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| | In 1883 this American poet and essayist wrote “The New Colossus” to aid the Pedestal Fund Campaign. Twenty years later her sonnet was cast in bronze and placed inside the Statue’s pedestal. “Give me your tired, your poor, . . . . . — — Map (db m49815) HM |
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Emma Lazarus
1849 - 1887
poet, essayist
and humanitarian
lived here
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses
yearning to breathe
free — — Map (db m147632) HM |
| | Front:
Hello…
I am Caroline Schermerhorn Astor. With my husband William Backhouse Astor, Jr. – a grandson of John Jacob Astor, once the richest man in America – I built a mansion at the corner of 34th Street, where the Empire . . . — — Map (db m155010) HM |
| | This building, constructed in 1895, is among the best of the many eclectic firehouses built by Napoleon Le Brun & Sons. Today it seems surprising that such an elaborate design would be used for so utilitarian a structure. The entire spirit of the . . . — — Map (db m126953) HM |
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This Flag Staff
raised in memory of the
valorious young patriot,
Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth
Born 1837 - Died 1861
and his Fire Zouaves whose
members enlisted in 1861 for
military service in The War
Between the States.
Colonel . . . — — Map (db m98752) HM WM |
| | Vast, looming and dark by comparison to all previous skyscrapers, on completion the Equitable Building could claim the title of, if not the tallest, then certainly the largest office building in the world. Successful life insurance companies like . . . — — Map (db m147631) HM |
| | This monumental flagstaff honors those victorious forces of the United States Army and Navy who were officially received at this site following the armistice and the conclusion of World War I. The monument was commissioned by Rodman Wanamaker at the . . . — — Map (db m41364) HM |
| | Named in memory of 2d Lieutenant Ewin V. Evans, D.S.C. F Co. 16th Infantry Killed in action in France July 20, 1918 — — Map (db m148731) HM |
| | According to Bernie Faerman, when Faerman Cash Register Company opened at 331 Broome Street (1959) and then relocated to 159 Bowery (1963), the area was “Cash Register Heaven,” with multiple dealerships within just a few blocks. A museum . . . — — Map (db m132822) HM |
| | Front:
Hello…
I worked as a letter carrier here after serving in WWII. When I first started, the entire city had one postal zone. Mail volume grew over the next 20 years. To make sorting and delivering easier, the USPS created the Zone . . . — — Map (db m156623) HM |
| | Fashion Walk of Fame celebrates excellence in American design by honoring the New York designers who have had a significant and lasting impact on the way the world dresses.
New York has been the undisputed center of American fashion since the . . . — — Map (db m60576) HM |
| | On October 11, 2009, Joseph De Veuster, better known as Father Damien, was canonized by the Vatican. He was the tenth person recognized as a Saint by the Catholic Church to have lived, worked, or died in what is now the United States. To . . . — — Map (db m153220) HM |
| | Father Antonio Demo (1870-1936) was born on April 23, 1870, at Lazzaretto di Bassano in the province of Vicenza, Italy. His study at the diocesan and Scalabrinian seminaries was twice interrupted by mandatory military service. Father Demo . . . — — Map (db m143289) HM |
| | This park commemorates four local heroes who perished in the face of fire, losing their lives that others might live. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Father Richard Fagan (1911-1938) moved with his family to Boston, Massachusetts as a child and later lived . . . — — Map (db m144484) HM |
| | A majestic statue of George Washington stands on the front steps of Federal Hall in memory of Washington’s inauguration as the country’s first president – which happened on this spot on April 30th, 1789. The current building is named for the . . . — — Map (db m127857) HM |
| | A majestic statue of George Washington stands on the front steps of Federal Hall in memory of Washington’s inauguration as the country’s first president—which happened on this spot on April 30th, 1789.
