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1 brief history of Lower Manhattan. From its beginnings as a Dutch trading post, have provided the economic foundation of the and after the island was purchased from the downtown area. Information technology and ,1 Manates Indians, Manhattan has had a long multimedia companies now operate across the and distinguished history as a major center of street from the country's oldest and best known commerce and finance. Named for the wall securities firms, opening up dynamic communi­ that once marked the northern boundary. Wall cations and software development possibilities Street transformed a narrow road formerly for business. This collaborative connection lined with small houses into the world's most heralds a renaissance for Lower Manhattan; dynamic financial center. The waterfront's the center of life for generations of New booming retail and wholesale activity brought Yorkers returns to its former glory with the fashionable New Yorkers to the area to buy Lower Manhattan Revitalization Plan. People jewelry, boots, perfume and more. From the are coming back to Lower Manhattan to live early 1620s to the post-Civil War period. New and to work, recreating the 24-hour environ­ I Yorkers took up residence in what is now Lower ment that has existed downtown during most i! Manhattan. Here they lived and worked, and of its history-and your company can be enjoyed coffee houses, taverns and theater. part of it. They inaugurated the country's first president

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