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7) The Friends meeting that Robin had attended was at the old Quaker Meeting House on the edge of Stuyvesant Park, off East 15th Street. Technically, the park wasn't actually named for Peter Stuyvesant, early Manhattan's first Director General, but for his wife, Judith. It would have rankled old Pete to see anything other than a Dutch Reformed Church built on land that was originally part of the Stuyvesant homestead, but the Quakers had wisely waited until 189 years after the Dutchman's death before building their house of worship, so they were spared the pugnacious peg-leg's fabled wrath.
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