April 30: John Nicholas Genin


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April 30

John Nicholas Genin, famous hatter on Broadway, opposite St. Paul’s Chapel, died on this date in 1878. It was Genin who proposed a pedestrian bridge to help customers get to his side of that busy thoroughfare (called Loew Bridge, it was built in 1866 and torn down two years later).

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