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New York New Year customs from Peter Stuyvesant to 1914
The piece traces New Year’s Day in New Amsterdam and New York from early prohibitions on gunfire and drum beating to social callings, open houses, and evolving etiquette. It notes the shift from boisterous boisterous neighborly visits to fashionable courting, latenight partying, and eventual police crackdowns in 1890s to 1910s, ending with a calmer 1914 scene.
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Jheras
Peter Stuyvesant
New Netherlands
Bouwers
New York
Washington Irving
New Amsterdam
White Hall
Meri
Toller
Bewu
Papa
Knights of Old
Bery
Philadelphia
Independence Hall
Chestnut Street
Statehouse
Mummer
Broadway
Trinity Church
Old Trinity
Clites