The current building is named for the . . . — — Map (db m95563) HM |
| | Deep inside the Federal Reserve Bank of New York lies more than one quarter of the world’s known reserves of gold bullion. These tens of billions of dollars’ worth of gold bars, each numbered and weighed, are stored five stories underground in 122 . . . — — Map (db m47237) HM |
| | Inspired by Florentine renaissance palaces and completed in 1924, this structure of Indiana limestone and Ohio sandstone with ironwork by Samuel Yellin was designed by York and Sawyer and built by Marc Eidlitz & Son, Inc. Five stories are below . . . — — Map (db m47245) HM |
| | Left: Ferries, Tugs and Tall Ships
Not so long ago, New Yorkers travelling overseas left from passenger terminals located on Manhattan’s west side piers. Steamship lines owned their own terminals, and the arrivals and departures of great . . . — — Map (db m134089) HM |
| | Erected in 1909, this building was designed by Maynicke and Franke in Italian Renaissance Eclectic Style. The first structure on this site was the farmhouse of Christopher Mildberger, moved here in 1839 during the extension of Fifth Avenue. . . . — — Map (db m41204) HM |
| | Finn Square
.1 acre
In 1919, the widening and extension of Varick Street created a triangular space at Varick’s intersection with West Broadway and Franklin Street. The Board of Aldermen (predecessor of the City Council) named the space for . . . — — Map (db m129392) HM |
| | Unveiled in 1994, this dynamic statue of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia (1882-1947) is by the well-known sculptor Neil Estern (b. 1926). La Guardia, the son of a United States Army bandleader, was born on December 11, 1882, at 177 Sullivan Street in . . . — — Map (db m140734) HM |
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| | This 1898 firehouse, designed by Ernest Flagg and W.B. Chambers, is a striking example of the French Beaux Arts style of architecture. At the time of construction it was also the headquarters of the Chief of the Fire Department. The colorful and . . . — — Map (db m24424) HM |
| | The Firemen’s Garden on East Eighth Street between Avenues C and D honors the memory of all New York City firefighters who were killed in the line of duty. The site pays homage in particular to the memory of Martin R. Celic (1952-1977), a young . . . — — Map (db m145373) HM |
| | The Firemen’s Memorial (1913) in Riverside Park is one of the most impressive monuments in New York City. The monument was designed by H. Van Buren Magonigle (1867-1935) and its sculptures are attributed to Attilio Piccirilli (1866-1945). . . . — — Map (db m54004) HM |
| | To the heroic dead of the Fire Department < Back of Monument : > To the men of the Fire Department of the City of New York who died at the call of duty Soldiers in a war that never ends This memorial is dedicated by the people of a . . . — — Map (db m54005) HM |
| | This monument was erected at the request of the volunteer firemen of Empire Steam Engine Company No. 42 as a tribute to six firemen who were killed as firefighters or in battle as soldiers in the Civil War. — — Map (db m127063) HM WM |
| | During the 1999 restoration of City Hall Park, archaeological excavations uncovered burials in this area believed to have been associated with a shelter and workhouse for the poor known as the First Almshouse (1736 – 1797), located where City . . . — — Map (db m130084) HM |
| | 1633 The site of the first church built on Manhattan Island Evaradus Bogardus, Dominie This tablet erected by the Daughters of Holland Dames 1933 — — Map (db m20238) HM |
| | The first ferry service in New York began here on Peck Slip established by Cornelius Dirckson in 1630 with only a small canoe it cost three beads of wampum — — Map (db m125854) HM |
| | Completed in 1935, this was the first housing project undertaken by the New York City Housing Authority and the first low-income public housing project in the nation. The buildings were designed by Frederick L. Ackerman in a simplified Art Deco . . . — — Map (db m146100) HM |
| | The nation’s first public housing project. On November 21, 1934 the city began its battle against the slums when the newly-formed New York City Housing Authority obtained the right to demolish and rebuild the tenements on this site. These . . . — — Map (db m146129) HM |
| | The first Latin School of New Amsterdam was founded on this site in 1659 by Dr. Alexander Carolus Cursius Curtius, Lithuanian nobleman and scholar who came to the Dutch colony as Latin School Master upon the invitation of Governor Peter Stuyvesant. — — Map (db m20288) HM |
| | The Moravian Church, known in history as the Unitas Fratrum or Unity of the Brethren is one of the oldest continuing Protestant denominations…. Founded by the followers of John Hus in Bohemia in 1457, and spreading to Germany, England, and America . . . — — Map (db m151837) HM |
| | This site marks the location of the first National Sunday School Convention October 1832 in the Chatham Street Chapel-Theatre.
