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TO THE
CITY AND ENVIRONS
WITH
MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS
Copyright, 1917
by Rand McNally & Co.
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BY TAKING THE
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'Bus
you can reach most easily and conveniently the places of great interest
in New York.
The Riverside Drive Route
Buses numbered 5. Runs both from Washington Square and from
Pennsylvania Station up Fifth Ave. to 57th St.. crosses over to
Broadway, passes the Maine Memorial at Columbus Circle e.nd
reaches Riverside Drive at 72nd Street. From this point on until the
return to Broadway at 135th St. you are afforded a continuous out-
look upon the Hudson River and man-of-war anchorage, while passing
the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument at 89th St., Columbia University at
1 16th to 120th Sts., Grant's Tomb at 123d St., and historic Claremont.
The Washington Square — St. Nicholas Avenue-
Polo Grounds Route
Buses numbered 2 and 3. Takes you the length of Fifth Avenue
from Washington Square to 1 10th St., with its ever changing panorama
of shops, hotels, public buildings and magnificent residences — the
famous "Millionaires Row." At 59th Street you come to the entrance
of Central Park, then you ride northward with the Park on your left
for its entire length, passing the Metropolitan Museum of Art at
82nd St. At 1 10th St. the Bus crosses to Manhattan Ave., giving a
glimpse of the imposing Cathedral of St. John the Divine and the
buildings cf Columbia University, subsequently skirting St. Nicholas
Park, with the College of the City of New York, on the way to the
Polo Grounds at 1 55th St.
The Cathedral Parkway and Riverside Drive Route
Buses numbered 4. Crosses over 32nd Street from the Pennsyl-
vania Station to Fifth Ave., passes the Public Library at 40th St. to
42nd St., takes you within a block of the Grand Central Terminal
and goes by St. Patrick's Cathedral at 50th St. and St. Thomas's
Church at 53rd St. This route continues along the famous Avenue
to Cathedral Parkway which it follows to Riverside Drive, affording
a view of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Columbia University
and the features of Riverside Drive from 1 10th St. to 135th St.
Other routes of the Bus Lines make it possible for you to reach every part of the
city in comfort— "Open air to everywhere." and you will find the service typified by
a courtesy that is as pronounced a feature as is the freedom from crowding which
travel on the Fifth Avenue Bus insures for its patrons.
Fifth Avenue Coach Company
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CONTENTS
GREATER NEW YORK . . 5
ARRIVING AT NEW YOKK . 7
BAGGAGE TRANSFER FA-
CILITIES 7
CARRIAGE AND TAXICAB
FACILITIES .... 8
THE BRIDGES .... 8
SURFACE CARS . . .12
ELEVATED RAILWAYS . 24
UNDERGROUND RAILWAYS 27
THE TUNNELS ... 28
FIFTH AVENUE COACH
LINES 30
STEAMSHIP LINES' PIERS . 31
FERRIES 36
PLACES OF AMUSEMENT . 38
RAILROAD STATIONS . . 39
MANHATTAN AND THE
BRCNX 40
SIGHT-SEEING .... 40
HOTELS 41
TELEGRAPH HEADQUAR-
TERS 42
POST OFFICE . . . .42
BROADWAY .... 43
FIFTH AVENUE ... 46
WALL STREET ... 48
BIG BUILDINGS . . .51
PLACES OF INTEREST . 57
PARKS AND DRIVES . . 62
LIBRARIES AND ART
GALLERIES .... 79
EDUCATIONAL .... 89
COLLEGES, ACADEMIES AND
PRIVATE SCHOOLS . . 94
CLUBS AND SOCIETIES . 97
CITY GOVERNMENT
BUILDINGS .... 100
FINANCIAL AND COM-
MERCIAL .... 107
PROMINENT CHURCHES . 109
HOSPITALS AND PHILAN-
THROPIC SOCIETIES . 115
BROOKLYN AND QUEENS 117
THEATERS IN BROOKLYN 118
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS . .119
PROMINENT CHURCHES
IN BROOKLYN . . . 120
COLLEGES, ACADEMIES AND
PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN
BROOKLYN . . . .120
PROSPECT PARK .' . .121
GREENWOOD CEMETERY 122
NAVY YARD . . . .124
RICHMOND 124
STATEN ISLAND . . .124
THE ISLANDS . . . .125
CONEY ISLAND . . .126
BRIGHTON 127
MANHATTAN BEACH . .127
ROCKAWAY . . . .127
ENVIRONS 127
JERSEY CITY . . . .128
HOBOKEN 128
WEEHAWKEN .... 129
LONG ISLAND . . . .129
ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS . 129
LONG BRANCH . . . 130
ASBURY PARK . . . 130
OCEAN GROVE . . .130
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SEEING GREATER NEW YORK RIGHT
Our winter service equipment consists of fourteen passenger
pneumatic tired, glass side and roof automobiles, properly
heated and electric lighted.
For the summer service we operate fourteen passenger, pneu-
matic tired, side-door cars exclusively; twelve-inch upholster-
ing insuring the same comfort as in private touring car.
Our trip takes you through the Up-town District by the
Fifth Avenue homes of the millionaires. Central Park,
Grant's Tomb and Riverside Drive skirting the beautiful
Hudson River., Along the famous cafe and theatrical section
of Broadway. Through the financial district. Wall Street
the Curb Market, and the old Dutch part of New York
Over Brooklyn Bridge, by Plymouth Church, and othei
interesting points in Brooklyn, returning to New York by tht
new Manhattan Bridge; wonderful views of New York's
marvelous sky line and the harbor. Through the Bowery,
Ghetto, Slums and East Side, including many interesting
sights in Chinatown.
Stops at Grant's Tomb and the Aquarium.
This tour is practically three trips in one, consuming in
time nearly four hours and the fare is only $2.50.
We also operate evening and night trips.
ROYAL BLUE LINE CO., Inc.
Office and Starting Point: HOTEL McALPIN
Phone Greeley 752 33rd Street and Broadway
Royal Blue Line Cars are also operated in Boston, Washington, Philadelphia,
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CONTENTS— Continued
Academy of the Sacred Heart 90
American Museum of Natural History 91
Appellate Court House 105
Aquarium 64
Arriving at New York 7
Art Association, Brooklyn 119
Art Galleries 84
Arthur, President, Statue 70
Arverne 129
Asbury Park 130
Assay Office, The 50
Association for Improving Condi-
tions of the Poor 117
Atlantic Highlands 129
Babylon , 129
Baggage Incoming 7
Baggage Outgoing 8
Barge Office 62
Barnard Annex 93
Battery, The 62
Battery Park. 62
Baxter Street 60
Bay Shore 129
3eecher, Henry Ward, Statue, Brook-
lyn •. 117
3ellevue Hospital 115
3ig Buildings 51
•Blackwell's Island 126
Blue Point 129
botanical Gardens 77
Bowery 59
fowling Green 64
Bridge of Sighs 103
"Brighton 127
Jroadway 43
ironx Park 77
irooklyn 117
Brooklyn Bridge 8
Brooklyn Heights 119
-rooklyn Library 119
Brooklyn Navy Yard 124
Bryant, Wm. Cullen, Home 62
Carriages 8
' "astle Garden 63
» Cathedral of St. John the Divine. . . in
Caution to Travelers 8
Central Avenue 78
Central Park 70
Chamber of Commerce 107
Chinatown 58
Church of the Pilgrims, Dr. Dewey,
Brooklyn 119
Churches in Brooklyn 120
Churches in Manhattan 109
City Government Buildings 100
City Hall 100
City Hall Park 65
Claremont 74
" Cleopatra's Needle" 70
Clubs and Societies in Manhattan. . . 97
Clubs in Brooklyn, Leading 119
College of the City, of New York 89
Colleges, Academies and Private
Schools in Brooklyn 120
Colleges, Academies and Private
Schools in Manhattan 94
CaVumbia University 92
Ci ley Island 126
£c Tikling, Roscoe, Statue 70
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Consolidated Petroleum and Stock
Exchange 108
Cooper, Peter, Statue 62
Cooper Union 83
Cotton Exchange 109
Criminal Courts 103
Curb Market 108
Custom House 107
De Peyster, Abraham, Statue 65
Eastchester 128
Edgemere 129
Educational 89
Elevated Railways 24
Ellis Island 125
Emergency Hospital 116
Equitable Building 39
Ericsson, John 62
Ericsson, John, Statue 62
Faculty of Medicine 91
Farragut Memorial 70
Ferries 36
Fifth Avenue 46
Fifth Avenue Coach Lines 30
Fifth Ave. Presbyterian Church.... 112
First Presbyterian Church 112
Financial and Commercial 107
Five Points House of Industry 1 16
Five Points Mission 116
Flat Iron Building
Forty-seven Broad Street
Fourth Ave. Church 113
Franklin, Benjamin, Statue 66
Fraunces' Tavern 61
General Mechanics and Tradesmen's
Library 84
Gingko Tree 75
Governor's Island 126
Grace Church 112
Gramercy Park 66
Grand Central Terminal Si
Grant Statue, Brooklyn 123
Grant's Tomb 74
Grave of an Amiable Child 76
Greater New York 5
Boroughs of 5
Greeley , Horace, Statue 66
Greenwood Cemetery 122
Hall of Fame. . . , 90
Hall of Records 105
Hamilton, Alexander, died 62
Hamilton, Alexander, Statue 70
Hen Gate Bridge 11
Hamilton-Burr Duel 129
High Bridge n
Hoboken 128
Hoffman Island 126
Holy Trinity Church, Dr. Melish,
Brooklyn 119
Hospitals and Philanthropic Societies 115
Hotels in Manhattan 41
Hudson Terminal Buildings 54
Irving, Washington, Bust 62
Irving, Washington, lived 62
Islands 125
Islip 129
Jersey City 128
John St. M. E. Church H3
Joss House 58
5* Judea" 60
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One of the Most Beautifully Appointed Hotels in
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Grand Foyer for Ladies and Gentlemen /Veu ly Added on Ground Floor.
800 ROOMS, ALL WITH BATHS
Highest Standards. Moderate Prices. Central Location
near Shops and Theatres. One block from
Elevated and Subway Stations.
ROOM AND BATH, one person $2.00 and up
ROOM AND BATH, two persons 3.00 and up
PARLOR, BEDROOM AND BATH 5.00 and up
Special rates to permanent guests.
GEORGE H. NEWTON, Manager
Formerly of Fifth Ave. Hotel, New York, and Parker House, Boston.
RAND McNALLY NEW YORK GUIDE
CONTENTS— Continued
Jumel Mansion
Kidd, Captain, lived
Lafayette, lived
Leading Clubs of Brooklyn
Libraries and Art Galleries
Lincoln, Statue
"Little Church, 'round the Corner,"
" The
Long Beach
Long Branch
Long Island
Long Island Coast
Long Island Historical Society
Madison Ave. Church
Madison Square
Madison Square Garden
Maine Monument
Mall, The (Central Park)
Manhattan and the Bronx
Manhattan Beach
Manhattan Bridge
Manhattan College
Manhattan Island
Mercantile Library
Metropolitan Life Building
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Morgan, J. P. & Co.
Morgue
Morningside Park
Mount Morris Park
Mount St. Vincent Convent School . .
Mount Vernon
Mulberry Bend
Municipal Building
Museum of Natural History
Museum of the Brooklyn Institute . .
Navy Yard
New Bank Clearing House
New Rochelle
New York Historical Society
New York Public Library
New York Stock Exchange
Normal College
Obelisk, The
Ocean Grove
Paine, Tom, lived
Paine, Tom, died
Park Carriages
"Parkhurst's" Church
Parks and Drives
Pelham
Pelham Bay Park
Pennsylvania Station
Pilgrim Fathers, Statue
Places of Amusement in Manhattan .
Places of Interest
Players Club House, The
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn
Poe Cottage
Population
Post Office, Manhattan
Printing House Square
Produce Exchange
Prohibition Park, Staten Island
Prominent Churches in Brooklyn ....
Prominent Churches in Manhattan . .
Prospect Park (Brooklyn)
Public Library
Queensboro Bridge
Railroad Stations in Manhattan
Randall, Richard, Captain
Randall's Island
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Richmond 124
Riverside Park 72
Rockaway 127
Russian Quarter 60
Sailor's Snug Harbor 125
St. Francis Xavier's 80
St. John's College 89
St. Marks Church | XIa
St. Nicholas Avenue 78
St. Patrick's Cathedral 113
St. Paul's Church and Churchyard. . in
Seward, Wm. H., Statue 70
Sherman, Gen. Wm. T., Statue 70
Sight-Seeing 40
Singer Building 57
Society for Prevention of Crime 117
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals 117
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children 117
Soldiers and Sailors Monument.... 72
Southern Boulevard 78
Speedway 78
Staten Island 124
Statue of Liberty 57
Statue of Nathan Hale 65
Steamship Lines' Piers 31
Stock Exchange 107
Stuyvesant Square 66
Sub-treasury, The 51
Subways 27
Surface Cars 12
Swinburne Island 126
Taxicabs 8
Taylor, Bayard, Home 62
Teachers' College and Horace Mann
School 93
Telegraph Headquarters 42
Temple Emanu-El 113
Theaters in Brooklyn 118
Third Collegiate Church 109
Tombs 103
Trinity Church 109
Trinity Churchyard no
Tunnels 28
Underground Railways 27
Union Square 68
Union Theological Seminary 90
University of the City of New York . . 90
Van Cortlandt Park 76
Victory Arch, Prospect Park,
Brooklyn 121
Wall Street 48
Washington, Statue 51
Washington, Statue 68
Washington, Statue by Houdin 73
Washington Arch 69
Washington Bridge n
Washington Square 68
Waterways 5
Webster, Daniel, Once the home of 62
Weehawken 129
West Brighton Beach 127
Westchester 127
Williamsburg Bridge 9
Woolworth Building 55
Worth, Gen. William Jenkins, Statue 70
Yonkers 127
Young Men's Christian Association. . 117
Young Women 's Christian Association 117
Zoological Garden 77
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Woolworth Building
Broadway, Park Place, Barclay St.
Page 55
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Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty
1 '/• miles from the Battery
Page 57
GREATER NEW YORK
Greater New York has an
area of 327.25 sq. miles -and is
the largest city in the world in
this respect; in population it
ranks second. New York con-
sists of five boroughs:
Manhattan, the original New
York City (an island), and
Blackwell's, Ward's, Governor's,
and Randall's islands, has a
total area of 22 sq. miles.
The Bronx, the mainland
north of Manhattan Island, and
North Brother, South Brother,
Rikers, City, Rodman, Hunter,
and Harts islands, has a total
area of 40 . 5 sq. miles.
Brooklyn, a portion of Long
Island, Coney Island (on which
are located the Brighton beaches
and Manhattan Beach), and a
number of islands in Jamaica
Bay, has a total area of 77.5
sq. miles.
Queens, a portion of Long
Island, which includes Rock-
away Beach and numerous small
islands in Jamaica Bay, has a
total area of 130 sq. miles.
Richmond, Staten Island,
has an area of 57.25 sq. miles.
The waterways in and
around Greater New York are
the Harlem River, the north-
eastern boundary of Manhattan,
separating this borough from
the Bronx; Hudson River, on
the west of Manhattan and
the Bronx, separating them
NOTE: The areas stated above include
land and water.
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from the New Jersey shore; East River, east of Manhattan
and the Bronx, and Long Island Sound, south of the Bronx,
separating those boroughs from Queens and Brooklyn; to the
south, Upper New York Bay, and The Narrows, between
Brooklyn and Richmond; Newark Bay, Kill van Kull, Arthur
Kill, and Raritan Bay, separating Richmond from New Jersey;
Lower Bay and the Atlantic Ocean south of Brooklyn, and
Jamaica Bay, southeast of Brooklyn and south of Queens.
Numerous other bays indent the shores of the several boroughs.
The total water front of Greater New York is 341.22 miles;
Lower New York Bay and adjacent inland waters cover about
88 sq. miles, and Upper Bay about 1 5 sq. miles. The harbor
is one of the largest and best of the world's great ports. The
Hudson River is navigable for 150 miles, and East River leads
through Long Island Sound to the Atlantic Ocean and all the
world beyond.
Population. The total population of the city is about
4,985,000, and the rapidity of its growth is graphically told by
comparison. From 1901 to 1909 London increased in popu-
lation 1.53 per cent per year; Paris, 0.48 per cent per year;
Berlin, 1.44 per cent per year; New York, 3.32 per cent per year.
From 1890 to 1910 the population of Brooklyn increased
100 per cent, the total in 1910 being 1,634,351. During the
same period the Bronx increased from 88,908 inhabitants to
430,980; Queens from 87,050 to 284,041; and Richmond from
51,693 to 85,969.
The contiguous territory, the inhabitants of which go in
and out of Manhattan each day, has a population about three
fourths as great as that of the city itself.
Manhattan Island. In 1626 Manhattan Island was bought
from the Indians for goods valued at $24. In 1912 the
assessed value of real estate in the city was $7,861,898,890.
The borough of Manhattan contains the great business and
amusement centers. The peculiar dimensions of Manhattan
Island, with an extreme length of about 10 miles and a maxi-
mum width of but 2 miles, make it in itself a city of great
distances, yet its area is less than 7 per cent of the total area
of Greater New York.
In the southern end of this island, in the vicinity of Wall
St., is the financial district, with its banking institutions,
insurance companies, railroad offices, and industrial corpora-
tions. The big department stores with their thousands of
employees, the mammoth hotels, the theaters, and the rail-
way stations are located in the middle section of Manhattan
Borough; and farther north the residence sections extend all
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Bowling Green
Page 107
the way to the borough of the Bronx. Apart from these boroughs
the largest residential sections in Greater New York are Brook-
lyn and Queens.
Transportation facilities completed since 1900 include
three new bridges (all larger than the original Brooklyn Bridge)
crossing East River to Brooklyn, nine tunnels under that river,
and four tunnels under the Hudson River. The cost of these
improvements was $450,000,000, and plans now accepted for
additional means of transportation will entail an expenditure of
$300,000,000.
ARRIVING AT NEW YORK
Railroad tickets reading via New York to points beyond
contain a coupon entitling the holder to ride in transfer coaches
(which meet all the great express trains) between railway
stations, between stations and ferries, or to any hotel or other
suitable stopping-place between these points.
Incoming Baggage. On all important trains, when approach-
ing the city, a responsible uniformed solicitor passes through
the coaches. He will take your checks, give you a receipt, and
deliver your baggage to any part of Manhattan, Brooklyn, or
Jersey City. Payment may be made in advance or on receipt
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of the baggage. Ordi-
nary baggage, such as a
steamer trunk, may be
taken with you on cabs,
carriages , or taxicabs .
Hotels send for your
baggage promptly.
Caution. Never give
up your checks to any
one but a uniformed
train solicitor, or to a
regular office agent, or a
porter of either the trans-
portation company hold-
ing the baggage or of
the express company to
which you mean to
intrust it. Always take
a receipt. If you your-
self claim your baggage,
never give up your checks
to any person except the
uniformed baggagemen
of the railway or steam-
boat line by which you
have traveled. If you are going to a hotel, or expect to meet
or visit friends residing in the city, it would be best probably
to keep your checks and let the hotel employee or your friends
arrange for the delivery of your baggage.
Outgoing Baggage. By previous arrangement, an express-
man will call at your house and take your baggage to any
station. The transfer company will check your baggage from
the house to your destination in any part of the country, so
that you need have no trouble with it at the railway station.
You must have bought your railway ticket in advance.
Carriages and Taxicabs for hire will be found at all rail-
road stations. When engaging a conveyance a distinct under-
standing should be had as to the charge, so that at the end
of the trip there may be no dispute about the payment.
THE BRIDGES
Brooklyn Bridge, the first bridge to span the East River,
has its termini in City Hall Park, Manhattan ; and at Sands &
Washington Sts., Brooklyn. Work on the construction of this
bridge started in January, 1870, and the bridge was opened to
America
Custom House
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Brooklyn Bridge
City Hall Park, Manhattan Sands Street, Brooklyn
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traffic in May, 1883. When completed it was considered one of
the seven v-ronders of the world, and even today there are but few
similar structures surpassing it in size and none in architec-
tural beauty. No "stranger within the gates" can claim to
have really, seen New York unless he has ridden or walked
across this bridge, preferably the latter. An idea of the size of
the bridge may be obtained from the following: length over
all, 5889 ft., river span, 1595^ ft., each land span, 930 ft.,
Manhattan approach, 1562^2 ft., Brooklyn approach, 971 ft.,
height above river, 135 ft. in the center, 119^ ft- at either
tower, width, 85 ft.
Williamsburg Bridge. The phenomenal growth of
Greater New York made additional bridges between the two
principal boroughs imperative. Plans were drawn and work on
the first of a trio of mammoth bridges was commenced in
October, 1896, and finished in December, 1903. Williamsburg
Bridge extends from Clinton & Delancy Sts., Manhattan, to
Havemeyer St. & Broadway, Brooklyn. Its entire length is
7200 ft., that of the main span 1600 ft., width over all, 118 ft.,
height above the river, 135 ft. in the center, 121 ft. at either
tower.
Queensboro Bridge. The second bridge of the trio to be
built was that between the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens
from 59th & 6oth Sts., Manhattan, across Blackwells Island to
Jane St., Long Island City. The style of Queensboro Bridge
is materially different from that of its predecessors, they being
of the supension type and this of the cantilever. Construc-
tion was commenced in July, 1901, and the bridge opened to
traffic in 1909. Its total length is 8601 ft., west channel span
1 1 82 ft ., east channel span 984 ft. The bridge may be reached
by trolley cars operated from the foot of W. 42d St., via 42d
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Williamsburg Bridge
Delancy and Clinton Sts., Manhattan Broadway, Brooklyn
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St. & Third Ave., or by any of the following lines: Second
Ave. elevated to 57th St., Third Ave. elevated to 59th St., sub-
way, Sixth & Ninth Ave. elevated to 59th St., thence cross-
town trolley.
Manhattan Bridge, the last of this trio, and since the
advent of subways, to bridge the East River, extends from the
Queensboro Bridge
E. 59th St. and Second Ave., Manhattan Blackwell's Island Long Island City
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Bowery & Canal St., Manhattan, to Nassau & Bridge Sts.,
Brooklyn. Work on the Manhattan Bridge was begun in 1901
and the bridge opened to foot passengers in December, 1909.
A noticeable feature of this bridge is its steel open-work
towers, which give it a fairy-like appearance when contrasted
with the massive stone towers of the other bridges.
Hell Gate Bridge (now under construction), from an
engineering standpoint, is probably the greatest of all the East
River bridges. It extends from East I4ist St., Bronx, across
Randall's Island and Ward's Island to Astoria, L. I.
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Manhattan Bridge
Bowery and Canal St., Manhattan
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Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn
This Bridge over Hell Gate will enable through passengers
to proceed without making a change at New York on transcon-
tinental journeys, and will also save considerable time in the
transit of through freight across New York City. It will be
operated by what is known as the New York Connecting
E. 141st Street, Bronx
Hell Gate Bridge
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Astoria, Long Island
Railroad, a line that joins the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad system with the Pennsylvania Lines.
Washington Bridge. The boroughs of Manhattan and
Bronx are connected by a massive cantilever bridge extending
from iSist St., Manhattan, to Aqueduct Ave., Bronx.
High Bridge. Just south of Washington Bridge is High
Bridge, carrying the Croton Aqueduct of New York City's
water supply into Manhattan. This bridge is available only to
foot passengers and extends from Aqueduct Ave. to I74th St.
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SURFACE CARS
One of the cheapest and easiest ways to see New York is
to spend a day or two riding over the various trolley lines,
particularly during mild weather, when the so-called summer
or open cars are in service.
NEW YORK RAILWAYS COMPANY'S LINES
Office, 165 Broadway. Lost Property Office, 820 Eighth
Ave.
Ninth Ave. Line. Leaves ft. Cortlandt St., runs through
Cortlandt St. to Greenwich, to Ninth Ave., to 53d St. Returns
by same route to Gansevoort St., to Washington St., to ft.
Cortlandt St.
Leaves ft. Christopher St., runs through Christopher St.
to Greenwich, to Ninth Ave., to 53d St. Returns by same
route to Gansevoort St., to Washington St., to ft. Chris-
topher St.
Eighth Ave. Line. Leaves ft. Whitehall St., runs through
Battery PL to Greenwich St., to Trinity PL, to Church St.,
to Barclay St., to W. Broadway, to Canal St., to Hudson St.
