Nassau Street (Manhattan)
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Nassau Street is a street in the Financial District of the New York City borough of Manhattan, located near Pace University and New York City Hall. It starts at Wall Street and runs north to Frankfort Street at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, lying one block east of Broadway and east of Park Row, which once housed many of the city's newspapers. Late in the 20th century Nassau Street was closed to motor traffic in order to promote shopping.
In the 1920's, stamp collecting became very popular and Nassau Street was the center of New York City's "Stamp District", with dozens of stamp and coin dealers along it's short length. With the decline of the hobby and the dispersal of most dealers in the 1970's, a process that accelerated due to the internet, it no longer holds this character.[1]
Nassau Street was also the title of a book written in the 1960's that described the golden age of the stamp collecting industry.
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- ^ About Subway Stamp Shop, accessed December 4, 2006
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