Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis
On the native path, even then an ancient thoroughfare, the rising sun of our early history sees the wondering Manhattan crowding down from the upland regions to the Kapsee rocks, to gaze at the sails of the ship of Verrazano through the vista of the Narrows, and a generation later sees their successors filing down the trail to the place of the fateful bargain when the Manhattan path became a white man's highway.
The shadows of history lengthen over Sachkerah, the old Shore pathway, INDIAN PATHS as the Siwanoy brave pauses at the head of the steep hill leading down to the marshy Acquacanonck to view the approach from the east, of the little band of refugees, leaders of the English incursion which, in spite of all the efforts of the native race, was to displace him as well as the Dutch invader, and to turn the village homes that lay scattered along the path behind him, into the sites of towering tenements.