Bowling Green
Looking North on Broadway
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Looking North from Whitehall Builuing
to Eighth Ave., to Macombs Lane, to Harlem River and
Central Bridge. Also by same route to Eighth Ave., to isgth
St., and Harlem River. Returns by same route to W. Broadway,
to Fulton St., to Church St., to Trinity PI., to Greenwich St.,
to Battery PI., to State St., to ft. Whitehall St.
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Branch Line. Leaves ft. Cortlandt St., to Greenwich
St., to W. Broadway, then by same route as above; south-
bound cars use Dey and Washington Sts.
Seventh Ave. Line. Leaves Sixth Ave. and 8th St., runs
through Greenwich St. to Seventh Ave., to 59th St., return-
ing by same route. Some of the cars of the Brooklyn Branch,
8th St. line, are operated northbound on Greenwich St. and
Seventh Ave. to 59th St., returning to Brooklyn over same
route as other 8th St. cars from junction Greenwich St. and
8th St.
Sixth & Amsterdam Ave. Line. Leaves ft. Whitehall St.,
runs through Battery PI. to Greenwich St., to Trinity PL, to
Church St., to Barclay St., to W. Broadway, to 4th St., to
Sixth Ave., to 53d St., to Ninth Ave., to Columbus Ave., to
65th St., to Broadway, to yist St., to Amsterdam Ave., to
1 25th St. & Broadway. Some cars continue on Sixth Ave.
from 53d to 59th Sts., returning by same route to 3d St., to
W. Broadway, to Fulton St., to Church St., to Trinity PL, to
Greenwich St., to Batteiy PL, to State St., to ft. Whitehall St.
Broadway Lines.
Leave ft. Whitehall St., run
through Whitehall St. to
Broadway, to 45th St., to
Seventh Ave., to 59th St.
(Central Park). Return by
same route to Broadway, to
StateSt.,to ft/Whitehall St.
Columbus Ave. Line.
Runs through Whitehall St.
to Broadway, to 45th St., to
Seventh Ave., to W. 53d St.,
to Ninth Ave., to Colum-
bus Ave., to i ogth St., to
Manhattan Ave., to n6th
St., to Lenox Ave., to I46th
St. Returns by same route
to State St., to ft. White-
hall St.
Lexington Ave. Line.
Leaves Bowling Green,
runs through Whitehall St.
to Broadway, to 23d St., to
Cotton Exchange Lexington Av6., tO 1 1 6th
Broad near William Street St., to LenOX Ave., tO 1 46th
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Fraunces' Tavern
Broad and Pearl Sts
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on Lexington Ave. to
!3istSt.). Returns by
same route to State
St., Bowling Green.
Broadway&Am-
sterdam Ave. Line.
Leaves Broadway &
Houston St., runs
through Broadway to
45th St., to Seventh
Ave., to 53d St., to
Ninth Ave., to Colum-
bus Ave., to Broad-
way, to Amsterdam
Ave., to 1 25th St. &
Broadway. Returns
by same route.
Canal St. Gross-
town Line. Leaves
Hudson St., between
Broomed Watts Sts.,
runs through Hudson
St. to Canal St., to Center St., to Walker St. Returns by
same route.
Fourth Ave. & Madison Line. Leaves Post Office, runs
through Park Row to Center St., to Grand St., to Bowery, to
Fourth Ave., to E. 42d St., to Madison* Ave., to I35th St.
Returns by Madison Ave. to E. 42d St., to Fourth Ave., to
Bowery, to Broome St., to Center St., to Brooklyn Bridge, to
Park Row, to Post Office. Branch from Fourth Ave. & Astor
PI. to Broadway & Astor PI. (Some of the Fourth Ave. &
Madison Ave. cars southbound are operated from the Bowery
at Delancy St., eastward over Williamsburg Bridge to Brook-
lyn, returning by same route to Bowery and Delancy St.,
thence northward on regular Fourth Ave. route.)
Chambers & Madison Sts. Crosstown Line. Leaves ft.
Grand St., runs through Cherry St. to Jackson St., to Madison
St., to New Chambers St., to Chambers St., to ft. Chambers
St., North River. Returns through West St. to Duane St., to
New Chambers St., to Madison St., to Jackson St., to Cherry
St., to Grand St. Ferry.
Bleecker St. Line. Leaves Broadway & Bleecker St.
(except Sundays and holidays), runs through Bleecker St. to
MacDougal St., to W. 4th St., to W. I2th St., to Hudson St.,
to 1 4th St., & Ninth Ave. Returns through Hudson St. to
Bleecker St., to Broadway.
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Desbrosses St. & Ave. C Line. Leaves ft. Desbrosses St.,
North River, runs through West St. to Watts St., to Greenwich
St. , to Charlton St . , to Prince St . , to Bowery, to Stanton St. , to
Pitt St., to Ave. C, to iSthSt., to Ave. A, to 24th St. Branch on
23d St. from Ave. A to East River. Returns from 23d St.
through Ave. A to iyth St., to Ave. C, to 3d St., to First Ave.,
to E. Houston St., to W. Houston St., to Washington St., to
Watts St., to West St., to ft. Desbrosses St.
Desbrosses St. & Sixth Avenue Line. Makes connec-
tion from ft. of Desbrosses St. by transfer to Spring St. and
then connects with the Sixth Ave. Line at 4th St.
Spring & Delancy St. Line. Leaves ft. Grand St., runs
through East St. to Delancy St., to Bowery, to Spring St., to
W. Broadway, to Broome St., to Sullivan St., to Watts St.,
to West St., to ft. Desbrosses St. Returns by same route.
Christopher & 8th St. Line. Leaves ft. of Christopher
St. , runs through Christopher St. to Greenwich Ave. , to 8th St.
to St. Marks PI., to Ave. A, to E. loth St., to ft. E. loth St.
Returns by E. loth St. to Ave. A, to E. 9th St., to Stuyvesant
PI., to 8th St., to Greenwich Ave., to W. loth St., to Wash-
ington St., to ft. Christopher St.
Brooklyn Branch. South on Ave. A to Essex St., to
Delancy St., to Williamsburg Bridge, to Brooklyn. Returns
over bridge to Clinton St., to Ave. B, to 2d St., to Ave. A.
22d St., 14th St. & Williamsburg Bridge Line. Leaves
ft. W. 22d St., runs through 22d St. to Marginal St., to I4th St.
to Ave. A, to Essex St., to Delancy St., to bridge, via bridge
to Brooklyn Plaza. Returns via the bridge to Clinton St.,
to Ave. B, to 2d St., to Ave. A, to I4th St., to Marginal St.,
to 22d St., to ft. 22d St.
23d St. Crosstown Line. Runs across the city between ft.
W. 23d St. and ft. E. 23d St.
34th St Branch. Leaves ft. W. 23d St., runs through 23d
St. to Second Ave., to E. 34th St., to ft. E. 34th St. Returns
by same route.
34th St. Crosstown Line. Leaves ft. E. 34th St., runs
through 34th St. to Tenth Ave., to 42d St., to ft. W. 42d St.
Returns by same route.
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Broad Street near Exchange Place
Curb Market in foreground
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86th St. Crosstown Line. Leaves ft. E. Q2dSt. (Astoria Ferry),
runs through Ave. A to 86th St., to Madison Ave., to 85th
St., to Transverse Road through Central Park, to 86th St.,
and Central Park West. Returns by same route.
n6th St. Crosstown Line. Leaves io6th St. & Amsterdam
Ave., runs through io6th St. to Columbus Ave., to lopth St.,
to Manhattan Ave., to n6th St., to East River. Returns by
same route.
1 45th St. Crosstown Line. Runs through i45th St. from
Broadway to Lenox Ave. Returns by same route.
THIRD AVENUE RAILWAY COMPANY'S LINES
Office, Third Ave. & isoth St.
Third & Amsterdam Ave. Line. Leaves Post Office at
Park Row, runs through Park Row to Bowery, to Third Ave.,
to i3oth St. Returns by same route.
Fort George Branch. Every second car runs over above
route to Third Ave. and 12 5th St., thence through 12 5th St.
to Manhattan St., to Amsterdam Ave., to igsth St. (Fort
George). Returns by same route.
I25th St. Crosstown Line. Leaves ft. E. i25th St., runs
through 1 2 5th St. and Manhattan St. to ft. W. i3oth St.
Returns by same route.
110th St. & St. Nicholas Line. Leaves 130th St. Ferry,
runs through Manhattan St. to St. Nicholas Ave., to 110th
St., to ft. E. 110th St. Returns by same route.
Ave. B Line. Leaves Park Row & Ann St., runs through
Park Row to E. Broadway, to Clinton St., to 2d St., to Ave.
B, to 1 4th St., to First Ave., to 34th St., to ft. E. 34th St.
Returns through 34th St. to First Ave., to i4th St., to Ave.
B, to 2d St., to Ave. A, to Houston St., 'to Essex St., to E.
Broadway, to Park Row.
Kingsbridge Line. Leaves First Ave. & 12 5th St., runs
through 1 2 5th St., to Manhattan St., to Amsterdam Ave. &
62d St., to Broadway, to Harlem Ship Canal, Kings Bridge
(225th St.). Returns by same route.
Canal & Grand St. Line. Leaves ft. Grand St., East River,
runs through Grand St. to E. Broadway, to Canal, to Bowery.
Returns by same route.
Grand & Desbrosses St. Line. Leaves ft. Desbrosses St.,
runs through Desbrosses St. to Washington, to Vestry, to
Canal, to Sullivan, to Grand St., to ft. Grand St. Returns by
Grand St. to Sullivan, to Canal, to Vestry, to Greenwich,
to Desbrosses, to ft. Desbrosses St.
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Brooklyn Branch. East-
bound takes same route as
above to Clinton St., to Delan-
cy St., to and across Williams-
burg Bridge. Returns to
Delancy St., to Essex St., to
Grand St., thence by same
route as above to ft. Desbros-
ses St.
Post Office and Williams-
burg Bridge Branch. Leaves
Post Office at Park Row, runs
through Park Row to Bowery,
to Grand St., to Clinton St.,
to Delancy St., to and across
Williamsburg Bridge. Returns
by same route.
Brooklyn & North River
Line. Leaves Desbrosses St.
Ferry, runs through Des-
brosses St., Washington &
Vestry Sts., to Canal St.,
Manhattan Bridge and Flat-
bush Ave. extension to Fulton
St., Brooklyn. Returns by
same route. Free transfers
to Brooklyn trolley lines.
42d ST., MANHATTANVILLE &
George Washington gT NlCHOLAS AvE. Ry>
on steps of bub-treasury
Wall and Nassau Streets Office, 177 Manhattan St.
42d St. Crosstown Line.
Runs across the city from ft. E. 426. St., to ft. W. 426. St.
Queensboro Bridge Line. Leaves ft. W. 426. St., runs
through 42d St. to Third Ave., to 5gth St., to Queensboro
Bridge, to Long Island City. Returns over same route by
6oth St. instead of 5Qth St.
Fort Lee Ferry Line. Leaves ft. E. 34th St., runs through
34th St. to First Ave., to 42 d St., to Seventh Ave., to Broad-
way, to Manhattan St., to ft. W. i3oth St. Returns by same
route.
34th St. & Tenth Ave. Line. Leaves ft. E. 34th St., runs
through E. 34th St., to First Ave., to 42d St., to Tenth Ave.,
to Amsterdam Ave., to i62d St. Returns by same route.
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28th & 2gth STS. CROSSTOWN RAILROAD COMPANY
(Operated by Third Ave. Ry. Co.)
Leaves W. 23d St. Ferry, runs through Thirteenth Ave.,
to 24th St., to Eleventh Ave., to 28th St., to First Ave., to
E. 34th St. Returns by First Ave. to 2gth St., to Eleventh
Ave., to 24th St., to Thirteenth Ave., to ft. W. 23d St.
SECOND AVENUE RAILROAD
Office, 1876 Second Ave.
Second Ave. Line. Leaves Broadway & Worth St., runs
through Worth St. to Bowery, to Grand St., to For sy the St.,
to E. Houston* St., to Second Ave., to i2gth St. Returns by
Second Ave. to Chrystie St., to Grand St., to Bowery, to
Worth St., to Broadway.
Astor Place Line. Leaves ft. E. Q2d St. (Astoria Ferry),
runs through Ave. A, to 86th St., to Second Ave., to
Stuyvesant PI., to Fourth Ave., to Astor PI. Broadway.
Returns by same route.
First Ave. Line. Leaves 12 5th St. & First Ave., runs
through First Ave. to sgth St., to Second Ave., to Stuyvesant
PL, to Fourth Ave., to Astor PL Broadway. Returns by
same route.
CENTRAL PARK, NORTH & EAST RIVER R. R. Co.
Office, 54th St. & Tenth Ave.
West Side Belt Line. Leaves ft. Whitehall St. , runs through
State St. to Bowling Green, to Battery PL, to West St., to
Tenth Ave., to 54th St. Returns by same route to Battery
PL, to State St., to Whitehall St., to South St. This line passes
all the North River ferries.
5Qth St. Crosstown Line. Connects the East Side and
West Side Belt lines. Runs through Tenth Ave. from 54th St.
to 59th St., to First Ave. Returns by same route.
East Side Belt Line. Leaves ft. Whitehall St., runs through
Whitehall St. to South St., to Broad St., to Water St., to
Old Slip, to South St., to Montgomery St., to South St., to
Corlears St., to Grand St., to Goerck St., to Houston St., to
Ave. D, to 1 4th St., to First Ave., to 59th St. Returns by
same route to Ave. D, to 8th St., to Lewis St., to Houston St.,
to Mangin St., to Grand St., to Corlears St., to Monroe St., to
Jackson St., to Front St., to Montgomery St., to South St., to
Roosevelt St., to Front St., to ft. Whitehall St. This line
passes all the East River ferries.
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UNION RAILWAY COMPANY
Ogden Ave. Line. Leaves W. 15 5th St. & Eighth Ave. on
viaduct, terminus of Ninth Ave. Elevated Ry., runs across
Central Bridge to Ogden Ave., and over Washington Bridge
to iSist St. and St. Nicholas Ave. (Subway Station). Returns
by same route.
Aqueduct Ave. Line. Leaves iSist St. & St. Nicholas Ave.
(Subway Station), runs across Washington Bridge to Aqueduct
Ave., to Kingsbridge Road, to Sedgwick Ave., to 238th St., to
Broadway. Returns by same route.
Zoological Park Line. Leaves iSoth St. & Boston Road
(West Farms Subway Station), runs to Southern Blvd.,
to iSgth St., to E. Fordham Road & Third Ave., to Fordham
(Elevated Ry. Station), to Kingsbridge Road, to 238th St.,
to Broadway, to 262d St. (City Line). Returns by same route.
This line passes three entrances to the Zoological Park.
Crosstown Line. Leaves iSist St. & St. Nicholas Ave.
(Subway Station) , runs across Washington Bridge to Aqueduct
Ave., to Tremont
Ave., to Webster
Ave., to iSoth St.
(West Farms Sub-
way Station, Bos-
ton Road & 17 7th
St.), to Unionport,
about 1200 ft. from
Westchester Creek.
Returns by same
route.
Bronx & Van
Cortlandt Park
Line. Leaves
Kingsbridge Road
& W. 225th St.,
runs through W.
2 2 5th St. to Broad-
way, to City Line
(W. 262dSt.). Re-
turns by same
route.
Webster Ave.
Line. Leaves i2pth
0 o T»1 • J A Stock Exchange
bt. & Ihird Ave., Broad near Wall Street
runs through Third Page 107
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Ave. to Melrose Ave., to Webster Ave., to McLean Ave.
(City Line) . Returns by same route.
Westchester Ave. Line. Leaves i2gth St. & Third Ave.,
runs through Third Ave. to Westchester Ave. (i4gth St.),
to Westchester, to Pelham Bay Park. Returns by same route.
West Farms Line. Leaves i2gth St. & Third Ave., runs
through Third Ave. to Boston Road, to West Farms (Subway
Station, Boston Road & lyyth St.). This line stops about
three blocks from southeast entrance to Zoological Park. Re-
turns by same route.
Morris Park Line, Leaves i2gth St. & Third Ave., runs
through Third Ave. to Boston Road, to Walker Ave., to Morris
Park Ave., to Bronxdale Ave. (Morris Park). Returns by
same route.
Southern Blvd. Line. Leaves i29th St. & Third Ave., runs
through Third Ave. to i36th St., to Lincoln Ave., to Southern
Blvd., to East Fordham Road. This line is at main entrance
to Zoological Park. Returns by same route.
Washington Bridge Line. Leaves i2gth St. & Third Ave.,
runs through Third Ave. to Morris Ave., to i6ist St., to
Jerome Ave., to Boscobel Ave., to Washington Bridge. Returns
by same route.
White Plains Ave. Line. Leaves i2gth St. & Third Ave.,
runs through Third Ave. to Melrose Ave., to Webster Ave.,
to Gun Hill Road, to White Plains Road, to E. 242d St. (City
Line) . Returns by same route.
Willis Ave. Line. Leaves i2pth St. & Third Ave., runs
through Third Ave. to 13 6th St., to Lincoln Ave., to Southern
Blvd., to Willis Ave., to E. i4gth St. Returns by same route.
Sedgwick Ave. Line. Leaves i6ist St. & Third Ave., runs
through E. i6ist St. to Jerome Ave., to Sedgwick Ave., to
Cedar Ave., to W. lygth St., to Burnside Ave., to Valentine
Ave., to Tremont Ave., to Third Ave. Returns by same route.
I35th St. Crosstown Line. Leaves W. 13 5th St. & Eighth
Ave., runs through W. 13 5th St. to Madison Ave., crossing
Madison Ave. Bridge to E. 13 8th St., to Locust Ave., to E.
1 3 4th St. Ferry, (Port Morris). Returns by same route.
St. Ann's Ave. Line. Leaves 13 5th St. & Eighth Ave., runs
through W. 13 5th St. to Madison Ave. crossing Madison Ave.
Bridge to E. i38th St., to St. Ann's Ave., to Third Ave. (E.
*6ist St.) Returns by same route.
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VI ? " « r. '
Bankers' Trust Building
Wall and Nassau Streets
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Jerome Ave. Line.
Leaves W. 15 5th St. &
Eighth Ave. on viaduct
terminus of Ninth Ave.
Elevated Railroad, runs
across Central Bridge to
Jerome Ave., to City
Line (Lincoln Park) and
Central Ave. to Empire
City Race Track/ Re-
turns by same route.
Fordham Crosstown
Line. Leaves 2oyth St.
Subway station, runs
through W. 207th St.,
crossing Fordham Bridge,
to Sedgwick Ave., to
Fordham Road, to E.
Fordham Road, to South-
ern Blvd., at main
entrance to Zoological
Park. Returns by same
route.
Clason Point Line.
Leaves Westchester Ave.
and Simpson St., runs
through Westchester Ave.
to Clason Point Road, to
Clason Point, East River.
Returns by same route.
Tremont & Walker
Ave. Line. Leaves Je-
rome & Burnside Aves.,
runs through Burnside
Ave. to Tremont Ave.,
to Boston Road, to West
Farms, to Walker Ave.,
to Westchester. Returns
by same route.
Fort Schuyler Line.
Leaves Westchester, runs
through Fort Schuyler
Road to Eastern Blvd.
Returns by same route.
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Manhattan Sky-Line
i6ist & i6ad Sts. Line. Leaves W. issth St. & Eighth
Ave. on viaduct, terminus of Ninth Ave. Elevated Ry., runs
across Central Bridge to Jerome Ave. , to 1 6 1 st St . , to Third Ave. ,
to 1 63d St., to West Chester Ave., to Dongan St., to Southern
Blvd., to Hunt's Point. Returns by same route.
1 67th St. Crosstown Line. Leaves Washington Bridge,
runs through Boscobel Ave. to i6yth St., to Webster Ave., to
i68th St., to Franklin Ave., to i6gth St., to i6;th St., to
Westchester Ave. Returns by same route.
Kings Bridge Line. Leaves W. Fordham Road & Sedgwick
Ave., runs through Bailey Ave. to W. 23oth St. Returns by
same route.
Mount Vernon Line. Leaves West Farms, runs through
Walker Ave. to Morris Park Ave., to White Plains Ave., to
Lincoln Ave. (City Line), to W. ist St., to Mt. Vernon Station
(N. Y., N. H., & H. R. R.). Returns by same route.
ELEVATED RAILWAYS
Fare, 5 cents. Children under 5 years of age free. A ticket
must be bought and thrown into the gateman's glass "chopper"
box at the entrance to the platform. Transfers are given
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en from Hudson River
between Sixth and Ninth Aves. at Rector and 5gth Sts. ; between
Sixth and Ninth Aves., and Second and Third Aves. at the
Battery; between Second and Third Aves. at Chatham Sq.;;
between City Hall trains and South Ferry trains at Third
Ave. and Chatham Sq. By paying an extra 3 cents when
buying the elevated railway ticket, transfers may be had for
certain surface lines.
Elevated Stations
Sixth Ave.
South Ferry.
Battery PI.
Rector & N. Church Sts.
Cortlandt & Church Sts.
Park PL & Church St.
Chambers St. & W. Broadway.
Franklin St. & W. Broadway.
Grand St. & W. Broadway.
Bleecker St. & W. Broadway.
8th St. & Sixth Ave.
1 4th St. & Sixth Ave.
i8th St. & Sixth Ave.
23d St. & Sixth Ave.
28th St. & Sixth Ave.
33d St. & Sixth Ave.
38th St. & Sixth Ave.
42d St. & Sixth Ave.
5oth St. & Sixth Ave.
53d St. & Sixth Ave.
53d St. & Eighth Ave.
59th St. & Ninth Ave.
66th St. & Columbus Ave.
yad St. & Columbus Ave.
8ist St. & Columbus Ave.
86th St. & Columbus Ave.
93d St. & Columbus Ave.
99th St. & Columbus Ave.
104th St. & Columbus Ave.
110th St. between 8th St. £ Colum-
bus Ave.
116th St. & Eighth Ave.
125th St. & Eighth Ave.
130th St. & Eighth Ave.
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Sixth Ave. — Continued
I35th St. & Eighth Ave.
I4oth St. & Eighth Ave.
i45th St. & Eighth Ave.
I55th St & Eighth Ave.
Ninth Ave.
South Ferry,
Battery PI.
Rector & Greenwich Sts.
Cortlandt & Greenwich Sts.
Barclay & Greenwich Sts.
Warren & Greenwich Sts.
Franklin & Greenwich Sts.
Desbrosses & Greenwich Sts.
Houston & Greenwich Sts.
Christopher & Greenwich Sts.
i4th St. & Ninth Ave.
23d St. & Ninth Ave.
3oth St. & Ninth Ave.
34th St & Ninth Ave.
42d St. & Ninth Ave.
5oth St. & Ninth Ave.
59th St. & Ninth Ave.
From here on stations are the
same as Sixth Ave. Line.
Third Ave.
South Ferry.
Hanover Sq.
Fulton & Pearl Sts.
Franklin Sq.
City Hall.
Chatham Sq.
Canal St. & Bowery.
Grand St. & Bowery.
Houston St. & Bowery.
gth St & Third Ave.
i4th St. & Third Ave.
1 8th St. & Third Ave.
23d St. & Third Ave.
28th St. & Third Ave.
34th St. & Third Ave. (branch to
34th St. Ferry, E. R.)
42d St. & Third Ave. (branch to
Grand Central Terminal).
47th St. & Third Ave.
53d St. & Third Ave.
59th St. & Third Ave.
67th St & Third Ave.
76th St. & Third Ave.
84th St. & Third Ave.
8gth St, & Third Ave.
99th St. & Third Ave.
io6th St. & Third Ave.
n6th St. & Third Ave.
I25th St & Third Ave.
I2gth St. & Third Ave.
I33d St. between Willis and Alex-
ander Aves.
I38th St. between Willis and Alex-
ander Aves.
I43d St. between Willis and Alex-
ander Aves.
I49th St. & Third Ave.
1 56th St. & Third Ave.
i6ist St. & Third Ave.
i66th St. & Third Ave.
i6gth St. & Third Ave.
Claremont Parkway & Third Ave.
i74th St. & Third Ave.
i77th St. & Third Ave.
iSoth St. & Third Ave.
i83d St. & Third Ave.
Fordham Road, Bronx Park
Second Ave.
South Ferry.
Hanover Sq.
Fulton & Pearl Sts.
Franklin Sq.
Chatham Sq.
Canal & Allen Sts.
Grand & Allen Sts.
Rivington & Allen Sts.
ist St. & First Ave.
8th St. & First Ave.
I4th St. & First Ave.
igth St. & First Ave.
