded
area to the south of Central Park is
the Financial District. The scenes
are very different from when the
first Europeans arrived in the
1600s. At that time the area was
inhabited by native Algonquian,
Iroquois and Lenape tribes, who
sold ‘Mannahatta’ to Dutch settlers
for around $1,000 in today’s money.
PHOTO: GETTY, PLANET LABS INC
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