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Bank Street got its name in this way, the city banks transferring
their business thither literally overnight, ready to do business in
the morning.
Miss Euphemia M. Olcott in her delightful recollections of the past in
New York, gives us some charming snapshots of a still later Greenwich
as she got them from her mother who was born in 1819.
"She often visited in Greenwich Village, both at her
grandfather's and at the house of Mr. Abraham Van Nest,
which had been built and originally occupied by Sir. Peter
Warren. But she never thought of going _so far_ for less
than a week! [She lived at Fulton and Nassau streets.] There
was a city conveyance for part of the way, and then the old
Greenwich stage enabled them to complete the long journey.
This ran several times a day, and when my mother committed
her hymn:
_"'Hasten, sinner, to be wise,
Ere this evening's stage be run'_
she told us that for some years it never occurred to her
that it could mean anything in the world but the Greenwich
stage.
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