23d St. between First & Second
Aves.
34th St. & Second Ave. (branch to
34th St. Ferry, E. R.)
42d St. & Second Ave.
50th St. & Second Ave.
57th St. & Second Ave.
6sth St. & Second Ave.
72d St. & Second Ave.
8oth St. & Second Ave.
86th St. & Second Ave.
gzd St. & Second Ave.
99th St. & Second Ave.
105th St. & Second Ave.
i nth St. & Second Ave.
H7th St. & Second Ave.
i2ist St. & Second Ave.
I27th St. & Second Ave.
I2oth St. connects with Third Ave.
line.
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UNDERGROUND RAILWAYS
The Interborough Rapid Transit Co. operate the present
subways in New York, which extend from Atlantic Ave.,
Brooklyn, to p6th St. and Broadway, where the subway
branches — one branch, known as the Broadway line, extending
to Van Cortlandt Park and the other branch, known as the
Lenox Ave. and West Farms line, extending to iSoth St. and
Boston Road (Bronx Park).
Through trains are run from Brooklyn to stations on each
of these branches and vice versa.
Certain trains are operated as express trains between
Brooklyn Bridge and 96th St., with express stations at i4th,
42d, 72d, and 9 6th Sts. These stations are indicated by an
asterisk (*) in the list of stations.
Local trains do not run south of Brooklyn Bridge or City
Hall.
Express trains make all stops south of City Hall and north
of g6th St.
Express trains can be taken from one express station to
another and change made at any express station to local trains
for stations between express stations.
Hudson Terminal Buildings
Church Street from Cortlandt to Fulton Street
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The fare is 5 cents from any station to another in one
direction over the entire system. Children under five years of
age may ride free.
The following is a list of stations, starting from Atlantic
Ave., Brooklyn:
Broadway Line
I03d St. & Broadway.
noth St. & Broadway.
u6th St. & Broadway.
Manhattan & Broadway.
Ferry to Edgewater.
I37th St. & Broadway.
i4fjth St. & Broadway.
I57th St. & Broadway.
i68th St. & Broadway.
iSist St. & Broadway,
igist St. & Broadway.
Dyckman & Broadway.
207th St. & Amsterdam Ave.
2i5th St. & Amsterdam Ave.
225th St. & Broadway.
23ist St. & Broadway.
238th St. & Broadway.
242d St. & Broadway.
Van Cortlandt Park (surface cars
to Yonkerc).
Lerox Ave. acd \7cst Farms Line
noth St. & Lenox Ave.
nCth St. & Lenox Ave.
I25th St. & Lenox Ave.
i35th St. & Lcncx Ave.
i4sth St. & Lenox Ave.
Mott Ave. & i4Qth St.
I49th St. & Third Ave.
Jackson & W. Chester Aves.
Prospect & W. Chester Aves.
Intervale & W. Chester Aves.
Simpson St. & Southern Blvd.
Freeman St. & Southern Blvd.
i74th St. & Boston Road.
i77th St. & Boston Rd(Tremont).
iSoth St. & Boston Rd (Bronx Pk).
Brooklyn Branch
Atlantic Ave.
Nevins St.
Hoyt St.
Borough Hall.
Main Line
South Ferry.
Bowling Green.
Wall St. & Broadway.
Fulton St. & Broadway.
Brooklyn Bridge.
Worth & Elm Sts.
Canal & Elm Sts.
Spring & Elm Sts.
Bleecker & Elm Sts.
Astor PL & Fourth Ave.
*i4th St. & Fourth Ave.
1 8th St. & Fourth Ave.
23d St. & Fourth Ave.
28th St. & Fourth Ave.
33d St. & Fourth Ave.
|*42d St. & Park Ave.
[Grand Central Terminal.
(Times Sq.
l4.2d St. & Broadway.
5Oth St. & Broadway.
59th St. & Broadway.
66th St. & Broadway.
*72d St. & Broadway.
79th St. & Broadway.
86th St. & Broadway.
9 ist St. & Broadway.
*96th St. & Broadway.
Trains diverge here for Broadway
Line, Lenox Ave. and West Farms
Line.
THE TUNNELS
Manhattan — Brooklyn. Under the East River, between
Broad St., Manhattan, and the Flatbush and Atlantic Ave.
Stations of the Long Island Railway, in the Borough of Brook-
lyn, there are two tubes.
Manhattan Interborough Subway, from 426. St. and
Lexington Ave. , Manhattan, to Jackson Ave. , Queens Borough.
Fourth Avenue — Brooklyn Subway, from Municipal
Building, City Hall Park, across the Manhattan Bridge,
through Brooklyn to Coney Island.
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Looking down Broadway from General Post Office
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Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Co. operate what is
known locally as the "Hudson Tunnels," running trains from
33d St., Broadway and Sixth Ave. (up- town division), and the
Hudson Terminal, Cortlandt St. and Fulton St. (down-town
division), to Hoboken, Jersey City, and Park Place, Newark.
This is considered a much more convenient way of reaching
various steam railroad terminals in Hoboken and Jersey City
than by the old method of using the ferries.
Trains are operated to and from the following stations :
FROM TO
Up-Town
33d St. & Sixth Ave.
28th St. & Sixth Ave.
23d St. & Sixth Ave.
19th St. & Sixth Ave.
14th St. & Sixth Ave.
9th St. & Sixth Ave.
Christopher & Greenwich Sts.
Down-Town
Fulton, Church & Cortlandt Sts.
Lackawanna Railroad Station, Ho-
boken.
Erie Railroad Station, Jersey City.
Pennsylvania Railroad Station, Jer-
sey City.
Henderson and Grove St. Station,
Jersey City.
Summit Ave. Station, Jersey City.
Manhattan Transfer (connecting
with the Pennsylvania Railroad).
Park Place, Newark.
Fare 5 cents between down-town terminals and Jersey City
and Hoboken ; from the up-town points a 7-cent fare to Jersey
City and Hoboken. To Newark the fare is as follows:
From Down-Town Stations From Up-Town Stations
One-way fare 17c One-way fare 19c
Round-trip fare 30c Round-trip fare 34c
Half-rate one-way fare 9c Half-rate one-way fare lie
Half-rate round-trip fare 15c Half-rate round-trip fare 19c
Children between the ages of 5 and 12 years travel at half
rate. Children under 5 years of age ride free.
Pennsylvania R. R. Tunnels. On account of the mud
and clay in the bed of the Hudson River these tunnels are
supported by piers of stone resting on bedrock. The tubes are
1 8 ft. in diameter. In midstream the bed of the tracks is 100
ft. below the river bed. There are two under the Hudson
River, and four under the East River. Trains are moved by
electric locomotives.
FIFTH AVENUE COACH LINES
One of the best ways to see the best residential sections,
the fashionable shopping districts and the hotel and amuse-
ment centers of New York City is from the tops of the Fifth
Avenue buses, which traverse at short intervals Fifth Avenue,
Riverside Drive and other important thoroughfares. Several
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important avenues north of Central Park are served and there
is also a line connecting with the Pennsylvania Station and an
important crosstown line that connects tha residential sections
lying on either side of Central Park.
Many important public buildings and the leading churches
of the city are passed, among these being the Public Library
and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Riverside Drive line, which leaves Fifth Avenue at
57th Street, gives the unrivalled view of the Hudson and
Palisades, the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Grant's Tomb
and Claremont. On any line the fare is 10 cents.
The Most Important Routes
Washington Square and Riverside Drive. Fifth Ave., from Washing-
ton Square to 57th St., to Broadway, to 72d St., to Riverside Drive, to
135th St., to Broadway.
Seventy-second St. Crosstown. East 72d St., from First Ave. to
Fifth Ave., to 57th St., to Broadway, to West 72d St., to Central Park West.
Cathedral Parkway and Riverside Drive, noth St., from
Fifth Ave. to Riverside Drive, to I35th St., to Broadway.
Fifth Ave.-i35th St. Fifth Ave. from noth St. to i2Oth
St., to Mt. Morris Park West, to I24th St., to Fifth Ave., to
I35th St.
Washington Sq. -Seventh Ave. -Polo Grounds. Fifth Ave.
from Washington Sq. to noth St., to Seventh Ave., to I53d
St., to Macomb's Dam Road, to I55th Street Viaduct, to St.
Nicholas Place.
Washington Sq.-St. Nicholas Ave. -Polo Grounds. Fifth
Ave. from Washington Sq. to noth St., to Manhattan Ave.,
to St. Nicholas Ave., to St. Nicholas Place, to I55th St.
Pennsylvania Station and Riverside Drive. 32d St. from
Pennsylvania Station (Seventh Ave. entrance) to Fifth Ave.,
to 57th St., to Broadway, to 72d St., to Riverside Drive, to
1 35th St., to Broadway.
STEAMSHIP LINES1 PIERS
American-Hawaiian S. S. Co., Pier 6, ft. 42d St., Brooklyn.
To Pacific Coast ports and Hawaiian Islands.
American Line, Pier 62, North River, ft. W. 22d St. To
Southampton, Plymouth, Cherbourg.
Anchor Line, Pier 29, ft. Harrison St., Union Stores,
Brooklyn. To Marseilles, Leghorn, and Naples.
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Atlantic Transport, Pier 58, North River, ft. W. i6th St.
To London.
Austro-Americana Steamship Co., Ltd., Pier i, Bush Docks,
South Brooklyn. To Naples, Patras, Azores, and Trieste.
Ben Franklin Line, Pier 24, North River.
Bridgeport Line, Pier 27, East River, ft. Catherine St.
Capital City Line, Pier 46, North River.
Catskill Evening Line, Pier 43, North River.
Central-Hudson Steamboat Line, Pier 24, North River, ft.
Franklin St. To Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, Rondout, and
intermediate Hudson River points (Summer season).
Central Railroad of New Jersey, Pier 10, ft. Cedar St.,
Pier 81, ft. 42d St., North River. To Atlantic Highlands.
Clyde Line, Pier 36, North River, ft. Spring St. To
Charleston, Jacksonville, and Brunswick.
Clyde Line, Pier 34, ft. Hamilton Ave., Atlantic Basin,
Brooklyn. To Puerto Plata and West Indian ports.
Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, Pier 57, North River,
ft.iSthSt. To Havre.
Compania Trasatlantica, Pier 8, East River, Coenties
Slip. To Havana, Mexican, South American, and Spanish
ports.
Cunard Line, Piers 54 and 56, North River, ft. I4th St.
To Queenstown and Liverpool, Gibraltar, Genoa, Naples,
Fiume, and Trieste.
Delaware-Hudson S. S. Co., Battery and W. I3ist St.,
North River, "Mandalay" Excursion Boat up Hudson
(Summer season).
Fabre Line, ft. W. 3ist St., South Brooklyn. To Naples
and Marseilles.
Fall River Line, Pier 14, North River, ft. Fulton St. To
Newport and Fall River (Boston).
Hamburg-American Line, Pier ft. 1st St., Hoboken. To
Plymouth, Cherbourg and Hamburg, Gibraltar, Naples and
Genoa.
Hamburg-American Line (Atlas Service), Pier ft. W. 25th
St. To Cuba, Panama, and South American ports.
Hamburg-American Line (Brazil Service), ft. 43d St.,
Bush Docks, South Brooklyn. To Rio de Janeiro and other
Brazilian ports.
Hartford Line, Pier 19, East River, ft. Peck Slip. To
Hartford (Summer season).
Holland -American Line, Pier ft. 5th St., Hoboken. To
Rotterdam.
Hudson River Day Line, Pier 30, ft. Desbrosses St., Pier 81,
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ft. 42<d St., and Pier 119,
ft. 1 29th St., North River.
To Albany and intermedi-
ate points (Summerseason) .
Insular Line, Pier 29, ft.
BalticSt., Robinson Stores,
Brooklyn. To Ponce and
other Porto Rican ports.
Iron Steamboat Co.,
Pier I, Battery Place, and
Pier 119, I29th St., North
River. To Coney Island
and Rockaway Beach
(Summer season).
Lamport & Holt Line,
Pier 8, Brooklyn. To
Bahia, Rio de Janeiro,
Montevideo, and other
South American ports.
La Veloce Line, Pier
74, North River, ft. 34th
St. To Genoa, Naples, and
Palermo.
Lloyd Italiano Steam-
ship Co., Pier 74, North
River, ft. West 34th St.
Lloyd Sabaudo, Pier B,
ft. Grand St., Jersey City.
To Naples and Genoa.
McAllister Steamboat
Co., Pier 81, 42nd St., and
129th St., North River. To
Bear Mountain (Summer
season) .
Maine Steamship Line,
Pier 19, North River, ft.
Warren St. To Portland.
Mallory Steamship Co.,
Pier 45, North River, ft.
10th St. To Key West
and Galveston.
Mallory Steamship Co., Pier 38, North River, ft. King St.
To Tampa and Mobile.
Manhattan Line, Pier 39, North River, ft. West Houston
St. To Albany (Summer season).
Mary Powell Steamboat Co., Pier 30, ft. Desbrosses St.,
Singer Building
Broadway and Liberty Street
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Pier 81, ft. 426. St., and Pier 119, ft. I29th St., North River.
To Rondout (Summer season).
Metropolitan Steamship Line, Pier 19, North River, ft.
Warren St. To Boston (Summer season).
Montauk Steamship Co., Pier 8, East River, Coenties Slip.
To Shelter Island and Sag Harbor (Summer season).
Munson Line, Pier 9, East River, Old Slip. To Nuevitas
and other ports in Cuba.
Navigazione Generale Italiana, Pier 74, North River, ft.
34th St. To Genoa, Naples, and Palermo. Connecting lines
to the Orient.
New Haven Lines, Pier 28, East River, ft. Catherine St.
To New Haven.
New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Co. (Ward Line),
Piers 13 and 14, East River, ft. Wall St. and Pine St. To
Havana, Mexican and West Indian ports.
New York and Long Branch Steamboat Co., Pier 75,
North River, ft. 35th St. To Long Branch (Summer season).
New York and Porto Rico Steamship Co., Pier 35, ft,
Atlantic Ave., Atlantic Basin, Brooklyn. To San Juan and
other ports in Porte Rico.
Night Express (Citizens Line), Pier 32, North Rivci. it.
Canal St. and I32d St. To Troy (Summer season).
North German Lloyd Steamship Co., Pier ft. 3d St., Ho-
boken. To Plymouth (London) and Bremen, Gibraltar,
Algiers, Naples and Genoa, (Egypt, India and Far East).
Norwegian American Line, Pier ft. 30th St., Brooklyn. >
Norwich Line, Pier 40, North River, ft. Clarkson'St. To
New London.
Ocean Steamship Co., Pier 35, North River, ft. Spring
St. To Savannah.
Old Dominion Steamship Co., Pier 25, N. R., ft. North
Moore St. To Old Point Comfort, Norfolk and Newport News.
Panama Rail Road Steamship Lines, Pier 67, North River,
ft. 27th St. To Colon, Central and South American ports.
People's Line (Night), Pier 32, North River, ft. Canal St.
To Albany (Summer season) .
Phoenix Line, Pier 59, N. R., ft. i8th St. To Antwerp.
Prince Line, Pier 4, ft. 45th St., Bush Docks, South Brook-
lyn. To Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires and other South
American ports, and to South African and Far Eastern ports.
Providence Line, Pier 19, East River, Peck Slip. To
Providence (Boston).
Providence Line, Pier 15, North River, ft. Barclay St. To
Providence (Boston) (Summer season).
Quebec Steamship Co., Ltd., Pier 47, North River, ft.
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St. Paul's Chapel
Broadway, Fulton and Vesey Streets
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ioth St. To Bermuda and
West Indies; also Summer
Service to Montreal and
Quebec.
Red Cross Line, Pier
B, ft. Richard St., Erie
Basin. To Halifax and
St. Johns.
Red "D" Line, Pier n,
ft. Montague St., Brooklyn.
To San Juan, Porto Rico;
La Guaira and other ports
in Venezuela.
Red Star Line, Pier 61,
North River, ft. 2ist St.
To Dover and Antwerp.
Royal Dutch West India
Mail, Bush Docks, South
Brooklyn. To Curasao and
ports in Venezuela.
Royal Mail Steam
Packet Co., Pier 42, North
River, ft. Morton St. To
Bermuda, West Indian,
South and Central Ameri-
can ports.
Russian-American Line,
ft. 3ist St., South Brook-
lyn. To Rotterdam and
Libau.
Scandinavian - American
Line, ft. iyth St., Hoboken.
To Christiansand, Chris-
tiania and Copenhagen.
Sicula Americana Line,
Pier 22, ft. Pacific St.,
Brooklyn. To Naples,
Palermo and other Medi-
terranean ports.
Southern Pacific Co.,
Atlantic Steamship Lines,
Piers 49, 50, 51 and 52,
North River, ft. nth St.
To New Orleans.
Texas City Steamship
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Co., Pier 44, North River, ft. Barrow Street. To Texas City,
Texas.
United Fruit Co. Lines, Pier 16, East River, ft. Fulton
St. To Kingston, Jamaica, and to Central American ports.
Uranium Steamship Co., Pier 38, ft. Pioneer St., Atlantic
Basin, Brooklyn. To Rotterdam.
White Star Line, Pier 60, North River, ft. ipth St. To
Queenstown, Liverpool, Plymouth, Cherbourg and South-
ampton (Gibraltar, Naples and Genoa).
Wilson Line, Pier ft. ;th St., Hoboken. To Hull.
FERRIES
To Astoria— From ft. E. 92d St.
Atlantic Highlands — From South
Ferry (Summer season).
To Bedloe's Island (Liberty Island)
— From Battery ft. Broadway.
*To Blackwell's Island — From ft.
26th St., ft. 53d St., ft. 70th St.,
E. R.
To Brooklyn — From ft. E.lOth and
E. 23d Sts. to Greenpoint Ave.
To Brooklyn — From ft. E. 23d St.
to Broadway.
To Brooklyn — From ft. E. Hous-
ton St. to Grand St.
To Brooklyn — From ft. Fulton St.
to Fulton St.
To Brooklyn — From ft. Roosevelt
St. to Broadway.
To Brooklyn — From ft. Whitehall
St. to Atlantic and Hamilton
Aves.
To Brooklyn — From ft. Whitehall
St. to 39th St.
To College Point (Queens Borough)
—From ft. E. 99th St.
To Edgewater— From W. 130th St.
To Ellis Island — From Barge
Office, Whitehall St.
To Englewood — From ft. Dyckman
St.
*To Forts Schuyler, Totten & Slo-
cum— From ft. Wall St., E. R.
*To Forts Hamilton & Wadsworth
—From ft. Wall St., E. R.
*To Farm Colony (Staten Island) —
From ft. 26th & 53d Sts., E. R.
To Governor's Island — From
Battery, ft. Whitehall St.
*To Hart's Island— From ft. 26th
St., E. R.
To Hoboken— From ft. Barclay,
Christopher, and W. 23d Sts.
to Newark and Ferry Sts. (D. L.
& W. R. R.)
To Hoboken— From ft. W. 23d St.
to 14th St.
To Jersey City — From ft. Chambers
and W. 23d Sts. to Pavonia
Ave. (Erie R. R., Northern of
New Jersey R R., and N. J.
& N. Y. R. R., New York,
Susquehanna & Western R. R.)
To Jersey City— From ft. Cort-
landt and Desbrosses Sts. to
Montgomery St., Jersey City.
(Pennsylvania R. R.)
To Jersey City — From ft. Liberty
and W. 23d Sts. to Communi-
paw, Jersey City. (Central R. R.
of New Jersey, Lehigh Valley
R. R.)
*To North Brother Island — From
ft. E. 132d St.
To Queens (Long Island City) —
From ft. E. 34th St. to Bordcn
Ave. (L. I. R. R.)
*To Randall's Island— From ft. E.
26th, E. 120th, and E. 125th Sts.
To Richmond (Staten Island) —
From ft. Whitehall St. to St.
George (Staten Island Rapid
Transit R. R., & Trolley Lines).
*To Riker's Island— From ft. E.
26th St.
*To Sandy Hook Proving Grounds
—From ft. Wall St., E. R.
*To Ward's Island— From ft. E.
116th St.
To Weehawken — From ft. Cort-
landt and ft. W. 42d Sts. (to
West Shore R. R. Depot).
*To West New York— From ft. W.
42d St. to Old Slip.
NOTE: E. R., East River,
required.
"Permit
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Fifth Avenue, North from Forty-SeqoncJ Street;
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PLACES OF
Academy of Music, 14th St. &
Irving PI.
Alhambra, Seventh Ave. & 126th St.
American Leaeue Baseball Park,
156th St. & Eighth Ave.
American Museum of Natural
History,77th St. & Central Pk. W.
American Music Hall, Eighth Ave.
& 42d St.
Apollo, 116th St. near 7th Ave.
Aquarium, Battery Park.
Astor, Broadway & 45th St.
Audubon, 165th St. & Broadway.
Belasco, 44th St. near Broadway.
Booth, 45th St. W. of Broadway.
Broadway, Broadway & 41st St.
Bronx Opera House, 436 E. 149th St.
Candler, 42d St. near Seventh Ave.
Carnegie Hall, 7th Ave. & 57th St.
Casino, Broadway & 39th St.
Century, 62d St. & Central Park W.
Circle, 60th St. & Broadway.
Cohan's, Broadway & 43d St.
Colonial, Broadway & 62d St.
Columbia, Seventh Ave. & 47th St.
Comedy, 41st St. near Broadway
Cort, 48th St. east of Broadway.
Dancing Carnival, Grand Central
Palace.
Eltinge, 42d St. W. of Broadway.
Empire, Broadway & 40th St.
Forty-eighth Street Theatre, 48th
St. W. of Broadway.
Forty-fourth Street Theatre, 44th
St. W. of Broadway.
Fulton, 208 W. 46th St.
Gaiety, Broadway & 46th St.
Garden, Madison Ave. & E. 27th St.
Garrick, 65 W. 35th St.
Globe, Broadway & 46th St.
Grand Central Palace, Lexington
Ave. & 46th St.
Grand Opera House, Eighth Ave.
& 23d St.
Hamilton, 146th St. & Broadway.
Harris, 42d St. near Eighth Ave.
Hippodrome, 6th Ave.,43d-44thSts.
Hudson, 44th St. near Broadway.
Irving Place, 13 Irving PI.
Jardin de Danse, Broadway, 44th &
45th Sts.
Keith's Union Square, Union Sq.
& 14th St.
Keith's Harlem Opera House, 205
W. 125th St.
Knickerbocker, Broadway & 38th St.
AMUSEMENT
Lexington, Lexington Ave., 50th &
51st Sts.
Liberty, 234 W. 42d St.
Longacre, 48th St. W. of Broadway.
Lyceum, 45th St. near Broadway.
Little, 44th St. W. of Broadway.
Lyric, 42d St. near Seventh Ave.
Madison Square Garden, Madison
Ave. & 26th St.
Manhattan Opera House, 315 W.
34th St.
Maxine Elliott's, 39th St. near
Broadway.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth
Ave. & 82d St.
Metropolitan Opera House, Broad-
way & 40th St.
Murray Hill, Lexington Ave. &
42dSt.
Nemo, 110th St. & Broadway.
National League Baseball Park,
156th St. & Eighth Ave.
New Amsterdam, 214 W. 42d St.
New York, Broadway & 45th St.
Olympic, 145 E. 14th St.
Palace, 47th St. & 7th Ave.
Park, 59th St. & Broadway.
Playhouse, 48th St. near Broadway.
Plaza, Madison Ave. & 59th St.
Polo Grounds, 156th St. & 8th Ave.
Princess, 39th St. E. of Broadway.
Proctor's 23d St., 142 W. 23d St.
Proctor's Fifth Ave., Broadway and
28th St.
Procter's 58th St., 154 E. 58th St.
Proctor's 125th St., 112 E. 125th St.
Public Library, Fifth Ave. & 40th
to 42d Sts.
Punch & Judy, 49th St. E. of Bdwy.
Republic, 42d St. near Broadway.
Riverside, Broadway & 96th St.
Savoy, 112 W. 34th St.
Shubert, 44th St. W. of Broadway.
St. Nicholas Skating Rink, 69 W.
66th St.
Standard, 90th St. & Broadway.
Strand, Broadway & 47th St.
Thirty-ninth Street Theatre, 39th
St. near Broadway.
Vitagraph, Broadway & 44th St.
West End, 368 W. 125th St.
Winter Garden, Bdwy. &50th St.
Yorkville, 157 E. 86th St.
Ziegfield Follies, Atop New Amster-
dam, 42d St. near 7th Ave.
