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 | | In February 1867 carriages colliding at the intersection of Third Avenue and Thirteenth Street mortally wounded a bystander characterized by Harper's New Monthly Magazine as "the oldest living thing in the city of New York." (1) The victim's body was dissected at the scene, causing shock and public mourning. |
 | | Originating from a Holland-grown sapling imported to New Amsterdam for cultivation on Peter Stuyvesant's (1610-1672) "bouwerie," or farm, the venerable tree had withstood two centuries of urbanization as ancestral proof of New York's Dutch past. |
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