This 150th anniversary honors the millions of children and youth whose lives have been nurtured by the educational . . . — — Map (db m72118) HM |
| | Downtown’s East River shipping history still resonates in the names of half a dozen streets called slips – originally inlets carved into the island, where ships were tied up at either side to unload merchandise. Eventually filled in and . . . — — Map (db m146134) HM |
| | The city’s earliest Presbyterian congregation organized in 1716, built this church in 1845 from plans by Joseph C. Wells after worshiping for over 120 years at Wall and Nassau Streets. The main edifice is modeled after the church of St. Saviour in . . . — — Map (db m122286) HM |
| | Occupied by George Washington from April 26 1789 to February 25 1790. — — Map (db m131945) HM |
| | On this site
William Bradford
appointed
Public Printer
April 10th A.D. 1693
established the first
printing press
in the
Colony of New York.
Erected by the
New York
Historical Society
April 10th A.D. 1893
in commemoration . . . — — Map (db m41644) HM |
| | The first cemetery
of the
Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
Sherith Israel
in the City of New York
1656 – 1833 — — Map (db m125825) HM |
| | At this place 24 March 1900
Hon. Robert A. Van Wyck made the first excavation for the underground railway
Rapid Transit Commission
Alexander E Orr President
Johns H Starin
Woodbury Langdon
George L Rives
Charles Stewart Smith
Morris . . . — — Map (db m130481) HM |
| | FishBridge Park is located on the south side of Dover Street, from Pearl to Water Streets. It is between the Fulton Fish Market, to the south, and the Brooklyn Bridge, to the north. Of the two distinguished New York institutions, Fulton Fish Market . . . — — Map (db m41322) HM |
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Originally built as a brownstone-faced townhouse in 1871, the Fisk-Harkness House was substantially altered in 1871 to the designs of architect Raleigh C. Gildersleeve. Best known for the Tudor-inspired buildings he designed for the campus of . . . — — Map (db m144964) HM |
| | The Flag of Honor contains the names of all those who perished in the World Trade Center, at the Pentagon, and aboard United Flights 175 and 93 and American flights 11 and 77 on September 11, 2001 and in the February 26, 1993 bombing of the World . . . — — Map (db m60370) HM |
| | This early skyscraper, originally named the Fuller Building, was completed in 1902 from plans of D.B. Burnham & Company. Its triangular shape caused it to become generally known as the Flatiron Building. This was one of the early buildings to employ . . . — — Map (db m146807) HM |
| | The new Governors Island landfill was only just complete – a largely empty dust blown expanse of over 100 acres – when it gained fame for its role in the budding aviation industry. In 1909, the Hudson-Fulton Celebration took place to . . . — — Map (db m69794) HM |
| | Fluxus artist George Maciunas, 1931-1978) founded 16-18 Green Street as a Fluxhouse Cooperative, as artist-in-residence center of avant-garde innovation in living, performance, and creativity — — Map (db m56934) HM |
| | At this site stood Fluxhouse Cooperative II, the first co-op in SoHo and the location of performances by Alan Kaprow, Yoko Ono, and Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theater. George Maciunas, a founding member of Fluxus, purchased 80 Wooster . . . — — Map (db m138096) HM |
| | Foley Square is named for Thomas F. “Big Tom” Foley (1852-1925), a prominent Democratic Party leader from the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Foley left school at the age of thirteen to support his widowed mother, working for a period as . . . — — Map (db m41326) HM |
| | [ Marker #1 ] For thousands of years this land was inhabited by the Lenape people. They belonged to tribes or clans symbolized by the wolf, the turtle or the turkey. These three animals also represented the three key elements on which the Lenape . . . — — Map (db m41376) HM |
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This medallion lies just beyond the edge of the African Burial Ground. Closed in 1794, the African Burial ground once covered more than 5 acres – about 5 city blocks. It is estimated that about 10,000 men, women and children of African . . . — — Map (db m130935) HM |
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Foley Square c. 1800 consists of a central medallion surrounded by four segments of three medallions.
