It never has been cut through, as a matter of fact, to this day.

And by way of evening things up, Grace Church, which stands almost on the disputed site, had for architect one James Renwick, who married the only daughter of Henry Brevoort himself.

So by a queer twisted sort of law of compensation, the city gained rather than lost by what a certain disgruntled historian calls the "obstinacy of one Dutch householder." [Illustration: THE BREVOORT HOUSE.

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The atmosphere of chivalry to women, friendliness to men, and courtesy to everyone, which is, after all, just the air of France."] These things are all true; the most amazing thing about Greenwich Village is that the most unlikely things that you can find out about it are true.