BOWLING GREEN
1699: Stuyvesant’s wall becomes a hindrance to growth and development and is called “a monument to our folly.” Finally taken down, its stones are used to build a new City Hall at Wall and Broad. 1703: A cage, whipping-post, pillory and stocks are placed in front of City Hall. Slaves are regularly given public lashings on Wall Street. An Act for Regulating Slaves allows slaves to receive up to 40 lashes. 1711: A slave market is established on Wall Street at the East River pier. 1712: Slaves set fire to a building (an outhouse?) on Maiden Lane. As a direct result, “An Act for Preventing, Suppressing, and Punishing the Conspiracy and Insurrection of Negroes and other Slaves” is passed by Congress. 1715: Stuyvesant’s “White Hall” mansion is destroyed by fire.
MONEY
MEN (IE) to think
MONERE ( L) to bring to mind
MONESTARE
MNEMOSUNE
(VL)
( G) goddess of memory
MONESTER (OF)
MON+IMENTUM
MONUMENT
MONETA ( R) juno, the warner
MONESTEN (ME)
MONETA MYNET
ADMONISH ( E)
MONETA MYNT MONNAIE MINT
MONEY
BOWLING GREEN + MONEY a dutchman buys manhattan with jewelry. see mind. the guard. fort amsterdam at its foot. the Latin root, to think, acquires the causative derivative (root), to cause someone to think (hence, to remember). the guard remembers. first there is a hog and cattle market, then it becomes a parade ground. hence to call someone’s attention to, especially as injunction. you’re too close; stand back. then a poison gas and yellow police tape. colonial notables use it for lawn bowling, thus the name. washington, everywhere at that time, bowls. whence Vulgar Latin, Old French, Middle English (? after) ‘to’ now archaic. royal crowns stud the top of the fence pickets, then disappear during the revolution. on stem of the past participle, arise, oblique stem, whence (probably via Medieval French) the English adopted whence. his breath is different now, shallow with a short cough that exaggerates with nerves. a statue of king george is melted down for bullets. the greek goddess of memory adopted by romans became epithet of juno= “the warner.” the guard is the connection that nobody notices, the faint red dotted line that stretches to all hubs. the fort becomes the government house, the first white house, never used because of a deal with philadelphia. hence, juno’s temple at rome, guardian of finances. the government house becomes seven elegant row houses, which then become shipping company offices, thanks to fulton’s invention. thence coinage being struck there, a mint, hence the minting process. he’s at the bottom of a long ramp, sitting at a desk below the vacant houses. the shipping offices become the custom house, designed by cass gilbert at the turn of the 20th century. hence coins, money, cash flow. he no longer needs air; tracks the body on etched glass or through an interior telescope. the collection of revenue, the registration of international commerce at sea.
the body, hardly substance, empties a safe deposit box. the derivative Later Latin adjective accounts for English = French whence ‘to’, whence.
WILLIAM
1752: The New York Mercury is published by Hugh Gaine as a Royalist paper. After the revolution he starts to print books, including Robinson Crusoe. 1754: The city’s first library opens in City Hall. Classes are taught at King’s College, located at Trinity Church; King’s College later becomes Columbia University. 1757: Etienne de Lancey’s grandson turns the house on Pearl Street into a store. 1762: The Wall Street slave market is abolished and lighted lamps are installed on the streets. Sam Fraunces, a West Indian (part French part African), buys the store that used to be Etienne de Lancey’s house and opens the Queens Head Tavern on Pearl Street. 1776: 150 patriots with fife and drum corps, “invade” Trinity church services because the rector is a Loyalist and refuses to omit the prayer to the crown. Wall Street is fortified once again, this time by George Washington, using slave labor. Washington opposes recruiting slaves or free blacks to fight for the patriot cause. The British, however, have no such reservations and create slave regiments and workforces. 1776: When the British occupy the area, Wall Street becomes their headquarters and City Hall is turned into a prison. The Presbyterian Church where Jonathan Edwards had once preached (located at Wall near Nassau Street), becomes a hospital. Houses deteriorate and trees are cut down for firewood. A fire begins near Whitehall that destroys a quarter of the city. Trinity Church burns down. 1783: Revolution ends. Wall Street is a mess—trashed and deserted. Alexander Hamilton moves to Wall Street. Washington Irving is born on William Street.
