The Street That Built a City: McEntee's Chestnut Street, Kingston, and the Rise of New York

The “city” is New York, and the street that built it—or much of it—is on a quiet hilltop overlooking the Hudson River a hundred miles north of New York's harbor. Chestnut Street's first resident was an engineer who helped build the Delaware and Hudson Canal, which brought millions of tons of coal from Pennsylvania to the port at Rondout to be hauled down the Hudson River on barges pulled by steamboats belonging to another Chestnut Street resident to fuel a rapidly growing New York City. Sev...