Central medallion: Map of Foley Square c. 1800
Around the perimeter: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created . . . — — Map (db m128579) HM |
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(Medallion) The leveling of the hills • Fresh water pond filled 1802-1812
As early as 1780, draining the Collect Ponds was suggested to rid the area of pestilence thought to originate in this swampy land. The adjacent . . . — — Map (db m128686) HM |
| | Built during 1963-67 to serve as the headquarters for one of the nation’s largest private foundations, the Ford Foundation Building is one of the most widely admired examples of modern architecture in new York City. In a radical departure for modern . . . — — Map (db m137992) HM |
| | Built in 1925-27 on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan's most prestigious commercial thoroughfare, this elegant Neo-Classical structure was designed by Warren & Wetmore, the architects of Grand Central Terminal. Clad with Indiana limestone and marble, the . . . — — Map (db m14046) HM |
| | “Its Imperial Roman temple front became the standard for civic buildings in the United States.”
-Samuel G. and Elizabeth White, McKim, Mead, and White: The Masterworks”
You are standing at the Bowery Savings Bank, . . . — — Map (db m132531) HM |
| | This plaque marks the site of the former residence of Thomas Jefferson third President of the United States of America who on March 21 1790 as first Secretary of State under President Washington came to New York City then seat of the Federal . . . — — Map (db m57569) HM |
| | Built in 1893—94 as public school 67, this Romanesque Revival style building was designed by C.B.J. Snyder, Superintendent of School Buildings for the New York City Board of Education. From 1948 to 1984 it was the School of Performing Arts, . . . — — Map (db m57241) HM |
| | ( six markers set into the pavement at the NYC AIDS Memorial Park at St. Vincent’s Triangle )
Sisters of Charity of New York - Founded 1817
The Sisters of Charity founded the hospital to care for the poor and disadvantaged. . . . — — Map (db m145803) HM |
| | Adjoining this site was the first Dutch fort on Manhattan Island known as Fort Amsterdam. The first house was erected here before 1664. In 1771 Captain Archibald Kennedy built here his residence which was used in 1776 by General George Washington as . . . — — Map (db m20275) HM |
| | INTRODUCTION In September 1609, Henry Hudson and some 20 seamen sailed their ship, the Halve Maen (Half Moon), into what is today New York harbor. The Dutch East India Company expected Hudson to find a passage to Asia. Instead, his . . . — — Map (db m127314) HM |
| | With its high ground and expansive views to the north and east, it is clear why this spot was regarded as an important strategic position in two wars. In 1776, the British built a fortification here, following its invasion of Manhattan, as part of a . . . — — Map (db m97297) HM |
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| | In the decades following the War of 1812, Fort Gibson continued to be used as a military installation. Large magazines were built to store explosive black powder, which was too unstable to be kept at the Navy Yard in Brooklyn. During the Civil War, . . . — — Map (db m49335) HM |
| | The fort that stood here on Ellis Island was part of two defensive triangles which made it almost impossible for enemy ships to approach New York City. Any ship entering the upper harbor first had to pass the guns of Fort Wood on Liberty Island and . . . — — Map (db m49310) HM |
| | The earliest fort on this site was built in 1794. Great Britain’s navy had been seizing American merchant ships and forcing their sailors into service on British vessels. Congress decided that the nation’s most important harbors should be defended . . . — — Map (db m49336) HM |
| | Fort Gibson was among 40 forts constructed between 1794 and 1812 in the United States. All were built during threats of war resulting from attacks on American shipping by Great Britain and France, two dominant powers of the 18th and 19th centuries. . . . — — Map (db m49311) HM |
| | The stones you see here reveal yet another layer of the story of Ellis Island. This is the story of Fort Gibson, one of the earliest forts built after the American Revolution to protect New York Harbor. Discovered during the excavations for the . . . — — Map (db m49298) HM |