Zoo, Central Park.
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RAILROAD STATIONS
Atlantic Coast Line,
Seventh Ave., 326. to 336!
Sts.,and Hudson & Manhat-
tan R. R. Stations.
Baltimore & Ohio, ft.
W. 23d & Liberty Sts.
Central of New Jersey,
ft. W. 23d & Liberty Sts.;
New Jersey Southern Divi-
sion (in summer), ft. W.
42d & Cedar Sts.
Chesapeake & Ohio,
Seventh Ave., 32d to 33<i
Sts., and Hudson & Man-
hattan R. R. Stations.
Delaware, Lackawanna
& Western, ft. Barclay &
Christopher Sts., & W. 23d
St. and Hudson & Manhat-
tan R. R. Stations.
Erie, ft. Chambers & W.
23d Sts. and Hudson &
Manhattan R. R. Stations.
Hudson & Manhattan
R. R. (Hudson Tunnels)
from 33d St. & Sixth Ave.,
down Sixth Ave. to Chris-
topher St., thence to Jersey
City, Hoboken and Newark
making sub-surface connec-
tions with Erie, Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western and Pennsylvania R. Rds. For Sta-
tions see page 30.
Lehigh Valley, ft. Liberty & W. 23d St.
Long Island, Seventh Ave. & 33d St., ft. E. 34th St. Atlan-
tic Ave. branch, junction of Flatbush & Atlantic Aves.,
Brooklyn.
New Jersey & New York (Erie), ft. Chambers and W. 23d
Sts. and Hudson & Manhattan R. R. Stations.
New York & Long Branch, ft. Liberty, Cortlandt, Des-
brosses and W. 23d Sts., and Pennsylvania R. R. Station, 32d St.
& Seventh Ave. In summer ft. W. 42d & Cedar Sts., also.
New York Central & Hudson River, New York Central
Lines, Grand Central Terminal, 42 d and Park Ave., Harlem,
Equitable Building
Broadway and Pine Street
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1 2 5th St. ; Mott Haven, i38th St. ; Putnam
Division, 15 5th St.
New York, New Haven & Hartford,
Grand Central Terminal, 42 d St. and Park
Ave., Harlem, 12 5th St., Willis Ave. &
i33d St.
New York, Ontario & Western, ft.
Cortlandt St. & W. 42d St.
New York, Susquehanna & Western
(Erie), ft. Chambers & W. 23d Sts. and
Hudson & Manhattan R. R. Stations.
New York, West Chester & Boston,
Harlem River, i33d St. & Willis Ave.
Norfolk & Western, Seventh Ave.,
32d to 33d Sts., and Hudson & Manhat-
tan R. R. Stations.
Northern of New Jersey (Erie), ft.
Chambers & W. 23d Sts. and Hudson &
Manhattan R. R. Stations.
Pennsylvania, Seventh Ave., 32d to
33d Sts., and Hudson & Manhattan R. R.
Stations.
Philadelphia & Reading, ft. W. 23d &
Liberty Sts.
Seaboard Air Line, Seventh Ave. 32d
to 33d Sts., and Hudson & Manhattan
R. R. Stations.
Southern Railway, Seventh Ave. 32d to
33d Sts., and Hudson & Manhattan R. R.
Stations.
Staten Island, ft. Whitehall St.
West Shore, ft. Cortlandt and ft. W.
42d St.
MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX
SIGHT-SEEING
Sight-Seeing. Automobiles and yachts,
run on regular schedules, provide com-
fortable and convenient facilities for view-
ing places of interest in and around
Manhattan. These tours are conducted
Metropolitan Life by lecturers, who point out and explain
insurance Building the features along the way. The rates
ison Ave. and 23d Street <<
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HOTELS
Aberdeen, 17 W. 32d St.
Albert, University PI. & llth St.
Aldine, 431 Fourth Ave.
Algonquin, 59 W. 44th St.
Alliance, 258 W. 44th St.
America, 102 E. 15th St.
Ansonia, Broadway £ 73d St.
Arlington, 18 W. 25th St.
Ashton, Madison Ave. & 93d St.
Astor, Broadway, 44th & 45th Sts.
Belleclaire, Broadway £ 77th St.
Belmont, Park Ave. & 42d St.
Beresford, Central Park West &
81st St.
Biltmore, Vanderbilt Ave. & 43d
St.
Bonta, Broadway & 94th St.
Breslin, Broadway & 29th St.
Bretton Hall, Broadway & 86th St.
Brevoort, Fifth Ave. & 8th St.
Bristol, 122 W. 49th St.
Broadway Cehtral, Broadway &
3d St.
Broztell, 3 E. 27th St.
Brunswick, Madison Ave. & 89th St.
Buckingham, Fifth Ave. & 50th St.
Calumet, 340 W. 57th St.
Calvert, Broadway & 41st St.
Cecil, St. Nicholas Ave. & 118th St.
Chelsea, 222 W. 23d St.
Churchill, Broadway & 14th St.
Claridge, 44th St. & Broadway.
Clendening, 202 W. 103d St.
Collingwood, 45 W. 35th St.
Colonial, Columbus Ave. & 81st St.
Continental, Broadway & 41st St.
Cumberland, Broadway & 54th St.
Delmonico's, Fifth Ave. & 44th St.
Devon, 70 W. 55th St.
Earle, 103 Waverly PI.
Earlington, 55 W. 27th St.
Empire, Broadway & 63d St.
Endicott, 101 W. 81st St.
'Flanders, 135 W. 47th St.
Frederick, 210 W. 56th St.
Gerard, 123 W. 44th St.
Gotham, Fifth Ave. & 55th St.
Grand, Broadway & 31st St.
Great Northern, 118 W. 57th St.
Gregorian, 42 W. 35th St.
Grenoble, Seventh Ave. & 56th St.
Hargrave, 112 W. 72d St.
Hawthorne, 70 W. 49th St.
Herald Square, 116 W. 34th St.
Hermitage, Seventh Ave. & 42d St.
Holland House, Fifth Ave. &
30th St.
Holley, 36 Washington Sq.
Imperial, Broadway & 32d St.
Irving, 26 Gramercy Pk.
Van Cortlandt Manor House
Van Cortlandt Park
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Troquois, 49 W. 44th St.
Judson, 53 Washington Sq.
Knickerbocker, Broadway & 42d St.
Lafayette, University PI. & 9th St.
Langdon, Fifth Ave. & 56th St.
Latham, 4 E. 28th St.
Le Marquis, 12 E. 31st St.
Leonori, Madison Ave. & 63d St.
Longacre, 47th St. & Broadway.
Lorraine, Fifth Ave. & 45th St.
Lucerne, 79tn St. & Amsterdam Ave.
Majestic, Central Park West & 72d
St.
Manhattan, Madison Ave. & 42d St.
Manhattan Square, 50 W. 77th St.
Marie Antoinette, Broadway &
66th St.
Marlborough-Blenheim, Broadway
& 36th St.
Marseille, Broadway & 103d St.
Martha Washington, 29 E. 29th St.
Martinique, Broadway & 33d St
Maryland, 104 W. 49th St.
McAlpin, Broadway & 34th St.
Murray Hill, Park Ave. & 40th St.
Narragansett, Broadway & 93d St.
Navarre, Seventh Ave. & 38th St.
Netherland, Fifth Ave. & 59th St.
New Victoria, 155 W. 47th St.
New Weston, Madison Ave. &
49th St.
Normandie, Broadway & 38th St.
Oxford, Park Ave. & 58th St.
JPark Avenue, Park Ave. & 32d St.
Plaza, Fifth Ave. & 59th St.
Prince George, 14 E. 28th St.
Raymond, 42 E. 28th St.
Renaissance, 512 Fifth Ave.
Roland, 56 E. 59th St.
Rutledge, Lexington Ave. & 30th St.
Saint Andrew, Broadway & 72d St.
Saint Denis. Broadway & llth St.
St. George, 49 E. 12th St.
Saint James. 109 W. 45th St.
Saint Lorenz. Lexington Ave. &
72d St.
Saint Louis, 32 E. 32d St.
Saint Paul, Columbus Ave. &
60th St.
Saint Regis, Fifth Ave, & 55th St.
San Remo, Central Park West &
74th St.
Savoy, Fifth Ave. & 59th St.
Schuyler, 59 W. 45th St.
Seville, Madison Ave. & 29th St.
Seymour, 44 W. 45th St.
Sherman bauare, Broadway &
71st St.
Sherry's, Fifth Ave. & 44th St.
Somerset. 150 W. 47th St.
Theresa. 7th Ave. & 125th St.
Touraine. 9 E. 39th St.
Union Square. 15th St. & Union Sq.
Van Cortlandt, 142 W. 49th St.
Van Rennseiaer, 15 E. llth St.
Vanderbilt. Park Ave. & 34th St.
Waldort-Astona, Fifth Ave. &
34th St.
Wallick. Broadway & 43d St.
Webster. 40 W. 45th St.
Wellington. Seventh Ave. & 55th
St.
Willard, 252 W. 76th St.
Wolcott. Fifth Ave. & 31st St.
Woodstock. 127 W. 43d St.
Woodward. Broadway & 55th St.
York, Seventh Ave. & 36th St.
TELEGRAPH HEADQUARTERS
Western Union: Corner of Broadway & Dey St.
Postal Telegraph & Commercial Cable: Broadway
Murray St.
POST OFFICE
The general post office is located on Broadway and Park
Row, adjoining City Hall Park on the south. It can be con-
veniently reached by Subway (Interborough Rapid Transit
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System), Fulton St. or Brooklyn Bridge stations; Third Ave.
Elevated, Brooklyn Bridge Station ; Sixth Ave. Elevated, Park
PI. Station; Ninth Ave. Elevated, Barclay St. Station; Madi-
son Ave. surface cars (Brooklyn Bridge Line); Broadway
surface cars (all down-town lines); Third Ave surface cars
(post office lines) ; Lexington Ave. surface cars, via 23d St. and
Broadway.
Pennsylvania Terminal Post Office, located on 8th Ave.,
between 3Oth and 33d Sts., two blocks from Broadway and
6th Ave. and Hudson and Manhattan tubes.
Grand Central, Hudson Terminal and Madison Sq. Stations
are open on week days from 7 a.m. to 12 midnight; money
order business, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
All other carrier stations are open on weekdays from 7 a.m.
to 8 p.m. ; money order business, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
BROADWAY
This is one of the most famous, as well as one of the
longest streets in the world. It extends from Bowling Green
to Yonkers.
Low Memorial Library
116th Street, West of Amsterdam Ave.
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Mott Street, Chinatown
Off Chatham Square, West of the Bowery
Page 58
The buildings on the east side (right hand going north)
are given even numbers; those on the west side odd numbers.
NOTE : Lists of hotels, clubs, and theaters will, be found on
other pages.
No. 100 — American Surety Bldg.
No. Ill— Thames St. Trinity Bldg.
No. 120— Equitable Bldg.
No. 115— Cedar St. U. S. Realty
Bldg.
No. 149— Liberty St. Singer Bldg.
No. 160— Cortlandt St. Lawyer's
Title, Insuance & Trust Co.
No. 165— City Investing Bldg.
No. 170— Maiden Lane.
No. 176— Title, Guarantee & Trust
Co.
No. 192— John St. Chatham &
Phenix National Bank.
Starting from Bowling Green
No. 1 — Washington Bldg., site of
Kennedy House, headquarters of
Generals Washington and Lee.
No. 2 — Produce Exchange, site of
Lead Statue of King George III,
destroyed by the people July 9,
1776, and cast into bullets for
Revolutionary War.
No. 26— Standard Oil Bldg.
No. 29— Morris St. Columbia Bldg.
No. 41 —Hamburg - American, site
of first residence on Manhattan
Island.
No. 53 — Adams Express Co.
No. 61 — American Express Co. Bldg.
No. 66— Manhattan Life Bldg.
No. 71— Rector St. Empire Bldg.
Wall St. Trinity Church and
Cemetery.
No. 195 — Dey St. Western Union
Telegraph Bldg.
No. 203— Fulton St.Mail&Express.
St. Paul's Chapel (erected 1776)
and Cemetery.
No. 206 — Fulton St. Evening Post
Bldg.
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No. 225 — Vesey and Barclay Sts.
No. 270— Ann St. St. Paul Bldg.
Barclay St. Park PL, Wool worth
Bldg. Park Row— Mail St. Post
Office.
No. 247 — Murray St. Importers &
Traders National Bank.
Chambers St. City Hall Park;
City Hall; County Court House;
Statue Nathan Hale.
No. 253— Murray St. Postal Bldg.
Washington Trust Co.
No. 256— Home Life Bldg.
No. 258— Warren St.
No. 271— Chambers St. National
Shoe & Leather Bank.
No. 290 — Reade St.
No. 291 — East River Savings Insti-
tution.
No. 340 — Leonard St. New York
Life Bldg.
No. 422 — Howard St. Station "S"
Post Office.
No. 611— W. Houston St. Cable
Bldg.
E. 8th St.— John Wanamaker's
Department Store.
E. loth St.— Grace Church.
E. i4th St.— Union Square.
No. 881— E. igth St. Arnold Con-
stable & Co. Dry Goods Store.
22d-23d Sts.— Flatiron Bldg.
W. 23d St.— W. 25th St Madison
Sq., Worth Monument. Fifth
Ave. Bldg.
W. 32d to 33d Sts. (Sixth Ave.).—
Gimbel Bros. Department Store
W. 33d St Greeley Sq.
W. 33d-34th Sts.— Saks & Co.
Department Store. Herald Sq.
W. 34th -35th Sts.— R. H. Macy
Department Store.
W. 35th St.— New York Herald
Bldg.
No. 1451 — W. 4ist St. Commercial
Trust Co.
W. 42d St. — Times Square; Long-
acre Bldg. ; Times Bldg.
W. 56th St.— Broadway Taber-
nacle (Congregational).
W. sgth St. (Central Park West)—
Columbus Circle; Columbus
Monument; National Maine
Memorial; Merchants' Gate to
Central Park.
W. 63d St Lincoln Sq.
W. 7ist St.— Blessed Sacraments
R. C. Church.
W. 73d St.— Sherman Sq.; Statue
of Verdi; Manhattan Congre-
gational Church.
W. 79th St.— First Baptist Church,
founded A. D. 1745.
Columbia University
Broadway, Amsterdam Ave., 116th to 120th Street
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FIFTH AVENUE
Starting from Washington Square. Odd numbers are on
the east or right hand side going north; even numbers on the
west side, except between 5gth and loist Sts. Central Park
occupies the west side of the avenue.
NOTE: Lists of hotels, clubs, and theaters will be found on other pages.
No. 21 — Former residence of Mark No. 607 — Mrs. Mary R. Gardner.
Twain.
W. lothSt Church of the Ascen-
sion.
W. I2th St.— Old First Presby-
terian Church.
E. igth St., No. 115— Arnold Con-
stable & Co. Dry Goods Store.
W. 20th St., No. 150— Methodist
Book Concern.
E. 22d to 23d St — Flatiron Bldg.
23d St., No. 200— Fifth Ave. Bldg.
23d to 26th St. (East side)— Madi-
son Sq., Worth Monument.
E. 26th St. — Farragut Monument.
W.2gth St.— The Marble Collegiate
ReformProtestantDutch Church
E. 34th St.— B. Altman & Co.
Department Store.
No. 377 — Residence of Mrs. Gor-
don Nome.
No. 379 — John A. Hadden, Jr.
E. 37th St., No. 401— Tiffany & Co.
W. 37th St., No. 412— Brick Pres-
byterian Church.
W. 38th St. — Lord & Taylor
Department Store.
W. 3Qth St A. A. Vantine&Co.
Oriental Department Store.
E. 40th St., Arnold, Constable Co.
42d St. — New York Public Library.
No. 511 — Residence of Richard
Thornton Wilson, Jr.
E. 43d St. — Temple Emanu-El.
W. 44th — Fifth Avenue Bank.
E. 45th St., No. 551 — Church of
the Heavenly Rest.
No. 555 — Mrs. James R. Jessup.
E. 47th St., No. 579 — Mrs. F. J.
Shepard (Miss Helen Miller
Gould).
No. 585 — Captain Warren C.
Beach.
E. 48th St., No. 591 — Mrs. Robert
Goelet.
W. 48th St. — Collegiate Church of
St. Nicholas.
No. 604 — Mrs. Russell Sage.
No 609— Miss E. W. White.
W. 49th St. — Mrs. Ogden Goelet.
John Innes Kane.
No. 612 — Frederick S. Flower.
No. 616— Mrs. Daniel Butterfield.
No. 620 — Chas. F. Hoffman.
No. 622 — August Hecksher.
W. 50th St. — Geo. Henry Sargent.
E. soth-5ist St. — St. Patrick's
Cathedral.
No. 645 — Wm. B. Osgood Field.
No. 647 — Robert Goelet.
E. 52d St.— Morton F. Plant.
W. 52d St., No. 660— Wm. K. Van-
derbilt.
No. 666— Mrs. Wm. K. Vanderbilt,
Jr.
W. 53d St.— St. Thomas Episcopal
Church.
E. 53d St., No. 673 — James Tolman
Pyle.
No. 675 — Samuel Untermeyer.
No. 677 — Cornelius Vanderbilt.
W. 54th St., No. 684— Mrs. Hamil-
ton McK. Twombly.
E. 54th St.— Chas. W. Harkness.
No. 689— Wm.^ Rockefeller. ^
No. 693 — W. Kirkpatrick Brice.
No. 695 — Mrs. Benjamin B. Brew-
ster.
W. 55th St.— Fifth Ave. Presby-
terian Church.
E. 55th St., No. 707— Francis de R.
Wissman.
No. 711 — Adrian Iselin, Jr.
E. 56th St., No. 721— Mrs. Ambrose
C. Kingsland.
No. 723 — John Markle.
No. 725 — Mrs. Marcus Daly;
James Watson Gerald.
No. 726— Mrs. Louis T. Hoyt.
E. 57th St.— Mrs. Collis P. Hunt-
ington, Mrs. Herman Oelrichs.
No. 741 — Joseph Guggenheim.
No. 743— S. R. Guggenheim.
No. 745 — Wm. E. Iselin.
W. 57th St. — Mrs. Cornelius Van-
derbilt.
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W. 58th St.— The Plaza.
W. 59th St.— Scholar's Gate to Cen-
tral Park; Equestrian Statue of
General William T. Sherman.
E. 6ist St.— Elbridge T. Gerry.
No. 800 — Mrs. Jabez A. Bostwick.
No. 803— Preston Pope Satterwhite.
No. 804— William Emlen Roosevelt.
No. 805 — William Lanman Bull.
E. 62d St., No. 810— Hamilton Fish
No. 811 — Francis L. Loring.
No. 812 — George G. McMurty.
No. 813 — Hugh J. Chisholm.
No. 814 — Mrs. Thomas Rutter.
No. 816 — Robert L. Gerry.
E. 63d St., No. 817 — Clarence
Postley.
No. 824 — James Powell Kernochan.
No. 825 — Clifford V. Brokaw.
No. 826 — Henry Mortimer Brooks.
E. 64th St., No. 828 — Edward J.
Berwind.
No. 830 — James Benali Haggin.
No. 833 — William Guggenheim.
No. 834 — Frank Jay Gould.
No. 835— John W. Herbert.
No. 836 — Mrs. Isador Wormser.
E. 65th St., No. 838 — William
Watts Sherman.
No. 840 — Mrs. John Jacob Astor.
No. 845 — Grant Barney Schley.
E. 66th St. — Mrs. Henry O. Have-
meyer.
No. 852 — Col. Oliver H. Payne.
No. 854 — Benjamin Thaw.
E. 67th St.— Judge Gerry.
No. 857— George J. Gould.
No. 858 — Thomas F. Ryan.
68th St., No. 871 — Harry Payne
Whitney.
No. 874 — Mrs. Joseph Stickney.
No. 875 — Daniel Gray Reid.
No. 876 — Francis Burton Harrison.
E. 6gth St. — Ogden Mills, Mrs. E.
H. Harriman.
No. 88 1 — Heber Bishop.
No. 883 — Mrs. John Sloane.
E. 7oth St.— Henry Clay Frick.
E. 7ist St.— Mrs. Nathalie E.Balies.
E. 72d St., No. 908 — Mrs. Aber-
crombie Burden.
No. 912 — James O. Bloss.
John W. Sterling.
No. 914 — Samuel Thorne.
No. 922 — Nicholas F. Palmer.
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No. 923 — Mrs. Randolph Guggen-
heimer.
Phillip Lewisohn.
No. 924 — George Henry Warren.
No. 925 — Mrs. Herbert Leslie
Terrell.
No. 926 — John Woodruff Simpson.
E. 74th St., No. 929 — Livingston
Crosby. Rev. Alfred Duane Pell.
No. 930 — Simeon B. Chapin.
No. 932 — Mortimer L. Schiff.
No. 933 — Lamon V. Harkness.
No. 934— Mrs. Alfred M. Hoyt.
E. 75th St., No. 936— Edwin Gould.
Edward S. Harkness.
E. 76th St. — Temple Beth-El, Mrs.
J. J. Wysong.
No. 954 — Samuel W. Bridgham.
No. 955 — J. Horace Harding.
E. 77th St., No. 962 — William
Andrews Clark.
No. 963 — Charles Fred Dieterich.
No. 964— Mrs. George II. Butler.
No. 965— Jacob H. Schiff.
E. 78th St. — Judge Abram R. Law-
rence. James B. Duke.
No. 972 — Payne Whitney.
E. 79th St. — Isaac V. Brokaw.
No. 984 — Howard C. Brokaw.
No. 985 — Irving Brokaw.
No. 986 — William J. Curtis.
No. 987 — Walter Lewisohn.
No. 988 — Hugh A. Murray.
E. 8oth St., No. 989— Nicholas F.
Brady.
No. 990 — Frank W. Wool worth.
No. 991 — David Crawford Clark.
No. 993 — Louis Stern.
No. 1007 — Henry C. Timmerman.
No. 1007 — Orville Tobey.
No. 1008 — Capt. James Berry
Drouillard.
E. 82d St. — Metropolitan Museum
of Art (West Side).
No. 1014 — James F. A. Clark.
No. 1015 — Anthony J. Drexel, Jr.
E. 83d St., No. 1020— William *
Solomon.
No. 1025 — Lloyd Stevens Bryce.
No. 1026 — Mrs. William M. Kings-
land.
No. 1027 — George Crawford Clark.
E. 84th St., No. 1028 — Jonathan
Thorne.
No. 1030 — Miss Catherine L.
Hammersley.
No. 1032 — Comtesse Annie Leary
No. 1033 — George Smith.
No. 1034— Herbert D. Robbiris.
E. 85th St.— J. B. Clews.
No. 1041 — Lloyd Warren.
No. 1043 — Morton L. Adler.
David Meyer.
No. 1044 — Mrs. James Hedges
Crowcll.
E. 86th St., No. 1047— Starr Miller.
No. 1053 — George Leary.
No. 1056 — Charles Page Perm.
E. 87th St., No. 1058— James
Speyer.
No. 1063 — Henry Phipps.
No. 1068 — Leonard Stein.
E. 88th St.— William Pollock.
No. 1072 — John H. Hanan.
E. Sgth St.— B. N. Duke.
No. 1081 — McLane Van Ingen.
No. 1082— Chas. S. Phillips.
No. 1083 — Archer M. Huntington.
E. goth St. — Andrew Carnegie.
E. 9 ist St. — Carnegie Play Ground.
E. 92d St. — I. Townsend Burden.
No. 1109 — Felix N. Warburg.
E. 93d St., No. 1116 — Jacob Rup-
pert.
E. 100 St., E. loist St. — Mount
Sinai Hospital.
WALL STREET
In 1652 the defenseless condition of New York led Gov-
ernor Stuyvesant to fortify the little Dutch town against
a probable attack by Indians or hostile New England colo-
nists. A line of palisades was planted from river to river
[Pearl to Greenwich Sts., just above the Herre Craft (Broad
St. Inlet)], and banked up with earth, leaving a broad space
within cleared for the convenience of the defenders. This
"wall" rapidly decayed, but was repaired from time to time,
and after the capture of the city by the English, in 1663, was
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substantially rebuilt and defended by stone bastions at the gates
at Broadway and the East River, and by an "artillery mount"
at Williams St. Meanwhile houses were built along the cleared
space within the palisade, and it finally was recognized as a
street, naturally named Wall St. Not until the beginning of
the eighteenth century were any streets north of Wall St. laid
out. All that tract was "Damen's farms" as far north as
"the Maiden's Path (Maiden Lane), which was a very ancient road,
its course through the valley the easiest route of passage from the two
great highways along the North and East River sides."
