what you might not realise about london is that the City is different from london as a whole - it's the bit that was inside the roman wall, well, still is, though the wall is a bit crumbled away now, being as it is 2000 years old.
in 1666 the 'great fire of london' burned down pretty much everything except st paul's. this gave london the opportunity to impose a grid plan instead of the tiny wriggly streets that had grown up since the middle ages. but no, people didn't want it, they wanted their own old plots back, and to...
The Patchogue Bank (now part of the Bank of America conglomerate) was first set-up in 1916, and this is the building they built. It still stands too and in a moment of wisdom the powers that be never painted over/removed...