New Online Archive Shows Colonial New York Was Rowdy, Filthy, Smelly

Saturday, December 20, 2014 - 09:00 in Health & Medicine

New York City now has a trove of 17th-century documents online, including ordinances that depict New Amsterdam as a raucous, drunken, smelly center of commerce.

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