From the very first, Wall St. was a choice street in the grow-
ing town, where the best people lived, and it retained this resi-
dential character, with little business intermingled (except near
its foot, where the slave market stood), until after the Revolution.
"The financial institutions of the city became concentrated here
gradually, having been first drawn to the locality and then kept there
for some time by the fact that nearly all the government buildings stood
on the street. The City Hall was here before its removal to its present
site; so were the Courts; and the first Congress of the United States,
after the adoption of the Constitution, assembled in the building which
covered the site of the present Sub-treasury."
Now "Wall St." stands not only for the assemblage of great
financial institu-
tions which line its
quarter-mile but for
the whole body of
dealings in money
and securities that
go on in New York
under the head of
the Stock Exchange;
yet the offices of
many of the wealth-
iest and most
influential of the
financiers credited
to "Wall St." are
several blocks away
from that short av-
enue, whose paving
stones might be
replaced by gold
bricks without ex-
hausting the vaults
of wealth and the
world-wide re-
sources which the
Street represents. page so
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No. 10 Wall St.,
at the head of New
St., is the splendid
Astor Bldg., on
the site formerly
occupied by the
First Presbyterian
Church.
Corner of Wall
& Broadway, The
United Bank Bldg.
Here are the rooms
of its joint owners,
the First National
Bank and the Bank
of the Republic; of
several private
banking firms, and
of Southern and
Western railway
companies. Here
General Grant had
his offices during
his brief and ill-
fated career in the
"Street."
Corner Wall & Nassau Sts., Bankers Trust Company
Bldg., 39 stories; height, 539 ft. The ground cost $825 per
sq. ft., said to be the highest price ever paid for land any-
where in the world.
No. 23 Wall St. is the new extensive offices of J. P.
(Pierpont) Morgan & Co., of world-wide fame. (Formerly
the house of Drexel, Morgan & Co. )
No. 30 Wall St., The Assay Office, now being rebuilt on
the site of what was the oldest building in the street (erected in
1823), and at an earlier period occupied by the Verplanck man-
sion. It is open to visitors from 2 to 4 p.m. and is well worth
visiting.
"Every operation is here carried on that is done in the Mint, except
the actual stamping of the money. In the front are the offices of the
assayer, and the room where accrued bullion is received and paid for; and
in the six-story building at the rear it is assayed, refined, separated,
and cast into bars. Gold and silver are here to be seen in great profusion,
the former generally in bars weighing from 250 to 300 ounces, and worth
from $5,000 to $6,000, and the latter in bars weighing about 200 ounces and
worth $110. The gold which is used in the arts is generally in thick, square
plates, worth from $100 to $800. The most noticeable curiosities are
Washington Arch
Washington Square and Fifth Ave.
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the hydraulic press, by which a great quantity of silver is compressed
into a round body not unlike a milk can; the crystallizing vats, where
the metal is subjected to the action of powerful acids; and the melting
room, where at intervals the gold and silver are poured off. From twenty
to one hundred millions of crude bullion are here received, and assayed,
in the course of a year."
The Sub-treasury is the large Doric building of granite
extending from the Assay Office to Nassau St. and reaching
through to Pine St. in the rear. It stands upon the site once
occupied by the old Dutch City Hall and by the subsequent
Federal Hall, where Washington was inaugurated first
President of the United States, in 1789. The broad flight of
steps is now broken by a pedestal bearing J. Q. A. Ward's
colossal bronze statue of Washington taking the oath, which
was paid for by popular subscription, and unveiled in 1883.
The Sub-treasury Bldg. was first erected for the Custom House,
but was long ago outgrown and remodeled for its present
purpose. Within there is a rotunda 60 ft. in diameter, the
dome being supported by 16 Corinthian columns. More
money is stored in this building than anywhere else in the
country, except in the Treasury vaults at Washington.
Most of the money paid out by the general government is in
drafts upon this Sub-treasury. At the east front of the build-
ing there is a tablet representing Washington at prayer at
Valley Forge; and on the west front a tablet commemorating
the passage by Congress of the Ordinance of 1787, and the
purchase, by The Ohio Company of Associates, of lands in the
Northwest Territory.
No. 40 Wall St., the Bank of the Manhattan Company,
founded 1709.
No. 42 Wall St., the Merchants Bank, founded 1803.
At the corner of Wall & Williams Sts. may be seen the
corner stone of the Bank of New York, the oldest New York
bank, founded by Alexander Hamilton and others in 1784.
BIG BUILDINGS
Grand Central Terminal. Park Ave. and 42d St. In the
construction of this monumental gateway the aim has been to
combine beauty and magnitude with convenience and service-
ability, so that the many thousands of travelers from all parts
of the country, and those from abroad, strangers in a strange
land, may go about the Terminal with as little confusion as in
passing from one room to another in their own homes.
The Terminal area proper is dominated by the main
building, the exterior finish of which is granite and Indiana
limestone. In designing this building the architects had in
mind to express the old terminal idea — the gateway to a city.
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Grand Central Terminal
Park Ave. and 42d Street
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Hence the central part of the facade is in the form of a
triumphal arch of imposing proportions, surmounted by
a statuary group representing "Progress," "Mental" and
"Physical Force."
The outbound Concourse, a magnificent room 275 ft. long,
120 ft. wide, and 125 ft. high, is the principal feature of the
main building. In the Concourse are all the facilities usually
found in the waiting room of a railroad station — ticket office,
baggage-checking booth, parcel room, and information bureau.
Underneath the main Concourse is the suburban Concourse,
which is of about the same dimensions except as to height of
ceiling. It is laid out in the same convenient manner, and pro-
vides the same facilities as the main waiting room.
To furnish some idea of the immense size of this terminal
we give a few statistics: total area, 79 acres; tracks on f express
level, 42, local level, 25; capacity, 1,149 cars; length at street
level, 600 ft., width, 300 ft., and height, 105 ft; below street
level, length, 745 ft., width, 480 ft., and depth, 45 ft. All trains
in the terminal zone are operated by electricity.
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Railroads using this terminal are: New York Central
Lines, New York Central & Hudson River R. R., New York
& Harlem R. R., New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R.
Pennsylvania Station. This great structure, the main
station of the Pennsylvania Railroad in New York City, oc-
cupies two entire blocks, from Seventh Ave. to Eighth Ave.
and from 3ist St. to 33d St., and with underlying and ad-
joining yards covers nearly six city blocks. It is reached from
the west by twin tubes extending through Bergen Hill in New
Jersey, and under the Hudson River and part of New York
City. Eastward from the station two tubes extend under the
city streets, and four tubes carry the tracks under the East
River to the great Sunnyside yards in Long Island City.
The average height of the building is only 69 ft., with a
maximum height of 153 ft. in the roof over the general wait-
ing room, but the massive proportions make the station a strik-
ing architectural object most pleasing to the eye. Its frontage
on the avenues is 430 ft. and on the streets 784 ft., giving it the
greatest area of any building devoted to the exclusive use and
convenience of railroad passsengers. While in height it falls
Pennsylvania Station
Seventh Ave., 32d to 33d Street
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below the towering buildings for which New York is famous,
the expanse of the pavilion-like structure and its noble architec-
tural lines place it among the notable edifices of modern times.
The great colonnaded facades are suggestive of ancient Rome,
and this motif is still further carried out in the construction of
the imposing general waiting room, a model of the famous
Roman baths of Caracalla. In contrast to an exterior of gray
granite, travertine, the mellow, cream-tinted stone utilized for
centuries in the buildings of Rome, and brought from the
quarries in the Campagna, near Tivoli, Italy, is used for the
interior finishing of the arcade, general and other waiting
rooms, and the entire interior of the station.
The main entrance at Seventh Ave. and 32d St. leads to
the main waiting room through an arcade 225 ft. long and 45 ft.
wide, bordered on both sides by shops, and at its farther end ex-
panding into a loggia. In a niche in the loggia is a bronze statue
of Alexander Johnston Cassatt, former president of the Penn-
sylvania Railroad, under whose direction the plans for the
station were perfected. On either side of the loggia are well
appointed dining and luncheon rooms.
On the first level, a few steps below the street, is the general
waiting room, 227 ft. by 103 ft., and 150 ft. from floor to roof.
Lofty columns and mellow-tinted walls stamp this hall as
unique in rooms of its kind. In it are located ticket offices, par-
cel rooms, telegraph and telephone offices, and baggage-checking
windows. Directly adjoining are smaller waiting rooms with
seats, and retiring rooms for men and women.
Beyond, on the same level, is the Concourse, 340 ft. wide by
210 ft. long, in which are the entrances to the train platforms.
The platforms themselves are on the second level below. There
are twenty-one tracks with eleven platforms, each platform
having its own ascents and passenger and baggage elevators.
Outgoing and incoming passengers are segregated, and pass
in or out without meeting.
Above the station proper are the offices of the local operating
officials of the railroad.
The trains of the following railroads use this station:
Atlantic Coast Line; Chesapeake & Ohio; Long Island; New
York & Long Branch; Norfolk & Western; Pennsylvania;
Seaboard Air Line ; Southern.
Hudson Terminal Buildings. Church, Dey, Cortlandt, and
Fulton Sts. Each building contains 22 stories and is 275 ft.
9 in. high. The station is in the basement, below tide level,
surrounded by a reinforced concrete wall 8 ft. thick, 95 ft.
deep, 175 ft. wide, and more than 400 ft. long. There are
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Flatiron Building
Broadway, Fifth Ave. and 23d Street
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more than 30 acres of rent-
able office space and 50,000
people go in and out of the
offices daily in addition to
the great number who go in
and out of the railroad sta-
tion in the basement. Cost,
$5,000,000.
The Woolworth Building.
In general, the details of con-
struction of the Woolworth
Bldg., given fjelow, apply to
all other steel-frame skyscrap-
ers.
Broadway, from Barclay
St. to Park PI. This build-
ing stands 55 stories above
the sidewalk. Foundation,
sunk through 1 1 5 ft. of quick-
sand to bed rock, consists of
69 piers of partly reinforced
concrete. Each of the 60
main columns which distrib-
ute the weight of the whole
structure over a base of
31,000 sq. ft. is 3 ft. 6 in. by
3 ft. 8 in. at the base and is
designed to carry a maxi-
mum load of 4750 tons.
This allows for wind pressure,
weight of contents, and all
other possible strain. The
total weight of the building
is estimated at 125,000 tons.
The cross sectional area of
steel at the base of the
columns is 650 sq. in., and
the crushing stress resting
upon it amounts to about
14,600 pounds per sq. in.
Wind resistance is provided
for to a maximum pressure
of 30 pounds to the square
foot over the entire surface
exposed in any direction.
The height of the tower,
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including the 5 stories with-
in the pyramidal walls at
the top, is 730 ft. The ex-
treme height to the top of
the ornamental ball and
lantern is 750 ft. above the
sidewalk
The building contains
34 elevators, 4 of which
rise from the 1st to the 5ist
floors, a vertical distance
of 679}^ ft.
Equitable Assurance
Society Building. This
building, the latest of the
sky scrapers on lower Broad-
way, is located on the entire
block from Pine to Cedar
Sts. and from Broadway to
Nassau St. It is 38 stories
high and towers 537 feet
6 inches above curb line.
The building contains 48
elevators with a total track-
age of 20,240 feet, or
nearly four miles. The
building fully occupied will house about 15,000 workers.
Metropolitan Life Building. Madison Square. This
is one of the structural wonders of New York and of the world.
The tower is 75 by 85 ft., with a total height of 700 ft. The
highest lookout is reached at the balcony of the 5Oth story,
660 ft. above the sidewalk.
The clock in the tower is 350 ft. above the sidewalk. The
dials, of reinforced concrete, faced with mosaic tile, are each
26 ft. 6 in. in diameter. The figures on the dial are 4 ft.
high and the minute marks 10^2 in. in diameter. The minute
hand is 17 ft. long and weighs 1000 pounds. The hour hand
is 13 ft. 4 in. long and weighs 700 pounds.
Connected with the clock is a chime of 4 bells: D flat,
weighing 7000 pounds; E flat, 3000 pounds; F flat, 2000
pounds, and G, 1500 pounds. The hours are sounded on the
D-flat bell with an impact of 200 pounds. On the quarter hours
and half hours the bells ring out the historic chimes composed
by Handel. At night, in addition to the chimes and the ringing
of the hour, intricate electrical devices flash out the hour
and quarter hours, the quarter hours being flashed in red, i,
Peter Cooper, Cooper Square
Third Ave. and 7th Street
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2 , 3 , and 4 flashes respectively ; the hours in white. For illustra-
tion, a quarter before four is shown by three red flashes followed
by four white.
More than 3000 persons are employed in the building, of
whom 2000 are women and girls.
Singer Building. Corner Liberty St. & Broadway. 41
stories; height, 612 ft. from sidewalk; 724 ft. from basement
to top of flagstaff; 9^ acres floor space. No wood is used in
or on the building. The building contains 552 vacuum cleaners,
600 lavatories, 3425 miles of wiring. The boilers require 18,-
000,000 gallons of water and 8000 tons of coal annually. Eigh-
teen incandescent and 25 search lights, with 13,000,000 candle-
power, provide exterior illumination and make the tower visible
for a distance of 40 miles.
Flatiron Building. Broadway & 23d St. 21 stories; height,
286 ft. Cost, including ground, $4,800,000.
PLACES OF INTEREST
The Statue of Liberty. Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty,
the largest statue of modern times, stands upon Bedloe's
Island, i^<4 miles southwest of the Battery. From 9 a.m. to
5 p.m. the statue may be reached by boat from the Battery.
The statue is the result of an impression made upon Bartholdi
during a voyage to the United States, by the eagerness with
which the immigrants crowded the decks for a first glimpse of
the new land to which they were coming with such hope and
confidence. When he went home he proposed that a popular
subscription should be opened in France to present to the
people of the United States a statue representing Liberty. More
than $200,000 was collected, and in 1879 Bartholdi began work
upon the statue.
DIMENSIONS
FT. IN. FT. IN.
Height from base to torch. 151 I Right arm, greatest thick-
Foundation of pedestal to ness .................. 12 o
torch ................. 305 6 Waist, thickness ......... 35 o
Heel to top of head ....... 114 6 Mouth, width ........... 3 o
Hand, length ........... 16 5 Tablet, length ........... 23 7
Index finger, length ..... 8 o Tablet, thickness ........ 2 o
Index finger, circumference Pedestal, height ......... 89 o
al second joint ......... 7
' 3 '
Square gides ftt bage> each> 62
Heafrorn'chinVo cranl Square sides at top, each. .. 40 o
jum In 3 Grecian columns, above
Head, 'through from "ear base ........ ; ......... ?2 8
to ear ................. 10 o Foundation, height ....... 65 o
Eye, distance across ____ 2 6 Square sides at bottom,
Nose, length ........... 4 6 each .................. 91
Right arm, length ........ 42 o Square sides at top, each. . . 66 7
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Appellate Court Building
Madison Ave. and 25th Street
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Chinatown. Mott St. from Bayard to Chatham Sq. is
the heart of Chinatown. Here, or in the immediate neighbor-
hood, live the majority of the Chinese of New York. Here are
the joss houses, the civil officers of the colony, the merchants,
tailors, and shoemakers, the lodging houses and restaurants,
the gambling rooms and opium-smoking dens.
The Chinese stores are always open to visitors, and in
each of them a clerk or proprietor speaking English will be
found. The stock is mainly imported direct, and includes a wide
range of goods. The people maintain habits of personal
cleanliness and their streets are by all odds the cleanest in
that part of the city. The buildings in which they live are
well swept and kept in good repair, and their quarters, though
smelling of incense smoke, and otherwise strangely malodorous
to Caucasian nostrils, despite their crowded condition far sur-
pass in wholesome cleanliness the tenements of the foreigners
around them.
At the Joss House, 16 Mott St., one side of the room is filled
with a great shrine of magnificently carved ebony columns
and arches, within which carved figures covered with gold leaf
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are placed, the whole somewhat resembling the stage setting
of a tiny theater. The extreme back of the shrine is occupied
by a half-length painting representing, the Chinese will tell
you, Gwan Owing Te, the only original god of the Chinese
Empire. On his left side is the woman-like figure of his grand
secretary, Lee Poo, and on his right, in fiercest battle array,
is Tu Chong, the grand bodyguard. A row of candles, set like
theater footlights, illuminates the painting and brings out all
of its oriental splendor. About three feet in front of the shrine
is a massive carved table upon which are arranged the brass
jars, joss sticks, sandal-wood urns, and all the offerings and
sacrifices peculiar to this worship. It is before this table,
after lighting his incense sticks and his sacred paper, that the
Mongolian worshiper makes his devotional salaams, pours his
tiny libation of rice wine, and repeats the ritual of prayers
enjoined upon him. The religion of the Chinese, as manifested
here, is, however, accompanied by little feeling of reverence.
The Bowery. There is
Dickens here found
and Thackeray was
see this street and its
times they wrote of
Civil War and the com-
immigrants. Americans
from this part of New
no other such street in America.
material to his taste,
anxious first of all to
habitues. But the
passed away with the
ing of multitudes of
have almost disappeared
York, giving way to the
Farragut Memorial
Madison Square Park
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German and the Jew, who are good-natured and frugal even
in their amusements. Larger buildings and better shops are
found year by year, and the Bowery is gradually but steadily
improving in character.
The Russian Quarter. Chatham Sq., East Broadway, a
semi-fashionable thoroughfare half a century ago, is now the
central avenue of the Russian arid Polish quarter in so far as
those people can be separated from Jews, Bohemians, and
Hungarians, who throng a square mile of marvelously crowded
tenements in this region. Here among his countrymen dwells
many a political refugee or escaped soldier from the dominion
of the Czar. Signs in Russian letters are frequent.
"Judea." In wandering about Forsythe, Allen, Orchard,
Ludlow, Hester, and Canal Sts., one sees six and seven-story
brick tenement houses, crowded to their eaves with humanity.
A certain square mile in this part of town holds a quarter of
a million persons. Nine tenths of them are Germans or German
Jews and Bohemians. They are the hardest working part
of the population, and spend the least part of what they earn.
Here in "Judea" the fakers and peddlers who throng the
lower part of the town get their supplies and learn how to
earn their livelihood, even before they have any idea of the
language of the country.
Baxter Street. In the daytime this narrow, short, and dingy
thoroughfare will repay one's curiosity. The street, more
commonly spoken of as "the Bay," has always been known for
its cheap-clothing business, and shop after shop on both sides
is given over entirely to Hebrews, who appropriate the greater
part of the sidewalks for the display of their various "bargains."
The Mulberry Bend. Mulberry St. is narrow and dark.
Six-story tenements rise in a solid wall on either hand,
the first floors occupied by shops of various kinds. If it
be a hot summer evening everybody is out of doors, half of
the people asleep on trucks, doorsteps, or the cellar doors.
Thither the mothers have brought pillows, or maybe a
mattress for their children to lie upon , and there they remain
all night. The park recently laid out here has cleared away
some of the worst of these squalid tenements, and opened the
"Points" and the "Bend" to fresh air and green grass. Here
a rest house has been built and the park contains many seats.
Jumel Mansion. i6oth & Jumel PI. Built about 1763.
This was Washington's headquarters, September 14 to October
21, 1776. Lieutenant-general Sir Henry Clinton maintained
the headquarters of the British army here during the summer
of 1777. Lieutenant-general Baron Von Kuyphausen and his
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German staff occupied the mansion in the summer of 1778;
and in the last years of the Revolution, Lieutenant-general
Von Losberg resided here. In 1 790 Washington and his Cabinet
dined at the mansion, the guests including Alexander Hamilton,
John and Abigail Adams, General Knox, John Park, Thomas
Jefferson, and Nellie Custis.
Stephen Jumel bought the place in 1810, and in 1815 went
to Prance to bring Napoleon to America. After Jumel's death
in 1832, Mme. Jumel married Aaron Burr. The union, however,
was of short duration. Among the distinguished visitors dur-
ing the Jumel regime were Louis, Jerome, and Joseph Bona-
parte. Mme. Jumel died in 1865. Her niece became the wife
of Nelson Chase, and the Chases lived here for about fifty
years. It was in this mansion that Fitz-Greene Halleck wrote
Marco Bozzaris. The city of New York purchased the property
in 1903 for $235,000, and it is now a museum of relics of the
Revolutionary period.
Fraunces' Tavern. Corner Pearl & Broad Sts. Built in
1700. Here in December, 1783, General Washington took
leave of his officers and aides. The Sons of the Revolution have
'Little Church around the Corner'
Church of the Transfiguration
29th Street near Fifth Ave.
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restored the building. The first floor is a tavern. The second
floor "long room." contains historical relics.
47 Broad St. Here, seventy years ago, lived the Shaw
family, friends of the Poe's; and here Edgar Allen Poe wrote
"The Bells," the suggestion arising — so it has been assumed —
at the ringing of the church bells on a Sunday morning.
The Maine Memorial. This monument to the heroes who
lost their lives by the explosion which destroyed the battleship
"Maine" is located at the Columbus Circle entrance to Central
Park. The cost, $175,000, was contributed by more than a
million persons.
Of the statues, commemorative tablets, busts, and places
of interest not mentioned elsewhere in this book, the following
are the more noteworthy:
Peter Cooper — Fourth Ave. & Bowery.
Washington Irving — Bryant Park.
19 Broadway— Once the home of Daniel Webster.
84th & Broadway — Poe Cottage. " The Raven" written here.
119 Pearl St.— Captain Kidd lived.
126 William St. — Washington Irving lived.
90 William St. — Lafayette lived.
309 Bleecker St. — Tom Paine lived.
59 Grove St.— Tom Paine died.
82 Jane St.— Site of house in which Alexander Hamilton died.
24 West 1 6th St.— Home of William Cullen Bryant.
142 East i8th St. — Bayard Taylor's home.
PARKS AND DRIVES
Battery Park. At the southern extremity of Manhattan,
this park contains 21 acres, the greater part of which is made
ground. It is shaded by large trees and provided with a
great number of seats, always crowded with quaint immigrants
and loungers. A broad walk runs along the seawall, at the
eastern end of which stands the Revenue Barge Office, a branch
of the customhouse, surmounted by a tower 90 ft. high.
Beyond this lies the group of ferries to Brooklyn and Staten
Island, known collectively as South Ferry. In 1893 the Battery
was adorned by a bronze statue of John Ericsson, the great
engineer, inventor of the marine screw propeller and designer
of the "Monitor." This statue stands near the Barge Office.
It was designed by J. S. Hartley and erected by the city. The
granite pedestal bears panels in low relief commemorating the
deeds of the "Monitor."
Originally Manhattan Island was rounded at the end, and
bordered with rocks hardly covered at high tide. Upon the
outermost of these a fortification in the form of a water-battery
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was built very early in the
history of the city, and re-
built, but not much used,
at the time of the Revolu-
tion. This accounts for the
name of the park. Among
the defenses projected at
the close of the i8th cen-
tury was a new fort here,
upon the bordering rocks.
It was completed in 1805,
and was named Fort Clin-
ton, after Governor George
Clinton. This is the struc-
ture since modified into
Castle Garden, now the
Aquarium. After the war
Fort Clinton was kept in
good military shape for
only a few years, because
the defense of other ap-
proaches to the city had
made it practically useless.
It was deeded to the state
in 1822. Then began its civil existence, which is more interesting
than its military history. From 1824, when Lafayette landed
there on his visit to this country, until 1853, when theatrical
representations of a rather cheap sort were produced there, the
fort was a popular resort. Andrew Jackson was given a recep-
tion at this place in 1832, and here in 1843 President Tyler was
greeted.
In 1847 Castle Garden was remodeled inside, shut in with
a high roof, and fitted up as a luxurious place of amusement.
The Havana Opera Company, the leading opera organization
of the period, appeared there, and many fine plays were given.
Then followed the wonderful introduction of Jenny Lind by
P. T. Barnum, when the town went wild over the Swedish
diva. Other notable visitors were Kossuth, President Van
Buren, and Morse, the inventor of the telegraph. In 1855
Castle Garden became the state immigrant depot, and nearly
ten millions of immigrants passed through its halls.
In 1891, however, the United States took charge of immigra-
tion, abandoned Castle Garden, and established a new depot
upon Ellis Island.
Horace Greeley
Greeley Square
33d Street and Sixth Ave.
