31 Desbrosses Street

In NYC, quite literally, there's history around every corner.

Every block, every acre, every inch of this town has a unique and fascinating story all its own, stories that relate to each other (obviously, since they're all in the same town) but also separately because there are so many areas, so many neighborhoods, so many spots, where combinations of people -- businesspeople, community leaders and concerned citizens, elected and government officials along with societal trends, market forces, political decisions, and Mother Nature herself -- shape and re-shape and re-shape them over the years, decades, centuries and millennia.

Volumes could be written about the history of each square mile of NYC.

And one was! A man who grew up at 31 Desbrosses Street in Tribeca wrote a fascinating story about the history of that street and that building going all the way back to the time before Man. It's a fascinating microcosm, a historical thimble, about one place that tell the greater history of NYC and America. It's what you might call the ultimate deep-dive into the ground of NYC.

You should read this article and also listen to the author's interview with Alec Baldwin on his podcast. You'll learn ever more things about this city, thing you never knew you wanted to know.