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The Neighborhood - Merchant's House Museum
The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of an Elite Neighborhood The Bond Street area where Seabury Tredwell moved his large family in 1835 had been attracting the city’s wealthiest and most influential citizens since the 1820s. Broadway, a block and a half west of the Tredwells’ new home, was still a residential street. And just …