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St. Patrick's Cathedral
Fifth Ave. and Sith Street
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The Aquarium is in
charge of city officials
and will repay inspec-
tion. The floor of the
old fort is occupied by
open tanks for large
fishes, seals, great tur-
tles, and other marine
forms, and the walls
are encircled by glass-
fronted wall tanks con-
taining an extensive
display of the fishes of
our waters, both salt
and fresh. The circular
gallery above the wall
tanks is occupied by
tanks in which are liv-
ing, amid fixed aquatic
growths, a rich collec-
tion of small corals,
anemones, mollusks,
crustaceans, and other
specimens of sea life of
great interest and
beauty. Everything is
fully labeled. Admit-
tance free from loa.m.
to 4 p.m. daily.
Bowling Green. A
small oval shrubbery in
the triangular space at
the foot of Broadway.
It is the oldest park in
the city, and in early
Colonial days was a
market place for the
little Dutch town, whose
narrow and intricate
streets were laid out
between it and East
River. The English
made a little park of it,
and some of the best
houses of pre-Revolu-
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tionary days overlooked its lawn. Here was erected that leaden
statue of George III which the spirited young Americans pulled
down in 1776, and out of which, tradition says, they molded
42,000 bullets to fire at the red-coated subjects of the detested
monarch.
The lower end of the park is now ornamented by a bronze
statue, excellent in design, of Abraham de Peyster, who, about
1700, was the principal merchant and most influential publicist
in New York. He sits in a chair ornamented with symbolic
bas-reliefs. The statue was the gift of his descendant, L. Watts
de Peyster, and the artist was G. E. Bissell, whose statue of
Watts adorns Trinity churchyard.
City Hall Park. A little spot of green on Broadway
three quarters of a mile above the Battery. The fine building
in its center, the City Hall, is interesting not only as the place
where the government of the city is conducted, but historically
and architecturally. The surrounding park is all that is left
of the ancient Commons, which extended northward to the
"Collect," or pond, beyond Duane St., where the Tombs now
rears its grim quadrangle. Here stood the old "Bridewell,"
the almshouse, the "new" jail near Chambers St., and a gib-
bet, all long since gone. Washington was present here at the
first reading of the Declaration of Independence.
The statue of
Nathan Hale should
not be overlooked.
It is a bronze, by
MacMonnies, and
stands in the south-
west corner of the
park, facing Broad-
way. The statue
represents Hale
ready for his heroic
death and is one of
the most spirited
and satisfactory
statues in the city.
Just across from
City Hall Park is
Printing House
Square, an open,
paved space in the
Temple Emanu-El Center of which
Fifth Ave. and 43d Street - TV,
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statue of Benjamin Franklin,
erected in 1872 at the expense
of Captain DeGroot, formerly
a steamboat commander on the
Hudson. Ward's statue of
Horace Greeley is just in front
of the Tribune Building.
NOTE: There is also an imposirg
statue of Horace Greeley by
Alexander Doyle in Greeley
Square, 336 Street and 6th Ave.
Around this limited space,
\vithin easy hail of one an-
other, are published the daily
Tribune, Sun, Journal, World,
and Press.
Stuyvesant Square. i5th
St. £ Second Ave. Stuyvesant
Square occupies the space of
four blocks and is filled with
fine old trees and surrounded
by elegant residences. This
was a part of the Stuyvesant
property, and its west side is
bounded by Rutherford PL,
preserving the name of another old family whose descendants
dwell near by. On this square remain former homes of many
old New York families.
Gramercy Park. 2oth & 2ist Sts. & Lexington Ave. This
park belongs to the owners of the surrounding property and
its privileges go with their title deeds. Its walks are reserved
for the nurses and children of the neighboring families. Here
dwells an aristocratic colony of old and wealthy families, who
have thus far withstood the advance of the commercial tide
northward. Among them are many well-known persons. On
the 2oth St. side, at Nos. 116-118, the late Governor Samuel
J. Tilden had his home, a palace among palaces; No. 120
is the club house of The Players. Other residences are those
of the late Cyrus W. Field, to whom we owe the Atlantic
cables; the late David Dudley Field, the eminent jurist;
Mrs. Cortlandt Palmer, at whose house, during the life
of her husband, the Nineteenth Century Club was wont to
meet; the late John Bigelow, the late Abram Hewitt, the
Coopers, William Steinway of piano fame, Nicholas Fish, the
Gen. Wm. T. Sherman
Fifth Ave. and 59th Street
Entrance to Central Park
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late Joseph Howard, of
newspaper repute, and of
many professional men.
Irving PL abuts upon the
south side of the square,
and is continued north-
ward from there to Harlem
as Lexington Ave.
Union Square. Broad-
way & 1 4th S t . Three and
one-half acres were set
apart here as a park in
1809. Outdoor meetings,
especially those called by
labor agitators, often take
place in the square, and
in summer a flower market
is held here every morning
from 5 to 8. Here Wash-
ington was received
November 25, 1783, and
in commemoration of this
event H. K. Browne's fine
equestrian statue of Wash-
ington has been placed in
the square. The statue is
, of heroic size, and stood
originally on the ground
now covered by the Cooper
Union.
At the southern end of the Square, where the crowd is always
greatest, is H. K. Browne's bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln,
representing the President seated in the chair of state, with the
emancipation proclamation in his hand. The statue was erected
by popular subscription soon after Lincoln's assassination.
Facing Broadway stands the life-size figure of Lafayette,
designed by Bartholdi, the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty.
Washington Square. At the southern terminus of Fifth
Ave. is Washington Park, nine acres in extent, occupying the
the site of the old Potter's Field, wherein more than 100,000
bodies were buried. Later the field was a military training
ground and camp for volunteer troops during the Civil War.
Its improvement is therefore more modern than the appearance
of the magnificent elms would indicate. The north side of
Washington Square is peculiarly impressive and interesting for
Pilgrim Fathers
Central Park
Near 72d Street and Fifth Ave.
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the style of the residences, many of which are still occupied
by affluent old families, conservative and too much in love with
past associations and with the beauty of the location to yield
to the behest of fashion and move uptown. Many well-known
literary men and artists dwell in this neighborhood.
The old gray Tudor halls of the University of the City of
New York, around which clung so many interesting memories,
will be missed from the west side of the Square, where they
have been replaced by a lofty modern structure. In the top
of the new building the university has resumed its sessions,
while the lower floors are devoted to business. The Italian
poor predominate among the crowds that throng here on plea-
sant evenings; and to the Italians the city owes the bronze
statue of Garibaldi which faces the fountain and is the work
of Giovanni Turini.
Washington Arch. The visitor passes from Fifth Ave. into
Washington Sq. under the noble curve of the Centennial Arch.
This arch, completed in 1893, was built of marble at a cost of
more than .$250,000. It succeeded the temporary structure
erected for the centennial celebration of the inauguration of the
first President of the
United States, which took
place in this city May i,
1889, with much pomp and
circumstance. The arch
was paid for by popular
subscriptions, mainly in
small amounts, and almost
wholly by residents of the
city. Its associations and
artistic value place it
among the foremost objects
of interest in the metrop-
olis.
Madison Square lies
between 23d & 26th Sts.,
Broadway & Madison &
Fifth Aves. Around the
square are the Madison
Square Garden, Dr.
Parkhurst's church (Pres-
byterian), Metropolitan
Life Insurance Bldg., Flat-
iron Bldg., Fifth Avenue
Office Bldg., Albemarle page 62
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Hotel, Hoffman House, Townsend Bldg., James Bldg., and the
office of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The works of art in Madison Sq. include a statue of Roscoe
Conkling in bronze, by Ward; of President Arthur, a bronze
by Bissell; of Wm. H. Seward, Lincoln's Secretary of State,
by Randolph Rogers; a monument over the tomb of Major
General William Jenkins Worth, a hero of the Mexican War;
the drinking fountain designed by Emma Stebbins and given to
the city by Miss Catherine Lorillard Wolfe; and the memorial
of Admiral Farragut by Augustus St. Gaudens, surmounting
a bench-like base designed by Stanford White.
Central Park. Two and a half miles long north and south
and half a mile wide, Central Park contains 879 acres of beauti-
ful lawns, wooded spaces, meadows, and lakes, nearly all due
to the skill of the expert landscape gardener. The park lies
between sgth & noth Sts., and Fifth Ave. & Central Park,
West. Nine miles of roads, 28 miles of walks, and more than
5 miles of bridle paths disclose its many and varied attrac-
tions. Located in about the center of Manhattan Borough,
it is easily reached by the various lines of travel, and may be
viewed by using the park carriages, taken at the $gth St. gate,
at Fifth & Eighth Aves.,and at noth St. & Lenox Ave, The
carriages make the circuit of the park in an hour. Fare, 25
cents, with stop-over privileges. There is also a line of electric
stages from the Fifth Ave. & 5gth St. entrances through the
park to 72d St., and via Riverside Drive to Grant's Tomb.
Fare, 25 cents; round trip, 40 cents.
Within the confines of the park are a menagerie, contain-
ing animals from huge elephants to squirrels, and birds and
reptiles; two reservoirs with a capacity of 1180 million gallons
of drinking water, the Museum of Art, and an Egyptian obelisk.
This obelisk originally stood in front of the Temple of the
Sun in Heliopolis, near Cairo, Egypt, where it was erected
by Thothmes III, sixteen hundred years before the birth of
Christ. First known as Pharaoh's Needle, later as Cleopatra's
Needle, it was presented to the city by Ismail Pasha, Khedive
of Egypt in 1877, and later brought to New York by William
H. Vanderbilt at a cost of more than $100,000. It was erected
in Central Park in 1881. Many statues adorn the park, among
them St. Gaudens' equestrian statue of Wm. T. Sherman at
the plaza entrance, Alexander Hamilton at the west drive, and
Pilgrim Fathers, near 72d St. and Fifth Ave.
The Mall is Central Park's central and chief promenade
and is esteemed by many the most imposing avenue in
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this country. It is a broad, level space of rather high ground,
a quarter of a mile long, planted with parallel rows of stately
elms. Between the rows of trees broad, straight paths of
asphalt, lined with seats, run to where the prospect is beauti-
fully closed by the carved balustrade of the Terrace, over
which, in the remote distance, rise the tower and flag of the
Belvedere. At the left stretch the undulating lawns of "The
Green," dotted here and there, perhaps, with pasturing sheep,
watched by a son of "Old Shep" — a dog, now dead, whose
fame has gone far and wide. Below the Green, nearer to the
Eighth Ave. entrance, is the ball ground devoted to boys'
amusements. In summer concerts are given at the north end
of the Mall on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
Rustic cabins set upon lofty points of rock, narrow gorges
hung with blossoming vines, splashing waterfalls, a gloomy cave,
thickets, flowers, birds, woodland sights and sounds — these
are the features of The Ramble. A sign directs the rambler
to the Carrousel — a place for children's games, with swings,
merry-go-rounds, and other contrivances. Another sign directs
him to the Dairy near by, where milk, bread and butter, cheese,
and the like may be bought for a luncheon. The Belvedere is
not far away, along shady paths and over bare rocks, and
should not be forgotten. The view from its tower is worth far
more than the small exertion of climbing to the outlook. The
reservoirs seen at the foot of the tower and northward are
those which first receive the Croton water, whence it is distrib-
uted to the city. From the Belvedere a path bordered by
thorn trees, which completely overarch it, leads eastward to
The Mall, Central Park
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the main thoroughfare, whence it is only a short distance to
the Art Museum and Obelisk at 82d St. & Fifth Ave.
Riverside Park. Riverside Park, or Drive, lies along the
high banks of the Hudson, between 7ist & Dyckman Sts.,
and is reached by the Subway, Broadway street cars, Sixth
and Ninth A ves., elevated railroad (half a mile walk), and, at
its upper end, by trolley along i2$th St. to Fort Lee Ferry or
subway to Dyckman St. Its position overlooking the broad
river gives it an added importance and an individual char-
acter which are not paralleled in any of the famous avenues of
the world.
Bordering the eastern line of the driveway south of ygth
St., elegant homes appear, beginning with the palace of Charles
M. Schwab. After passing the big private school for girls
between 85th & 86th Sts., one comes to a handsome row of
light-colored residences. The late General E. L. Viele lived
on the corner of 88th St.
Soldiers and Sailors Monument. One of the notable
monuments of Greater New York is the Soldiers and Sailors
Memorial at 8Qth St. and Riverside Drive. It cost $250,000.
Near goth St., a very striking house with a red tile roof and
many balconies was that of John H. Matthews, who made a
FIFTH
CENTRAL
PARK
WEST
1 Columbus
2 Maine Memorial
3 Commerce
4 Thorwalsden
5 Gen. Wm. T. Sherman
6 Tom Moore
7 Arsenal
Central Park
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8 Menagerie
9 Dairy
10 Columbus
1 1 Shakespeare
12 Walter Scott
13 Robert Burns
14 Fitz Green Halleck
17
18
19
20
21
The Hunte
Beethoven
Casino
Moose
Pilgrim Fa
Tigress
The Eagle
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solid fortune out of effervescent soda; and the 8oth St. corner
is occupied by the picturesque ivy-grown home of Mrs. Mary
S. Parsons. In front of this a flight of stone steps descends to
the river. The house was built by Cyrus Clark, "Father of
the West Side," on the site of the pillared country seat of
Brockholst Livingston.
Outside the drive stands a bronze copy of Houdin's statue of
Washington, given to the city by the school children. Beyond
this comes the bridged roadway at g6th St., the high ground
on the farther side being crowned by the old-fashioned white
mansion of the Furness estate, marked by a pillared portico
and spacious wings. The large red-brick and stone house
and the grounds of Peter Doelger cover half the block at looth
St. At io2d St. another spacious house, set back from and
above the street, and surrounded by a garden, is noticeable
from the fact that it is built of iron. This is the home of Mrs.
Bertha Foster, widow of the man whose patent glove hooks
brought him a fortune. Maggie Mitchell, the actress, dwells
in her own houss a block east, at the corner of West End Ave. ;
and Richard Mansfield lived at No. 312, just beyond io4th
St. At io8th St. the huge square-towered house of S. G. Bayne,
and the ivy-grown residence of his neighbor, H. S. F. Davis,
AVENUE
Central Park
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22 The Falconer
23 Daniel Webster
24 Mazzini
25 Seventh Regiment
26 Belvedere
27 Metropolitan Museum of Art
28 Obelisk
29 Alexander Hamilton
30 Bolivar
3 1 Conservatory
32 Museum of Natural History
33 Boat House
34 Bathesda Fountain
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are conspicuous. This is the highest and most sightly part
of the drive. Park carriages ply between 72d St. and Grant's
Tomb. Fare, 25 cents.
Claremont Restaurant is one of the historic landmarks of
the city. It stands on a bluff just above Grant's Tomb, com-
manding an unsurpassed view of the Hudson and the Palisades.
Over the adjacent hills, with Washington in command, was
fought the ever-memorable battle of Harlem. The restaurant
was modeled after Lord Clive's historic Claremont in Surrey,
England, now owned by King George. From the restaurant
the British minister viewed the trials of the first steamboat,
Fulton's "Clermont," in 1807. Claremont was the residence
of Joseph Bonaparte, whom Napoleon made King of Spain,
and since its acquisition by the city its lessee (R. A. Gushee)
has entertained untold numbers of guests, from President
McKinley to governors and other officials of state and city.
Grant's Tomb. Commanding a magnificent prospect, and
surrounded by quiet lawns, which keep at a reverential
distance the
"equipage and bravery of fashion,"
is the tomb of General U. S. Grant. General Grant died on
July 23, 1885. His own preference, as well as that of his
family, led to his interment in New York, ani the site of
the present monument was set apart by the city both
because of its natural beauty and because here a memorial
building would be visible from many distant points in the
city, harbor, and river. A temporary vault-like tomb was
immediately constructed and the body was placed therein
August 8, 1885, after the
"most solemn and imposing funeral demonstration ever made in New
York, viewed by more than a million people."
Here the body of the great general remained until removed
to its present resting place in 1897. The following descrip-
tion of this magnificent mausoleum is quoted by permission
from General Horace Porter's account in The Century Maga-
zine for April, 1897:
"Th3 lowsr portion, of the tomb is a square structure of the Grecian -
Doric order, measuring 90 ft. on a side."
"The entrance is on the south side, and is protected by a portico
formed of double lines of columns, and approached by steps 70 ft. wide.
The square portion is finished with a cornice and a parapet, at a height
from grade 72 ft., and above this is a circular cupola 70 ft. in diameter,
of the Ionic, which is surrounded with a pyramidal top, terminating at
a height of 150 ft. above grade, or 280 ft. above mean high water of
the Hudson River. The interior is cruciform in plan, 76 ft. at the greatest
dimension; the four corners being piers of masonry connected at. the
top by coffered arches, the top of which are 50 ft. from the floor level.
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Grant's Tomb
Riverside Drive and 123d Street
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On these arches rests
an open circular galleiy
of 40 ft. inner diame-
ter, culminating in a
paneled dome 105 ft.
above the level of the
floor. The surfaces
between the planes of
the faces of the arches
and the circular dome
form pendentives
which are decorated in
high-relief sculpture,
the work of J. Massey
Rhind, and emblematic
of the birth, military
and civic life and death
of General Grant. . .
The approach to the
crypt is by stairways
which give access to a
passage encircling the
space dedicated to the
sarcophagi, which space is surrounded by square columns supporting
paneled marble ceilings and entablature."
The stone is granite from North Jay, Me. Only large,
flawless blocks were used, and everywhere the best possible
material and workmanship were exacted. Five years passed
between the laying of the corner stone by President Harrison
and the dedication of the building. The total cost of approxi-
mately $600,000 was contributed by about 90,000 donors, none
in a sum larger than $5000, and almost entirely by citizens of
New York. The construction was in the hands of a monu-
ment association, the most influential member of which was
General Horace Porter. Their sole reward was the universal
public interest and magnificent pageantry that united to make
the dedication of this memorial, April 27, 1897, one of the most
notable public occasions in the history of the metropolis and
of the country.
The body of General Grant rests in a sarcophagus hewn
from a single flawless block of red porphyry, closed by a
massive lid of the same lustrous material. A duplicate beside
it contains the body of Mrs. Grant. The stone for the
sarcophagi was quarried at Monteiro, Wis.
On the north side of the tomb there is a gingko tree sent
by Li Hung Chang. A bronze tablet records in Chinese and
in English:
"This tree is planted at the side of the tomb of Gen. U. S. Grant,
ex-President of the United States of America, for the purpose of com-
memorating his greatness, by Li Hung Chang, Guardian of the Prince,
Grand Secretary of State, Earl of the First Order Yang Hu, Envoy Ex-
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traordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary of China, Vice-Presi-
dent of the Board of Censors,
Kwang Hsu, 23d year, 4th moon,
May 1897."
The Grave of an Ami-
able Child. In the space
between Grant's tomb and
Claremont there is a small
inclosure protecting a fu-
neral urn placed over "the
grave of an amiable child,"
which has stood there for
about a century. A mer-
chant who owned the
ground at that time, having
met with financial reverses
which made it necessary to
sell the property, wrote
under date of January 18,
1800:
"There is small enclosure
near your boundary fence within
which lies the remains of a favor-
ite child, covered by a marble
monument. You will confer a
peculiar and interesting favor
upon me by allowing me to
convey the enclosure to you, so
that you will consider it a part of your own estate, keeping it, however,
always enclosed and sacred. There is a white marble funeral urn pre-
pared to place on the monument which will not lessen its beauty."
The inscription reads:
"Erected to the memory of an amiable child, St. Clair Pollock, died
15 July, 1797, in the 5 year of his age. Man that is born of woman is
of few years, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower and
is cut down; he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not."
Morningside Park extends from Central Park at xooth
St. to I23d St. It occupies high, rocky ground, and the
battlemented wall and heavy staircase along its eastern side,
overlooking the Harlem flats, are conspicuous from the trains
of the Sixth Ave. Elevated Railway. At its northern end
are the remains of Fort Laight, one of the line of block-
houses built to defend the northern approaches to the city
in the War of 1812.
Mount Morris Park occupies about 20 acres and inter-
rupts Fifth Ave. between i2Oth and I24th Sts. Its rocky hill
is more than 100 ft, high and is crowned by an observatory.
Van Cortlandt Park. A new park of 1069 acres at the
northern terminus of the Broadway line of the Interboro
Washington Irving
Bryant Park
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Subway, Van Cortlandt is as yet in nearly its original condi-
tion of rocky woodland, lake, and stream. It contains a large
parade ground for the National Guard. There are also
liberal facilities for golf, tennis, pony polo and skating. In
this park is the Van Cortlandt Mansion, built in 1748. Van
Cortlandt Station, on the Putnam Division, New York Central
& Hudson River R. R., stands upon its margin, on the lake and
public golf links.
Bronx Park lies along both sides of the Bronx River
above West Farms. It is reached by the elevated railroad to
Bronx Park Station, by the subway to iSoth St. Station: or
by the New York Central & Hudson River R. R. to Fordham or
Botanical Garden Stations. It is connected with Van Cortlandt
Park by the Mosholu Parkway, and with Pelham Park, 4
miles east, by another parkway along the coast of Long
Island Sound.
The Botanical Gardens, which are resulting from the
efforts of a society in cooperation with the city government,
are in this part of the park. Some 300 acres have been set
apart for this purpose. This tract
contains stretches of beautiful scenery.
The Bronx River runs through the
entire length of the garden, and the
views through Hemlock Forest are
well worth seeing.
The Zoological Garden, under the
care of the New York Zoological
Society, in cooperation with the state
and city, adjoins the Botanical Gardens,
and occupies a grant of 266 acres. The
garden contains a display of animals,
domiciled as nearly as possible in their
native environment, special attention
being given to American animals. No-
where else in the world are wild animals
exhibited with such lavish provision of
space, shade, natural rocks, pastures
and water. Both institutions add to
their high educational value by main-
taining libraries and lecture courses.
The public is admitted free on five days
of each week. Mondays and Thurs-
days an admission charge of 25 cents is Th
made. To those who wish to enjoy a N Ce"tral Parl! .
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and at the same time see the most comfortable wild animals
that can be found anywhere in captivity, this garden will
prove irresistably attractive.
Pelham Bay Park. This is one the largest parks of the
city. It contains 1756 acres of unimproved country, with 7
miles of water front on Long Island Sound. Public golf links
have been made by the city. The park is reached at the
Bartow station of the Harlem branch of the N. Y., N. H. &
H. R. R.
Southern Boulevard starts from the north end of the
Third Ave. Bridge and, turning east, follows the line of the
Westchester shore of Long Island Sound; then, curving around,
returns westward and joins Central Ave. at Jerome Park. It
is wide, well kept, and at its southern end commands some
fine views of the Sound. It has electric cars.
Central Avenue begins at the north end of the Central
Bridge, formerly called McComb's Dam Bridge. It is reached
by Seventh Ave. at i55th St. It is a wide boulevard and the
roadbed is kept in excellent condition. This is the fashionable
drive of the city outside of Central Park, and every afternoon,
especially on Sunday, it is crowded with splendid horses.
St. Nicholas Avenue. This fine road, formerly Harlem
Lane, rims northwest from Central Park alongside the grounds
of the Convent of the Sacred Heart and thence to Fort Wash-
ington, where it joins the Kingsbridge Road. The Kingsbridge
Road may be followed to Kingsbridge across the Harlem,
after which it runs into Broadway and extends to Yonkers.
All these are good motoring roads.
The Speedway. This is a public "speeding course" along
the west bank of the upper Harlem River, provided by the
city as a place where owners of fast horses may test their paces.
Its length is about 3 miles and its total width from 125 to 150
ft., diminished by the sidewalks to 95 ft., the width of the
actual roadway. The building of walks was bitterly opposed
by the horsemen, whose selfishness has been conspicuous in the
whole history of this peculiar feature of the city's public grounds.
The construction of the road is as follows: Overlying a Tel-
ford bed are 4 inches of broken trap rock, graded to give
the road a dip of 2 inches in the side channeling. On this are
4 inches of cinders, rolled and packed to the same grade.
The top dressing is a mixture of sand, loam, and clay, the
latter in the proportion of about 2 to i. The grade is as
nearly level as it was possible to make it. From High Bridge
to a little beyond Washington Bridge there are a few slight
inclines and declines, but beyond Washington Bridge the road
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Jurnel Mansion
160th Street and Edgecombe Ave.
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is a practically straight, level stretch of ? miles. The Speedway
can be reached from the 15 5th St. viaduct and from High
Bridge. When thronged with fine horses, in gallant rigs, it
is one of the sights of the metropolis to one interested in the
trotter and the pacer, America's special products. Horses of
both classes are to be seen here in their highest degrees of
development.
