![]() ![]() "She achieved a kind of early form of what we would today recognize as being famous just for the sake of being famous," said author Daniel Stashower. Mary Rogers was a 21-year-old woman, who, at the time of her death, was already famous in New York City for simply being herself. ![]() They always talk about that the body of Mary Rogers was found floating in the river, just off of Sybil's Cave." "Word was spreading pretty quickly that, you know, Mary Rogers has been murdered. Then one day way back in 1841, Sybil's Cave became infamous for another reason. "People would come over to this side of the river on the weekends, especially to get fresh air," said Hoboken Historical Museum director Bob Foster.īack in the mid-1800s New York City was mostly powered by coal and in the summer it often became a sweltering and dirty mess. ![]()
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