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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

According to my NYC high school teachers, most of the streets in lower Manhattan were named after big landowners. There are a few streets with female first names [Catherine, Jane, Anne] that were named after the wives/daughters of the great men.