LIBRARIES AND ART GALLERIES
The New York Public Library. The Astor, Lenox, and
Tilden Foundations, a title that perpetuates the names of
the public-spirited citizens to whose gifts of money, books,
manuscripts, and objects of art the people are indebted for
this institution, extends on the west side of Fifth Ave. from
4oth St. to 42d St. Cost, exclusive of ground, $9,000,000. Of
the 50 branch libraries situated in the boroughs of Manhattan,
the Bronx, and Richmond, 32 were erected by Andrew Carnegie
on sites provided by the municipality. These branches are all
circulating libraries and admission to them is free.
In the Fifth Ave. Building there are more than 800,000 vol-
umes, while the pamphlets exceed 300,000. The main stack has
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New York Public Library
Fifth Ave. and 42d Street
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a capacity for 2,500,000 books, which with that of the other
rooms brings the total book capacity of the building to
3,000,000 volumes. There are more than 810,000 books in the
circulation branches.
In the number of rare editions and prints the wealth of
manuscripts, illuminated works on vellum, and the quaint and
costly bindings it contains the beautiful central library is a ver-
itable treasure-house. The paper of the centuries-old volumes
is seemingly as strong and the ink as black as if the books had
come from the hands of pressman and binder but yesterday.
These, many of them literally priceless, are exhibited in glass
cases. Sculptures, paintings, ceramics, all appropriate and
bearing an intimate relation to the library, well repay the
visitor's attention. In this building is also a room devoted
to the blind, many of whom come unaccompanied; 5000 vol-
umes, with one work in Esperanto, and more than 3000 pieces
of music, to say nothing of magazines representing the modern
languages, constitute this library for the blind.
There are not less than 600 examples of early printed vol-
umes, and of these 15 are known as block books, representing
the slow and laborious method of carving the individual fixed
letters which antedated the use of movable type. In some
exceptional instances manuscript and printing are combined.
There is a Gutenberg Bible in fine condition, and 10 specimens
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- 0 .M PtRST FLOOR FLAW
Floor Plans New York Public Library
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NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
(, (|) .nTHIRP FLOOR PLAJ«
Floor Plans, New York Public Library
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from the press of Caxton, the father of printing in England.
Here, too, may be seen the Bag Psalm Book, the first book
produced in the English colonies. The Spaniards are credited
with 40 volumes printed in Mexico and South America prior
to 1600.
The manuscripts are, perhaps, not less interesting. The
student has at hand original sources of information, especially
upon English and Continental politics in the lyth and i8th
centuries. If you would feast your eyes upon the autographs
and photographs of the great and distinguished, a banquet
awaits you. Here in this department, as in all others that are
in any sense historical, the library is rich in Americana.
In many of the branch libraries on certain evenings, except
in summer, illustrated lectures are given on the arts and sciences,
and on history, the subjects ranging all the way from music to
metallurgy. The basements, commodious and well ventilated
apartments, are used for this purpose.
The library is open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily except on
Sundays, when it opens at i p.m. The branch libraries, except
those in the distinctively Hebrew neighborhoods of the East
Side, close on Sundays. The Carnegie branches are open even
on legal holidays, and the hours generally are from 9 a.m. to
9 p.m.
The Circulating Department includes 28 branches for the
free circulation of books, besides a department of traveling
libraries, having altogether on its shelves about half a million
volumes which circulate at the rate of about four million- a
year.
DIRECTORY OF PRINCIPAL ROOMS
FLOOR ROOM FLOOR ROOM
American History. . 3 300 Maps 3 304
Architecture 3 313 Music 3 324
Art 3 313 Newspapers Basement 84
Books for the Blind. I 116 Oriental Literature. 2 -219
Catalogue Room Patents I 121
(public) 3 315 Periodicals (current) I in
Children's Room . .Basement 78 Photographing 3 326
Circulating Library. Basement 80 Picture Galleries 3 316-322
Current Periodicals. I 1 1 1 Prints 3 308
Economics 2 228 Public Documents.. 2 229
Exhibition Room . . I 113 Science 2 225
Genealogy 3 328 Slavonic Literature. 2 216
Jewish Literature .. 2 217 Sociology 2 228
Lecture Room 2 213 Stuart Collection. .. 3 316
Library School .... Basement 75 Technology I 115
Manuscripts 3 303 Telephones Basement 70
The Cooper Union or Institute is at the head of the Bowery,
where Fourth Ave. branches off to the left, and Third Ave. to
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the right. It was erected by the late Peter Cooper in 1857 at
a cost of $630,000 and endowed with $300,000 for the support
of the free reading room and library. The purpose is philan-
thropic and embraces day and evening schools of various
kinds. Besides those which have an academic course, there
are schools of art for men and women, a free school of telegra-
phy and type-writing for women and other special departments.
As the thousands of pupils who attend these classes are almost
entirely people who must work, all of the instruction tends to
the practical. Free lectures are given on Wednesday and
Saturday evenings in winter.
The Library and Reading Room occupies an immense room
on the third floor, the walls of which are lined with shelves of
books, each in a jacket of strong paper. Long tables are supplied
for readers of the books and magazines which are given out
from a desk on deposit of the metal check which every one
must accept on entering the room and must return when
leaving. The library contains about 20,000 volumes, princi-
pally books of a practical and instructive nature. It is noted
as the possessor of a complete set of both the old and the new
series of Patent Office reports, which are consulted yearly by
almost 2000 persons. All volumes have been carefully
indexed, making them invaluable for reference. The library
is open in the evening and then is crowded by a class of readers
who during the day have no time to spend in gathering informa-
tion or in taking intellectual amusement. More interesting to
the stranger, however, will be the sight of the long tables and
racks filled with newspapers and periodicals, which are pored
over by crowds of men and boys, generally poorly dressed, often
dirty, but all orderly, quiet, and eager to read. This is one of
the sights of the city, and the visitor will easily accept the state-
ment that 450 newspapers and periodicals are taken here.
General Mechanics' and Tradesmen's Library, 18 W. i6th
St. This library has nearly 1 00,000 volumes, which were formerly
circulated among the public, but are now used by members only.
The Mercantile Library occupies rooms at Lafayette PI.
& 8th St., and owns more than 200,000 volumes of general
interest, new books being added as fast as issued. The
fee is $5 annually, or $3 for six months. The public is admitted
to only the outer office, which contains nothing to interest the
sightseer.
Art Galleries. The principal gathering place of art in the
metropolis is The American Fine Arts Society, W. 57th St., be-
tween Seventh Ave. & Broadway. In its building are located
the National Society of Mural Painters, The New York Chapter
of the American Institute of Architects, The Society of
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American Artists, The
National Sculpture Society,
The American Fine Arts
Society, The Fine Arts
Federation of New York,
The New York Water Color
Club, The New York Aca-
demy of Design, The Socie-
ty of Beaux Arts Architects,
and the Art Students'
League.
The Academy holds an
exhibition of new paintings
in the early spring of each
year, and several prizes,
ranging from $100 to $300,
are distributed. During the
first two days of the exhibi-
tions, which are known as
"Varnishing Day" and
"Private View or Buyers'
Day," admission can be ob-
tained only by cards of in-
vitation from the secretary,
and these are eagerly sought.
During the succeeding weeks the gallery is open to the public
from 9 a. m. to 10 p. m. upon payment of an admission fee of
25 cents. There is also an exhibition in the fall, when work
less ambitious, but often none the less interesting, is shown to
the public.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan
Museum of Art is on the eastern side of Central Park,
opposite the entrance at 8ist St. It is reached directly
by the Fifth Ave. stages. The Fourth (or Madison) Ave.
cars pass within one block, and the park carriages go to the
door. The Museum is open daily: Saturday 10 a. m. to 10
p. m. ; Sunday i p. m. to 6 p. m.; other days, including
legal holidays, 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. in winter; 10 a. m. to 6 p. m.
in summer. On Mondays and Fridays only, an admission fee
of 25 cents is charged to all but members and students.
Umbrellas and canes must be checked and left at the desk.
A series of hand-books, costing 10 to 20 cents each, may be
bought, covering a number of the separate exhibits. The
catalogue of paintings is especially full and valuable.
Soldier's and Sailor's Monument
Riverside Drive and 89th Street
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Central Park
Fifth Ave. and E. 82d Street
Page 85
Photo copies of all objects belonging to the museum made
by the museum photographer are on sale, as well as photo-
graphs by leading photographers.
Copying and photographing are permitted with only slight
restrictions.
The services of an expert guide may be secured at a charge
of 25 cents per person, with a minimum charge of one dollar
per hour.
This museum stands unique in the world in its Cyprian an-
tiquities; is second to the British Museum in its Babylonian
cylinders; leads all American collections in paintings and
statues, and has acquired an incomparable series of mummy
cases.
The museum collections include the fine arts, painting,
sculpture, and architecture, as well as what are usually called
decorative or industrial arts. Ancient art includes Egyptian,
Babylonian, Assyrian, Phoenician, Cypriote, Etruscan, Greek,
and Roman antiquities. In painting the attempt is made to
illustrate the history of the art in antiquity, and from the
Middle Ages to the present time, with especial attention to the
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work of American artists. The decorative arts include wood-
work, metal-work, ceramics, and textiles. The collections
represent the East and the Near East (China, Japan, Persia,
and Asia Minor), Europe, and America. Special attention is
given to American art.
In Egyptian Art : Stone vases of the earliest periods
(First Egyptian Room); Wall-relief from Tomb of Raemka,
V Dyn., ca. 2600 B. C. (Second Egyptian Room); Red-granite
column from pyramid-temple of Sahure, V Dyn., ca. 2700
B. C. (Third Egyptian Room); Coffin, jewelry, and other
objects from tomb of Senbtes, found by Metropolitan* Museum
Expedition in excavations at Lisht in 1907, XII Dyn., ca.
200 B. C. (Fourth Egyptian Room); Painted reliefs and other
material found by the Metropolitan Museum Expedition at
Lisht in the excavation of the pyramid-temples of Kings
Amenenhat I and Sesostris I, ca. 2000 B. C. (Fifth Egyptian
Room); Temple-reliefs from Abydos of Kings Ramses I and
Seti I, i4th century B. C. (Sixth Egyptian Room); Painted
capital (first-half of 4th century B.C.) from the excavation of the
Temple of Hibis, Kharga Oasis, by the Metropolitan Museum
Expedition 1909-10 (Eighth Egyptian Room); Painted portrait
panels and mummy with a panel in position, of the Roman
period in Egypt (Ninth Egyptian Room); Sculptured friezes,
moldings, and capitals from Monastery of St. Jeremias, Sakkara,
illustrating the Early Christian art of Egypt (Ninth Egyptian
Room) .
In Classical Art : Etruscan bronze chariot, 5th century
B.C., and the ancient bronzes (Floor i : D. 12) ; Roman bronze
statue of Emperor Trebonianus Gallus (i: D i); Wall-paint-
ings from Boscoreale (i: D 10); Cesnola Collection of antiq-
uities from Cyprus (i : B 41-42); Original Greek and Roman
marbles (i: D n); Greek vases (i: B 40 A, 406); Greek,
Roman, and Etruscan terracottas (i: D 8); Gold ornaments,
gems (n: C 32).
In Oriental Art : Collection of Chinese Porcelains lent by
Mr. J. P. Morgan (n: D 6); Heber R. Bishop Collection of
Jades, etc. (n: D 4); Japanese Arms and Armor (n: D 8);
E. C. Moore Collection of Original Art (n : E 12); Joseph Lee
Williams Memorial Collection of Rugs (n : E 13, 14). (Loan.)
In Western Art : Sculpture (including the Hoentschel Col-
lection) lent by Mr. J. P. Morgan (i: F 1-4); Renaissance
Sculpture (i: F 5-7); the Marquand Gallery, containing
selected paintings of importance (n: A n); Dino and Ellis
Collections of Arms and Armor (n : D i, 3) ; Mrs. S. P. Avery
Collection of Spoons (n: C 32); Moses Lazarus Collection of
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The Claremont
Riverside Drive and 126th Street
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Fans(ii:E 8); Col-
lection of Laces (i i .
E 8, 9); European
Textile Fabrics (i i :
E 10 ) ; European
ceramics, including
the Le Breton Col-
lection of French
Faience (i and n:
F); Crosby-Brown
Collection of Musi-
cal Instruments
(u: C 35-30);
Woodwork and
Furniture, including
the Hoentschel
Collection of i8th
century French dec-
orative arts (i and
1 1 : F) ; Collection of Ormolu (i i : E 18) ; Collection of Germanic
and Merovingian antiquities (i: F 1-2).
EDUCATIONAL
The College of the City of New York, open free to all young
men residing in this city, and prepared at the city schools,
occupies a series of large, turreted buildings at i4oth St. and
Amsterdam Ave., which contain a cabinet of natural history,
a library of 25,000 volumes and much laboratory apparatus.
The Normal College, for young women, is a free institu-
tion maintained by the city, corresponding with the last men-
tioned college and intended especially for training girls to
serve as teachers. It has an immense monastic-looking build-
ing in 6gth St. between Fourth and Lexington Aves., which cost
$500,000.
St. Francis Xavier's, the leading Roman Catholic college,
is in W. 1 6th St. near Sixth Ave. Its building is one of the
architectural ornaments of the city. It is a day college in
charge of the Jesuit Fathers and numbers about 450 students.
It has a reference library of 20,000 volumes, and a small cir-
culating library.
St. John's College, at Fordham on the Harlem R. R., is an
able institution in charge of the same pedagogical order as
St. Francis Xavier's.
Manhattan College is a third strong Roman Catholic
school, situated in Manhattanville.
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American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West and 77th Street
Page 91
Academy of the Sacred Heart, one of the oldest and best
known Catholic schools for girls, is in Manhattanville.
Mt. St. Vincent Convent School is at Riverdale, on the
Hudson River.
University of the City of New York. This institution is
stronger than its comparatively narrow reputation would lead
an outsider to suppose.
The various undergraduate schools and departments of
arts and sciences which form the nucleus of the institu-
tion are quartered on the east bank of the Harlem River, near
Kings Bridge. These include a Hall of Fame, 500 ft. long,
built about the Library, which contains 150 panels in which
ultimately will be fixed bronze tablets commemorating famous
Americans. The library was the gift of Mrs. F. J. Shepard
(formerly Miss Helen Miller Gould).
The Union Theological Seminary, now in academic relation
to the University, occupies a building at Broadway and
1 20th St. This widely known school is the principal place
of training for ministers of the Presbyterian Church, but its
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students may come from any evangelical denomination so
long as they can show a certificate of good church standing.
The Faculty of Medicine. Foot of E. 26th St. and contig-
uous to Bellevue Hospital. These buildings, whose two
amphitheaters together will seat 1000 pupils, are modern,
and admirably adapted to their purposes. Attached is the
Loomis Laboratory, the cost of which ($100,000) was de-
frayed by a friend on condition that his name be kept secret,
and the laboratory be directed by Dr. Alfred Loomis and
named after him. Much of the instruction is given in the
wards and lecture rooms of Bellevue, and the work is con-
sequently of a very practical character.
The American Museum of Natural History. Central Park
West and 77th St. Admittance free except on Monday
and Tuesday, when a fee of 25 cents is required. Open on
Sunday afternoons and on Tuesday and Saturday evenings.
Descriptive pamphlet? are for sale at the door.
The 'museum occupies a building along the whole front of
the north side of 77th St. with a T piece running northward.
It contains articles and models illustrating the life of the
Eskimos of North America, the Shoshone Indians, the Gros
Ventres ; basketry and archaeological remains of New York ; a fine
collection of totem poles of the Ilaida Indians; masks and
dishes from British Columbia; carvings from Vancouver Island,
and basketry and utensils of the Chilcoten and Yakima Indians ;
the Jesup collection of woods; the Hyde Collection from the
ancient pueblos, cliff-houses and burial-caves of the Southwest;
groups of animals, masterpieces of the taxidermist's art, con-
spicuous among which are the cases of moose, bison, and
musk-ox, undoubtedly the finest in the world. Of particulrr
excellence, too, are the bird-rock group and the water-ousel
group.
Here also are minerals, including the Tiffany exhibit at
the Paris exhibition in 1889, purchased and presented by
J. Pierpont Morgan; collections of meteorites and geological
specimens, including the collection of the late Prof. J. Hall,
priceless to paleontologists; specimens of vertebrate paleon-
tology; Cretaceous fish ; an ichthyosaurus with young, showing
it to have been viviparous, and hundreds of other priceless
examples of bygone ages. The collection of reproductions and
casts of the ancient monoliths and bas-reliefs of Central America,
presented by the Duke of Loubat, is shown here, as well as rare
specimens illustrating the pre-Columbian life of that portion
of the continent. One floor is given up to anthropology, con-
chology, paleontology, entomology, and mammalogy, and on
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Hall of Records
Chamber and Center Streets
Page 105
this floor is the library containing 55,000 volumes on natural
history subjects, accessible to members and students, and the
laboratory for photography. In addition to its use as a museum
the building is a center of scientific life. The lecture hall has a
seating accommodation of 1500 and is a separate building
at the extreme north of the museum. The lectures on Tues-
days and Saturdays are free.
Columbia University. Columbia University is the foremost
institution of higher learning in New York, and one of the
loremost in the United States. The grounds at Morningside
Heights cover nearly 18 acres between Broadway and
Amsterdam A ve., from 11 6th St. to 120th St., formerly occupied
by the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum, and cost $2,000,000. The
Library was erected at the cost of about $1,000,000 by Seth
Low, President of the University 1890-1902, as a memorial
to his father, the late A. A. Low of this city. Four laboratory
buildings are completed. Schermerhorn Hall, next east of Uni-
versity Hall, is devoted to biological sciences and contains,
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besides laboratories and lecture rooms, an interesting Museum
of Natural History, open to the public. Beside it are
the Physics Bldg., Earl, South and Fayerweather Halls, Have-
meyer Hall, devoted to chemistry, and the Engineering Bldg.,
containing the machinery needed in practical instruction. The
outer (Broadway) front of the latter building bears a spirited
bronze memorial tablet, modeled by James E. Kelly, to
Knowlton and the battle of Harlem Heights, a battle fought
in this vicinity September 16, 1776.
The five "colleges" or departments of the University now
established are: i. Arts. 2. Science. 3. Law. 4. Political
Science. 5. Medicine. The College of Arts embraces the
classical and literary curriculum usual in a collegiate course
of four years. The Department of Science embraces all that
used to constitute the almost separate "School of Mines,"
famous in the history of Columbia, and so much of the
other courses as touch its province. A
four years' course will give degrees of
Mining Engineer, Civil Engineer,
Metallurgical Engineer, and Bachelor
of Philosophy. The Department of
Medicine is better known as "The
College of Physicians and Surgeons."
It occupies extensive buildings on 6oth
St. between Ninth and Tenth Aves.,
close to the Roosevelt Hospital, in
which (and in other hospitals) much
of the instruction is given. The
Uni versity now has some I ooo faculty
members and nearly 1 8,000 students.
Barnard Annex is the women's
department at Columbia, with cour-
ses-parallel to those of the under-
graduates in the School of Arts. A
fine building has been prepared for the
school at Broadway and 120th St.
Its graduates receive diplomas equiv-
alent to University degrees.
The Teachers' College andHorace
Mann School is a large institution on
the north side of 120th St., for in-
struction with special reference to
teaching. It is closely affiliated with
Columbia University.
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Central Park West (;;th St.) Founded in 1804. Monthly
meetings are held during the cool months. Besides a library
of 70,000 volumes, the building contains the interesting Nine-
veh marbles presented by James Lenox and the Abbott col-
lection of Egyptian antiquities, consisting of some 1200
objects. The gallery of art is on the 4th floor, and except-
ing the Metropolitan Museum of Art comprises, perhaps, the
largest permanent collection in America of valuable sculp-
tures, ancient and modern paintings by renowned masters,
and authentic portraits of persons distinguished in history.
The collections include 800 pictures and 59 pieces of
sculpture, and are increasing rapidly.
COLLEGES, ACADEMIES AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS
Academy of Sacred Heart — 533 Madison Ave. (Girls).
Art Students League of N. ¥.—215 W. s;th St.
Barnard College (Women) — Broadway and ngth St. Literary,
Science, and general 2 years' course.
Barnard School — 721 St. Nicholas Ave. (Boys).
Barnard School — 421 Convent Ave. (Girls).
Barnard School for Household Arts— 226 W. 7gth St. (Girls).
Baron de Hirsch Trade School— 222 E. 64th St. (Co-ed).
Berkeley — 270 W. 72d St. (Boys).
Berlitz School of Languages — 1122 Broadway, 343 Lenox Ave.
Bible Teachers Training School — 541 Lexington Ave. (Co-ed).
Blake School— 2 W. 45th St. (Boys).
Carpenter School — 310 West End Ave. (Boys).
Clason Point Military Academy — Clason Point (Boys).
Classical School for Girls — 2042 Fifth Ave.
College City of New York— St. Nicholas Ave. & 139^1 St.
(Boys).
College of Dental and Oral Surgery— 216 W. 42d St. (Co-ed).
College of Mt. St. Vincent— 26ist St. (Girls).
College of Pharmacy City of N. ¥.—115 W. 68th St. (Co-ed).
College of Physicians and Surgeons — 437 W. $gth St. (Males).
College of St. Francis Xavier— 30 W. i6th St. (Boys).
Collegiate School— 241 W. 77th St. (Boys).
Columbia Grammar School — 5 W. Q3d St. (Boys).
Columbia Religious and Industrial School for Jewish Girls — 3 1 6
E. Fifth Ave.
Columbia University — n6th St. and Morningside Heights
(Co-ed).
Cooper Union — 8th St. and Fourth Ave. (Co-ed).
Cornell University Medical College — 477 First Ave. (Co-ed).
Cutler School— 20 E. soth St. (Boys).
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Hall of Fame
New York University
' Sedgewick Ave. and East 181st Street, Bronx
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Delancey School— 301 W. g8th St. (Girls).
De La Salle Institute— 108 W. sgth St. (Boys).
Downtown Talmud Torah — 394 E. Houston St. (Co-ed).
Dr. Scudder's Col. School— 59 W. 96th St. (Girls).
Dwight School— 15 W. 43d St. (Boys).
Eclectic Medical College— 239 E. i4th St. (Co-ed).
Ethical Culture School— Central Park West and 63d St. (Co-ed).
Finch School— 61 E. yyth St. (Girls).
Fordham University — i9oth St. & Third Ave. (Boys). Courses
leading to degrees of B. A. and B. S. ; also Law and Medical.
Friends Seminary— 226 E. i6th St. (Co-ed).
Gaffey's Shorthand School — 123 W. 12 5th St.
General P. E. Theological Seminary— Chelsea Sq. (Boys).
Groff School— 228 W. 72d St. (Boys).
Hamilton Institute for Girls — 3 W. 8ist St.
Hamilton Institute — 599 West End Ave. (Boys).
Hawthorne School — 250 W. 72d St. (Girls).
Hebrew Technical School— Second Ave. & isth St. (Girls).
Hebrew Technical Institute — 36 Stuyvesant St. (Boys).
Holy Cross Academy — 343 W. 42d St. (Girls).
Horace Mann Schools — 525 W. i2oth St. (Co-ed).
Irving School — 35 W. 84th St. (Boys).
Jewish Theological Seminary of America — 531 W. i23d St.
Loyola School— 65 E. 83d St. (Boys).
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Manhattan College — i3ist St. & Broadway (Boys) . Christian
Bros.
Miss Spence's School— 30 W. 55th St. (Girls).
Mrs. Scoville's School — 2042 Fifth Ave. (Girls).
National Academy of Design — Amsterdam Ave. & logth St.
N. Y. Academy of Sciences — American Museum of Natural
History— yyth St. & Central Park West.
N. Y. College of Dentistry— 205-207 E. 23d St. (Boys).
N. Y. College of Music— 128 E. 58th St.
N. Y. Collegiate Institute — 241 Lenox Ave. (Girls).
N. Y. Electrical Trade School— 39 W. ijth St. (Boys).
N. Y. Froebel Normal Institute— 59 W. 96th St. (Girls).
N. Y. German Conservatory of Music — 306 Madison Ave.
N. Y. Homeopathy Medical College— 63d St. & Ave. A (Boys).
N. Y. Institute for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb —
W. 1 63d St. & Ft. Washington Ave.
N. Y. Law School— 174 Fulton St. (Boys).
N. Y. Medical College and Hospital for Women — 1 7 W. loist St.
N. Y. Nautical College— 318 W. 57th St.
N. Y. Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital — 345 W. 5oth St.
N. Y. Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital — 303 E. 2oth
St. (Co-ed).