PANIC
PUSAN (SKT) increaser of herds
PAON (ARCADIAN)
PAION/PAN (GR)
PANIKON
PANIKON DEIMA
(GR)
fear caused by Pan
PANIQUE (FR)
PANIC ( E)
WILLIAM + PANIC the three boys drag out from the bloody water and automatically heal in fog. the smith street, smee street, smit street, suice street, de smee street, burghers path, burger jorisens path, king street, the glass makers’ street, berger joris street, borisens path and william. during her interrogation blackout a chip had been placed on her right scapula. pan, whence panpipes; panic, adj. whence noun (whence panicky), whence verb. the south end called mill street. as the radio frequencies in her blood transmit the communications of the three boys, the scapula chip transmits her whereabouts to them. the noun panic probably owes something to Greek to panikon deima, fear caused by pan. the frequencies keep her running in complicated patterns through irregular streets. all now called william for william beekman who arrives early with stuyvesant. often elliptically to panikon: panikon is the neuter of adjective panikos, of pan. the splinters regroup and gather, coagulate into wax, the blubbery flesh of the circulating body returns on etched glass. his farm land stretches from nassau to the east river, a block above and below. whence Early Modern French-French panique (whence the noun panique), whence the English adjective panic. washington irving is born here in 1783. he coins the phrase the “almighty dollar.” the body reports to the guard beneath the vacant houses: her blood frequencies aren’t doing the trick, she’ll need a better connection. Greek panikos is the adjective of pan (itself duly adopted by Latin, hence by English). the first synagogue. and Greek pan, var paion, arkadian paon, perhaps derives from Sanskrit pusan, a Vedic god, the protector and increaser of herds. the guard loads the relay split into the gun barrel, pushes himself wearily from his desk. it always comes to this. the corner of william and john is golden hill, where the first blood of the revolution begins to run. arcadia is peace, simplicity, bucolic bliss.
he slowly ascends the ramp, squints up into the light. as soon as he’s out the door, an arm pulls him around the neck from behind. at the corner of william and pearl is carleton house, where charles dickens stays during his first visit to america, 1842. the greeks thought that frightening noises in the woods (the vague fear of things unknown) were caused by the great god pan who dwelt in the forest, and his name gave them the phrase “the panic fear.” the relay split shatters out, changes weather patterns, dismembers the arm. hail turns the neighborhood into a graphic field and he follows a vector out of the cloud. dickens is almost 30 when washington irving urges him to come. rumors and rush are signs of panic. into the sun, he shakes off the moisture. “all classes and conditions joined hands to welcome Dickens” the field is a surface, a flat-bed, paper. the crowd of traders loses its dimension and folds towards the horizon so that he sees only four still standing—one slightly ahead of the three catching up from behind. causing stock values to fall and some banks to fail, as investments and savings are hastily withdrawn.
MAIDEN
1784: Alexander Hamilton creates the Bank of New York on Pearl Street. After the Bank moves, the building hosts the first organization against slavery, The Society for the Manumission of Slaves, of which Hamilton is a member. Hamilton owns slaves until his death. 1786: The first financial panic. Hardly any cash circulates and credit is suspended. 1787: An ordinance passed by the first Continental Congress dedicates the Northwest to freedom. 1788: Washington is inaugurated in Federal Hall on Wall Street. Washington Irving, six years old, is in the crowd watching the proceedings. 1789: The Supreme Court is created. John Jay is first chief justice. New York is a center for speculating in securities. 1790: Congress issues 80 million dollars in bonds. A market is created under a buttonwood tree (now 68 Wall St.) for public sale of the stock. Stuyvesant’s City Hall (once City Tavern) is demolished. Trinity Church, rebuilt, is consecrated. Fort Amsterdam at Bowling Green is turned into the Government House, which later becomes the Customs House. A petition calling for the abolition of slavery is submitted to Congress. 1792: The traders formalize their association with the Buttonwood Agreement at 68 Wall Street. This is the beginning of the New York Stock Exchange.
PROFIT
PRO
FACERE
forward
to make, to do
PROFICERE
FACTUS
to progress
PROFECTUS
FACTUM
improvement
PROFIT
PROFIT
FACT
MAIDEN + PROFIT as maagde paatje, it is a footpath used by lovers along a rippling brook. the three behind have their weapons drawn on the one disguised as a simple person. adopted from Old French-French, derives from Old French-French, whence English. Dutch women wash their clothes in the stream that runs through. they are flat and moving like paper ducks at the fair, a firing range of fact. Old French derives from Old French-French, whence the English noun. the guard stands in a field that breaks into layers; he is hidden in thick surface. in 1712 slaves set fire to a building, perhaps an outhouse and Old French derives from the Latin noun for advance, improvement, profit. whites are ambushed, 8 are killed from, past participle of, to progress, hence to yield a profit. 13 slaves hang, one starves to death, one burns at the stake, another “broken on the wheel.” forward, combining form of, to make, for anterior etymology, factus, factum, fact. then “an act for preventing suppressing and punishing the conspiracy and insurrection of negroes and other slaves.” the market soars in the name of projected commerce. see prophet? open the door or we will open the door. under their breath. they’ve got her now, lanterns threaten outside the small shack near the slip. free blacks cannot transfer land to heirs. from Greek pro, before and phetes, speaker from phanai, to speak. she evaluates her stolen goods; the network key combined with the right object will cause a circuit to ignite. the slave market at coffee slip in 1735 thrives. the body approaches the boys, hardly substance. through Later Latin prophetia and Old French prophecie came English prophecy. in 1850 “blackbirders” flourish along the east river. the tools of their trade sliver the body without hesitation; they must keep to the task at hand. the body slivers deep into the water, deeper now. Greek prophetes came to mean interpreter. slave-running as transaction.
the guard sees each figure as a separate layer and aims the relay split. the boys become thin as paper against their will: translucent, veined, and watermarked. in an unexpected turn of events they slide under the door with ease. one’s profit (as when one is prophetic of the market) is via Old French profit from Latin. a corridor of jewelry sales followed by trade and manufacturing. she sees papers slide under her door and thinks they must be messages from the connection. she picks them up.