Yesterday, we mentioned one of the city's most famous trees--long gone--in whose shade twenty-four brokers signed the Buttonwood Agreement, the origins of what would become the New York Stock Exchange.
Today we thought we would remember another famous tree, a pear tree from Holland planted by Peter Stuyvesant in 1647. It would survive for two hundred twenty years on the corner of 13th and 3rd before being struck by a runaway (or badly driven) wagon in 1867.
What store, which opened as a homeopathic pharmacy named after its owner (it is now a cosmetics brand retailer owned by the L'Oreal Group), has occupied Pear Tree Corner since 1851?
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