| | If you were standing here in 1812, you would be looking at the exterior wall of Fort Gibson, which was five and a half feet thick and sixteen feet high. What you see now are the remains of that wall’s lower half. These remains, which continue seven . . . — — Map (db m49299) HM |
| | This important example of military architecture is a dramatic reminder of the early defenses erected in New York Harbor to protect the City from invasion by sea. Like so many other early fortifications in this country, its star-shaped plan was . . . — — Map (db m47014) HM |
| | 1776 1909 Hudson Fulton Celebration Commission On this hill top stood Fort Tryon the northern out work of Fort Washington. Its gallant defence against The Hessian Troops by The Maryland and Virginia Regiment 16 November 1776 was . . . — — Map (db m41562) HM |
| | This historic area and its surroundings were developed and presented to the people of the City of New York in 1935 by John. D. Rockefeller, Jr. The adjacent hilltop, and outpost of Fort Washington, was gallantly defended in November 1776 by the . . . — — Map (db m41566) HM |
| | This memorial marks the site of Fort Washington, constructed by the Continental troops in the summer of 1776. Repossessed by the Americans upon their triumphal entry into the City of New York November 25, 1783. Erected through the generosity of . . . — — Map (db m12670) HM |
| | The Statue of Liberty’s pedestal sits atop the remains of Fort Wood, originally one link in a chain of defenses protecting New York City and its vital harbor. The fort was built between 1808 and 1811 in the shape of an eleven-pointed star and was . . . — — Map (db m49283) HM |
| | Composed of stonework
from the façade of the
original university building
at Washington Square
Dedicated at University Heights
1894
Rededicated at
Washington Square
1978 — — Map (db m144086) HM |
| | This fountain was built as a memorial to Ann Maria Cotheal Swords by her son Henry C. Swords. — — Map (db m127064) HM |
| | These London Plane trees were planted in memory of Four Chaplains of U.S. Army Rev. George L. Fox, Chc. Rabbi Alexander D. Goode, Chc. Rev. Clark V. Poling, Chc. Rev. Father John P. Washington, Chc. who, after giving their life belts to their fellow . . . — — Map (db m40510) HM |
| | This Victorian Gothic structure was designed in 1888 by Calvert Vaux (co-designer of Central and Prospect Parks) and George Radford. Donated by John Jacob Astor III “in affection and remembrance” of his wife Charlotte, a supporter of the . . . — — Map (db m134072) HM |
| | Near this site in 1707 Francis Makemie, a native of Ireland and Father of American Presbyterianism, challenged the edict of Lord Cornbury, Governor of the colony, forbidding him from preaching here. The services he conducted in William Jackson’s . . . — — Map (db m47313) HM |
| | While living here in 1957-59, the poet, critic, and curator wrote a monograph about Jackson Pollock. His poems dealt with urban themes in an expressionist style analogous to Pollock's action paintings. — — Map (db m145847) HM |
| | Frank O’Hara (1926-1966)
The influential American poet Frank O’Hara lived at 441 East Ninth Street from 1959 to 1963. O’Hara was a leading member of the New York School of poetry as well as an accomplished art critic and a curator at the Museum of . . . — — Map (db m124696) HM |
| | This bronze equestrian sculpture of military officer, educator, journalist, and public servant Franz Sigel (1824-1902) is by the distinguished sculptor Karl Bitter (1867-1915). Sigel is also honored with a park named for him, which is . . . — — Map (db m53973) HM |
| | After the American Revolutionary War, on December 4, 1783, General George Washington bade an emotional farewell to his officers at a banquet held in the Long Room, located on the second floor of this tavern. Samuel Fraunces, a West Indian innkeeper, . . . — — Map (db m146130) HM |
| | Samuel Fraunces in 1762 named his Queen’s Head tavern after Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III. His politics, however, were strictly patriotic, and his tavern hosted meetings of the radical Sons of Liberty and, later, the New York Provincial . . . — — Map (db m146131) HM |
