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Auction: 316 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 1036

NY. Stapleton. Ch.E7290. Richmond Borough National Bank of Stapleton. $10. 1902 PB. Fr. 624. No.N659278E/8126. Plate F. A very rare and important note from this Staten Island village, with only four large notes known. Fine, evenly circulated, with a tight upper margin. Stamped signatures.

Set along the Upper New York Bay in northeastern Staten Island, Stapleton was built in the 1830´s by Manhattan merchant William J. Staples on land once owned by the Vanderbilts. The present-day Paramount Theatre on Bay Street - a popular venue in the early 1980´s for New Wave and Punk bands such as the B-52s, the Squeeze and the Ramones, in fact, sits on the site of the farm where Cornelius Vanderbilt grew up. Between 1929 and 1931, this erstwhile village had its very own NFL pro football team, "the Staten Island Stapletons," while along the waterfront, several of its piers were used from 1937 to 1942 to form the ´ first foreign trade zone in the United States.

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