| | Erected in 1719 –. Chamber of Commerce founded here 1768. Washington’s Farewell to his Officers December 4th, 1783. Centennial Celebration of Washington’s Farewell 1883. Sons of the Revolution reorganized here December 4th, 1883. Building . . . — — Map (db m129816) HM |
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In 1881, Worth’s Museum and Congress of Living and Intimate Curiosities opened at 101 Bowery. Like other dime museums which lined the Bowery, Worth’s offered a variety of freakish amusements, such as the largest specimen of giant squid in North . . . — — Map (db m132411) HM |
| | In memoriam Fred’k D. Grant Eldest son of U. S. Grant Vicksburg 1863 - Virginia 1864 – 65 Major General U.S.A. - Minister to Austria Member Grant Monument Association 1908 – 1912 — — Map (db m123592) HM |
| | A French sculptor and friend of De Laboulaye, he created the Statue of “Liberty Enlightening the World” and selected its site. Inspired by his first view of New York Harbor, Bartholdi later wrote “The Statue was born for this . . . — — Map (db m49812) HM |
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As one of the most famous and respected black abolitionist leaders of the 19th century, Frederick Douglass inspired many people through his courage and determination
Frederick Bailey was born a slave in February 1818 on Holmes Hill Farm in . . . — — Map (db m132233) HM |
| | Born into slavery in Maryland, Frederick Bailey found the way to freedom along the Underground Railroad in 1838. Disguised as a sailor, he travelled to Manhattan by ship, and found shelter in the house of abolitionist David Ruggles on Lispenard . . . — — Map (db m135718) HM |
| | The early history of baseball is closely associated with this site, once occupied by the Gotham Inn, an 18th century farmhouse-turned-tavern that by the mid-1800s headquartered the Gotham Base Ball Club. According to baseball historian John Thorn, . . . — — Map (db m136746) HM |
| | This Beaux Arts style NYC Landmark was built for the Bowery Bank of New York in 1902, replacing the National Butchers (sic) and Drover’s (sic) Bank. Of the approximately 50 bank buildings designed by York & Sawyer, a leading architectural firm, this . . . — — Map (db m132578) HM |
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The long process of burying Collect Pond was completed by the mid-1810s, but its watery legacy remained. Streets laid over the former pond created a neighborhood that was briefly fashionable but quickly declined after the filled-in pond began to . . . — — Map (db m131785) HM |
| | This impressive Beaux Arts-style structure of 1898-99 was the third Bowery home of the Germania Bank, which was established in 1869 by local businessmen of German extraction. The area along and east of the Bowery – known as . . . — — Map (db m132709) HM |
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When native people of the Delaware nation speak of the place known today as Manhattan, they say Hay-La-Py-Ee-Chen Quay-Hee-OLass. This means “the place where the sun is born.” They also call it Menatay, “the . . . — — Map (db m130939) HM |
| | Fulton Fish Market
South Street Seaport recently lost its famously pungent neighbor, New York’s Fulton Fish Market. Founded in the early 19th century, the market occupied a ramshackle collection of buildings that came to life in the earliest . . . — — Map (db m147869) HM |
| | One of the district's most sophisticated architectural treasures, No. 142 Beekman (also known as 211 Front Street) was designed by George B. Post—later architect of the New York Stock Exchange—for a descendent of Peter Schermerhorn. The . . . — — Map (db m21152) HM |
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In the 1890s, this Bowery at Doyers Street corner was a gateway to the tiny but thriving Chinatown, even then a famed tourist destination. Squeezed between Bowery, Mott, Pell and Doyers Streets and dominated by Chinese shops and residents, it was . . . — — Map (db m132308) HM |
| | This sculpture by George Segal (1924–2000) honors the gay rights movement and commemorates the uprising which took place at the Stonewall Inn opposite this park in Sheridan Square in 1969.
The Stonewall Inn at 51-53 Christopher Street was . . . — — Map (db m98727) HM |
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