N. Y. School of Applied Design for Women — 160 Lexington Ave.
N. Y. School of Fine and Applied Arts — 2237 Broadway.
N. Y. School of Journalism — Columbia University (Co-ed).
N. Y. School of Philanthropy— 105 E. 22d St.
N. Y. Trade School— First Ave. & 67th St. (Boys).
New York University —
College of Arts and Pure Sciences — University Heights.
School of Applied Science — Washington Sq.
Graduate School — Washington Sq.
Pedagogy — Washington Sq.
Commerce Accounts and Finance — Washington Sq.
Collegiate Division — Washington Sq.
Summer School — Washington Sq.
Women's Law Class — Washington Sq.
Law — 32 Waverly PI.
Medicine— First Ave. & 26th St.
Veterinary School — 114 W. 54th St.
Normal College— Park Ave. & 68th St. (Girls).
Packard Commercial School — Lexington Ave. & 35th St.
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary — 156 Henry St.
(Boys).
Rabbi Jacob Joseph School — 197 Henry St. (Boys).
Riverdale Country School— W. 253d St. (Boys).
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Riverside School— 869 West End Ave. (Co-ed).
Sachs Collegiate Institute— 38 W. 5gth St. (Boys).
Scudder School— 59^ W. g6th St. (Girls).
Semple School — 241 Central Park West (Girls).
St. Agatha School— 557 West End Ave. (Girls).
St. Ann's Academy — 153 E. 76th St. (Boys).
St. John's Baptist School— 231 E. i7th St. (Girls).
Syms School — 49 E. 6ist St. (Boys).
Teacher- College— 525 W. i2oth St.
Teachers Inst. of the Jewish Theological Seminary — 134 E.
i nth St. (Co-ed).
Trinity School— 147 W. 9ist St. (Boys).
Union Theological Seminary — Broadway & i2oth St. (Co-ed).
University and Bellevue Medical College-First Ave. & 26th St. (Boys).
Uptown Talmud Torah— 132 E. inth St. (Co-ed).
Veltin School for Girls— 160-162 W. 74th St.
Xavier High School— 39 W. isth St.
Y. M. C. A.— 318 W. 57th St.
Y. M. H. A.— Lexington Ave. & 92d St.
Zellman Conservatory of Music — 349 Lenox Ave.
CLUBS AND SOCIETIES
Advertising Men's League, 47 E. 25th St.
A'dine, 200 Fifth Ave. — Business men.
Arion, Park Ave. and 59th St.
Grecian Shelter, Prospect Park, Brooklyn
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Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Amsterdam Ave. and tilth Street
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Army and Navy, 107 W. 436 St. — Military men.
Authors', Carnegie Hall — Literary men.
Automobile, 54th St. W. of Broadway.
Bar Association, 42 W. 44th St.
Barnard, Seventh Ave. and 56th St.
Calumet, 267 Fifth Ave. — An offshoot from the Union Club.
Catholic, 120 W. Central Park South. — Roman Catholic.
Century, 7 W. 43d St.
Church, 53 E. 56th St. — Episcopalian.
City, 53 W. 44th St. — Improvement of Municipal Government.
Colony, Madison Ave. and 3oth St.
Columbia University, 18 Gramercy Park.
Cornell University, 65 Park Ave.
Deutscher Verein (German Club), 112 Central Park South.
Democratic, 617 Fifth Ave. — Tammany Politicians.
Down-Town Association, 60 Pine St. — Business men.
Down-Town Merchants Club, 279 Grand St.
Down-Town Tammany Club, 59 Madison St.
Elks, no W. 23dSt.
Engineers, 32 W. 4oth St. — Civil engineers, architects, etc.
Freundschaft, 72d St. and Park Ave.
Friars, 107 W. 45th St.
German, 120 Central Park South.
Grolier, 29 E. 32d St.
Greek Letter Clubs — College fraternities : Alpha Delta Phi, 614
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W. iiath St.; Chi Phi, 2 Wall St.; Delta Kappa Epsilon,
608 W. iiath St.; Delta Psi (St. Anthony), 29 E. 28th St.;
Psi Upsilon, 627 W- usth St.; Phi Gamma Delta, 604 W.
1 1 4th St.; Zeta Psi, 22 Andrews Ave.
Harmonie, 10 E. 6oth St. — The leading Hebrew social club.
Harvard, 2 7 W. 44th St. — Alumni of Harvard University.
Knickerbocker, Fifth Ave. and 626. St., S. E. corner.
Lambs' , 1 28 W. 44th St.-Actors and men interested in the stage.
Lawyers, 115 Broadway — A luncheon club for lawyers and
business men.
Lotos, no W. 57th St. — Mainly writers, actors, artists and
professional men.
Machinery Club, 50 Church St.
Manhattan, Madison Ave. and 26th St. — Political and social
club representing the Democratic party.
Masonic, 46 W. 24th St.
Merchants, 106 Leonard St. — Social and commercial.
Metropolitan, Fifth Ave. and 6oth St. — Commonly known as the
Millionaires' Club.
National Arts, 14 Gramercy Park.
New York Athletic, 58 W. 59th St. and New Rochelle.
New York, 20 W. 4oth St. — An exclusive social club.
New York Yacht, 3 7 W. 44th St. — Leading American yacnt club ;
custodian for the" American Cup" for international races.
Ohio Society, Rooms, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel — Natives or
former residents of Ohio and their sons.
Players, 16 Gramercy Park — An exclusive club of actors of
highest rank, managers, and professional men. Its house
was the gift of the late Edwin Booth, and its library is a
priceless collection of dramatic lore, including the playbills
gathered by Augustin Daly, the libraries of Edwin Booth,
Lawrence Barrett, and other interesting material.
Princeton, 121 E. 2ist St.
Progress, Central Park W. and 88th St.— A social club of
Hebrews.
Racquet and Tennis, 27 W. 43d St. — Men interested in ath-
letic sports.
Railroad, 30 Church St.
Reform, 9 S. William St. — A social club of men interested in low
tariff measures.
Republican, 54 W. 4oth St. — A large social club active in
Republican politics.
Riding, 7 E. $8th St. — The most fashionable riding and
driving club.
St. Nicholas, 7 W. 44th St. — Composed exclusively of men whose
ancestors resided in New York prior to 1785.
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Salmagundi, 14 W. i2th St. — Artists exclusively.
Transportation, Madison Ave. and 426. St.
Twelfth Night, 23 W. 44th St. — Ladies of the dramatic pro-
fession.
Union, Fifth Ave. and 5ist St. — The first American club formed
upon English models. The club has consisted from the very
first of the " social magnates of New York."
University, Fifth Ave. and 54th St.
University of Pennsylvania, 165 Broadway.
Union League, Fifth Ave. and 39th St. — One of the foremost
clubs; distinctively a Republican organization.
West Side Tennis.
Women's University, 99 Madison Ave.
Yale, 30 W. 44th St.
CITY GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS
City Hall. The city government has its central point of
administration in the City Hall, where are the offices of the Mayor,
President of the Borough of Manhattan, City Clerk, and other
officials, and the meeting-rooms cf the Council and Board of
Aldermen. In the Governor's room may be seen the chair used
by Washington at* his inauguration as President, and the desk
City Hall, City Hall Park
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on which he wrote his first mes-
sage to Congress. The Mayor's
Office, on the ground floor, con-
tains one of the most valuable of
the city's works of art — the large
full-length portrait of Lafayette
painted by Professor S. F. B.
Morse (afterwards inventor of
the telegraph) during Lafayette's
famous visit to the United States
in 1825. Portraits of Mayors
Paulding and Allen, by Morse,
are also in this room, together
with those of Fernando Wood,
Philip Home, Kingsland, and
other mayors, by Vanderlyn,
Elliott, Inman, and other pain*
ers. The picture of Washington
and his horse, in the City Clerk's
room, is unsigned, but is be-
lieved to be a poor specimen of
Major John Trumbull's work.
The fine circular stairway in the
rotunda is overlooked by the
painted plaster original of David
d' Anger's statue of Thomas Jefferson, presented in 1834 by
Commodore Uriah P. Levy, U. S. N. The bronze replica of
this statue is in the National Capitol. Immediately opposite
the head of the stairway is the entrance to the Governor's
Room, a stately apartment stretching along the front of the
building, the scene of the most noted social incidents in the
early history of the municipality. The old-fashioned furniture,
including relics from a dignified past, have preserved in this
room the spirit of Colonial days. The walls are hung with
full-length portraits of governors of the state and of national
heroes, many of which are fine examples of American art.
The equestrian portrait of Washington here is by John Trumbull,
after a small original (now in Baltimore), and was made in accor-
dance with a resolution passed by the Common Council in 1790,
"that the President of the United States be requested to permit Mr.
Trumbull to take his portrait to be placed in the City Hall, as a monument
of the respect which the inhabitants of the city bear towards him."
Trumbull assures us in his Autobiography that
"every part of the detail of the dress, horse, furniture, etc., as well as the
scenery, was accurately copied from the real objects."
The full-length portrait of Governor George Clinton, as he
Nathan Hale
City Hall Park
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Municipal Building
Park Row and Center Street
Facing City Hall
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appeared at
Fort Mont-
gomery, is also
by Trumbull.
It was painted
in 1791, and
has been pro-
nounced by
critics the best
example ex-
tant of Trum-
bull's method.
The same
painter did the
portrait of Al-
exander Ham-
ilton (1804),
the splendid
picture o:
G o vernor
Morgan Lewis
in his uniform
as a major-
general in the
War of 1812,
probably that
of John Jay,
and some
others. Be-
sides Trum-
bull, among
the old paint-
ers represent-
ed in this
room, or else-
where in the
city's art col-
lection (scat-
tered through
the municipal
offices), are
John Vander-
lyn, Thomas
Sully, Henry
Peters Gray,
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George Catlin (the Indian painter), William Page, C. W.
Jarvis, Thomas Hicks, and Henry Inman. Of more
recent artists the best known is Daniel Huntington, a good
example of whose work is the portrait of Governor Morgan.
An interesting canvas here, old and carefully painted, but of
unknown history, is the head of Peter Stuyvesant. Two other
ancient and noted pictures belonging to the city are hung in
the office of the Water Registrar, in the Tract Society's Bldg.
These are a portrait of Hendrik Hudson, of unrecorded history,
and one claimed to be that of Christopher Columbus, a copy of
a picture painted in 1459, when Columbus was 23 years of age.
Historic objects in the Governor's Room include a bust of
DeWitt Clinton, battle flags of the Civil War, and furniture
brought from the original State House in Wall St.
The Criminal Courts are on Center St., connected with
The Tombs by an elevated and inclosed passageway spanning
Franklin St., usually spoken of as the " Bridge of Sighs." Their
interest to the visitor is confined to the mural paintings by
Edward Simmons in the room of the Supreme Court, in the
northeast corner on the first floor. The central painting repre-
sents "America Offering Justice to the World." It is said that
the countenances are those of the artist's wife and children.
On the right are the "Three Fates"— Clotho (youth), on the
right, spins the thread of life from her distaff; Lachesis (middle
age) twists and measures it in her hands; and aged Atropos
cuts it off at death's appointed time. The panel on the left is
devoted to three male figures, "Brotherhood Uniting Science
to Freedom." The murals were made in 1895 under the direc-
tion of the Municipal Art Commission, which now controls all
matters relating to the embellishment of public buildings and
the acceptance by the city of statues.
The Tombs. "The Tombs" is a nickname for the city
prison, suggested long ago by the gloomy architecture which
made it for many years one of the landmarks of the city. In
1898 it was rebuilt in a greatly enlarged form, and nothing now
remains of the picturesque exterior which was perhaps the best
example of Egyptian style in the country. The Tombs occupies
the entire block bounded by Center St. on the east, Elm St. on
the west, Leonard St. on the south, and Franklin St. on the
north, but its really grand proportions are dwarfed by its
situation in a hollow. The prison now covers the site of the
pre-Revolutionary gibbet, planted on a small island, and there-
fore stands upon ground long dedicated to the hangman's use.
Internally the prison is rather a series of buildings than a single
structure. The cells rise in tiers one above the other, with a
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separate corridor for each row. Besides those awaiting trial in
the Special Sessions and Magistrates' Courts, persons accused
or convicted of the more heinous crimes are kept in The Tombs
until they have been tried before the higher courts, or until
they depart for the State Prison.
Hall of Records. Corner of Chambers and Center Sts. A
$9,000,000 building for the care of the deeds of all the real
estate on Manhattan Island. Its vaults are absolutely fireproof.
The 32 monoliths each cost $20,000. The statues about the
exterior, by Bush, Brown, MacMonnies, and Philip Martiny,
are of men prominent in the history of New York City, and
figures representing "Navigation," "History," "Commerce,"
"Industry," "Heritage," "Poetry," "Law," "Preservation,"
and similar subjects. The groups representing the recording of
the purchase of Manhattan in 1626 and the consolidation of
Greater New York, 1898, are by Albert Weinert.
The Appellate Court House. The Court House of the
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the city of New
York is located on the east side of Madison Ave. at 25th St.
This three-story building was completed in 1900 at a cost, in-
cluding furnishings, of approximately $750,000. It is consid-
ered one of the most beautiful buildings in the city. The
balustrade is surmount-
ed by statues of the
great law givers of his-
tory and the Madison
Ave. cornice is sup-
ported by caryatides
representing the four
seasons. The interior is
finished in Siena mar-
ble, the frieze spaces
filled with paintings and
the ceiling modeled in
gold. The furniture is
of dark oak, richly
carved. The stained
glass dome and win-
dows are inscribed with
names of eminent
American jurists.
Municipal Building.
Near the Manhattan
The Tombs end Qf Brooklyn Bridge,
Center and Leonard btreets , . ~. ^ °
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Criminal Courts and Bridge of Sighs
Center and Franklin Streets
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Hall of Records. The cost of the building, exclusive of land,
was about $12,000,000. The purpose was to provide
offices for several city departments, thereby saving an
annual rent of $600,000. In addition to the offices there
are 700,000 sq. ft. of floor space available for rent to
private concerns, which should yield an annual income of
about $ i , 500,000. The building is unique in that all its windows
are outside. The basement contains a spacious station in which
the subway systems of Brooklyn and Manhattan converge. The
height, including the figure surmounting the structure, is 584 ft.
above grade; the foundation, about 135 ft. below grade.
Extreme dimensions of site are 450 by 300 ft. Each of the bas-
reliefs impaneled between the windows on the second floor
represents some department of municipal government, such as
"Elections," " Water Supply," "Licenses," "Education,"
"Public Charity." In the smaller arches of the colonnade are
bas-reliefs representing " Civic Duty " and " Civic Pride.'' The
two figures over the main arch represent "Executive Guidance
and Power." In the medallions above the smaller arches the
subjects represented are "Progress" and "Prudence." The
female figure crowning the tower and representing " Civic Fame"
is 28 ft. high.
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
Chamber of Commerce. 65 Liberty St. Admission only
by card of member. The statues adorning the front are of
Alexander Hamilton, DeWitt Clinton, and John Jay. The
statuary over the entrance is symbolical of commerce. Housed
here are many portraits of New York merchants, a painting
of Washington by Stuart, and curious relics of bygone days.
The Chamber of Commerce was organized in Fraunces' Tavern
in 1768 and incorporated in 1770, and is the oldest commercial
organization in the United States.
The Custom House occupies an entire block at the foot of
Broadway, facing Bowling Green, an historic site where Fort
Amsterdam was erected in 1626. Government House was built
in 1790 for President Washington. Here George Clinton and
John Jay lived. The building was used as a custom house from
1733 to 1875. Including the ground, it cost more than
$7,000,000. Its seven floors contain an area of 300,000
sq. ft.
The cartouche high above the entrance, emblematic of
America, is by Carl Ritter. The groups on pedestals on either
side of the main entrance represent America, Europe, Africa,
and Asia, and are the work of Daniel C. French.
The "Commercial Nations" ranged along the cornice, as
viewed from left to right, represent Greece, by F. E. Elwell;
Rome, by F. E. Elwell; Phoenicia, by F. M. Ruckstuhl; Genoa,
by Augustus Lukeman; Venice, by F. M. L. Tonetti; Spain, by
F. M. L. Tonetti; Holland, by Louis St. Gaudens; Portugal,
by Louis St. Gaudens; Denmark, by Johannes Gelert; Ger-
many, by Albert Jaegers ; France, by Charles Graby ; England,
by Charles Graby.
The New York Stock Exchange. The New York Stock
Exchange, housing the oldest organization of brokers, is at 10
Broad St., extending through to New St. Cost of building,
$3,000,000. The front is a splendid example of Greek archi-
tecture; each of the Corinthian columns is 52 ft. high. The
association, which has a membership of noo, was organized in
1792. No one not a member is allowed upon the floor, and
when it is remembered that $95,000 has been paid for that priv-
ilege, the restriction is not to be wondered at. The hours are
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and members are forbidden to make
any transactions except during that time. The dealings are
wholly in stocks, bonds, and other securities which have been
recognized or "listed" by the Exchange. The names of the
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most important of
these are posted
upon iron standards
scattered about the
floor, around which
the selling and buy-
ing of these particu-
lar securities go on.
The Curb Mar-
ket. The Curb
Market transacts
its business in
Broad St., in front
of No. 44, between
the hours of 10
a.m., and 3 p.m.,
except Sundays and
holidays, when no
transactions are
made, and on
Saturdays when the
hours are from 10
a.m., to 12 noon.
Chamber of Commerce It is the market for
Liberty West of Nassau Street SUC'h SCCUritieS aS
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various reasons are
not listed on the Stock Exchange. Among the more prominent
of these is Standard Oil. The brokers have their offices in
adjoining buildings within view of the market.
The Consolidated Petroleum and Stock Exchange. At the
corner of Broad and Beaver Sts. The organization grew out of
a consolidation of various boards dealing in oil, mining, and
general securities, and began operations in 1875. It now does
nearly as much business as the older board, and the scene from
its gallery (the entrance to which is on Beaver St.) is often
more animated.
The New Bank Clearing House. The New Bank Clearing
House Bldg. in Cedar St., a few doors east of Broadway, is of
marble, carved in all the profusion characteristic of the Italian
Renaissance, its window spaces set off by Corinthian pillars,
and surmounted by an entablature bearing carvings of the arms
of the city and other designs. This is in many respects the most
beautiful building in New York. The rooms of the Clearing
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House Association, composed now of 66 banks, are on the upper
floor beneath the skylighted dome. The ground floor is occupied
by the Chase National Bank, whose offices are finished in mar-
bles, gilded stucco, and artistic .metal work. The great steel
safe in the basement is made to hold 210 tons of gold, or about
$105,000,000 in coin.
Produce Exchange. Bowling Green. Organized in 1861.
The Exchange Bldg. is 307 ft. by 150 ft.; tower, 240 ft. high;
trading room, 220 by 144 ft.; cost of building, $3,000,000.
Here is carried on the largest trading in provisions and grain
conducted by any exchange in the world.
Cotton Exchange. Broad near Williams St.; here all
the dealings in cotton in the United States concentrate.
PROMINENT CHURCHES
Note: Directories of places of worship are displayed in
all principal hotels. Therefore these pages make mention
of only the more distinguished.
The Dutch Re-
formed Church is the
oldest Protestant
organization in New
York and in the
Western Hemisphere.
The finest building
occupied by this de-
nomination is the
Third Collegiate, at
Fifth Ave.& 48th St.
Hamilton Ave.
Church, at W. i4sth
St. & Convent Ave.,
stands upon what
was once the home
estate of Alexander
Hamilton.
Trinity Church:
Broadway, facing
Wall St. The land
on which Trinity
Church now stands John Jay
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farm, before the
conquest of Man-
hattan Island by the
English. It then
became "The King's
Farm," and in 1705
was granted to this,
the Colonial Church.
These lands em-
braced the entire
tract lying along the
North River, between
the present Vesey &
Christopher Sts.
Much of it was sub-
sequently given away
to institutions of
various sorts, but
enough remains to
constitute a property
yielding about
$500,000 income an-
nually and worth an
enormous amount at
the market prices of
real estate in that part of the city. This income is spent in
maintaining old Trinity and six chapels, in aiding many
subsidiary missions in various squalid parts of the city;
supporting a long list of charities, and in caring for Trinity
Cemetery, in Manhattanville. The present edifice was com-
pleted in 1846. The bronze doors, which cost $30,000, are a
memorial to j. J. Astor; the altars and reredos were erected at
a cost of $100,000 to the memory of W. B. Astor.
In Trinity Churchyard are buried many well-known
persons, among them Alexander Hamilton, Robert Fulton,
Captain James Lawrence, Albert Gallatin, and General
Phil. Kearney. Of the monuments the most conspicuous
is "The Martyrs," in the northeast corner near the street.
This was erected by the Trinity corporation in memory
of the American patriots who died in British prisons in this
city during the Revolutionary War. Another prominent
monument, at the left of the entrance, is the one to the mem-
ory of Captain Lawrence, of the man-of-war "Chesapeake,"
whose dying cry, "Don't give up the ship," is carved upon its
pictured sides.
Alexander Hamilton
Chamber of Commerce
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Cathedral of St. John the Divine : Morningside Heights,
In course of construction. Corner stone was laid in 1892.
Belmont Chapel is completed. It is estimated that it will cost
$6,000,000 to build the cathedral and take from forty to fifty
years to complete it.
As planned the exterior length of the cathedral is to be
520 ft.; front width, 172 ft.; across transepts, 290 ft. There
are to be seven towers ; the central tower, from floor to top of
cross, 455 ft.; the two front towers, 284 ft. in height; the four
on the sides, 158 ft.
There are to be seven chapels in which Sabbath services
will be held in seven different languages. A feature of the
choir will be eight pillars of granite, each 54.6 ft. high, 18.6 ft.
in circumference, and weighing 120 tons. When in position
they will have cost $120,000.
The Crypt, quarried out of the solid rock, is completed and
is used for Sunday services. Open to visitors Tuesdays, Thurs-
days and Saturdays from 4 to 6 p.m. In the Crypt are the
Tiffany Chapel (exhibited at the World's Fair in Chicago) and
eight Barberini tapestries made in Rome at the factories estab-
lished by Cardinal Barberini in
1633-
St. Paul's Church : Broadway
between Fulton & Vesey Sts. It
is the rear which is seen upon
Broadway, the Church origin-
ally facing the North River and
commanding a fine view of the
stream. This edifice was built
in 1 764-6, and although the third
in the order of its foundation is
now the oldest church building
in the city. Its architecture is
impressive, and its interior a
chaste and carefully preserved
example of the ecclesiastical
fashion of 150 years ago. In
the rear wall, facing Broadway,
is a memorial tablet to General
Richard Montgomery, the hero
of Quebec, while in the church-
yard are monuments to Thomas
Addis Emmet, an Irish patriot,
i /~\ T\ /~\ 1 De Vr itt C-linton
the actor George F. Cooke, and Chamber of Commerce
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to visitors every day. During the British occupation Lord Howe
worshiped here; and later, Washington, whose pew is marked.
Grace Church, at Broadway & loth St., is in view for a long
distance from both directions. The style is decorated Gothic,
elaborately carried out, and the rectory and adjoining build-
ings are harmoniously adapted to it. A pretty space of lawn
and garden makes a pleasing foreground to one of the most
gratifying architectural pictures in New York.
St. Mark's is another venerable church edifice, at Second
Ave. & loth St. (gth St. Station Third Ave. Elevated Ry.).
It covers the site of a chapel built by Stuyvesant, the last of
the Dutch governors, whose bones rest beneath its floor.
The Church of ths Transfiguration in 2gth St., just east
of Fifth Ave., is now known all over the country as "the little
church 'round the corner." This name is said to have been
derived from the refusal some years ago of a certain pastor in
Madison Ave. to perform the burial service over the body of
the aged actor George Holland, bidding the emissary of his
friend (who was Joseph Jefferson) go to "a little church 'round
the corner," where they might be accommodated. Since then
the players of the country have held this church and the
late Dr. Houghton, its pastor, in veneration, and nearly all
actors and actresses who die in New York are buried from it.
A memorial window to Harry Montague is one of its interest-
ing features. It is a low cruciform building in Gothic style,
shaded by trees; its walls are half covered with vines, it has
a pretty lich-gate, and altogether is one of the most attrac-
tive houses of worship in the city.
Presbyterian, First Church, founded in 1716, now occupies
the block on Fifth Ave. between nth & i2th Sts. with one
of the most dignified edifices of its class in New York.
Fifth Ave. Presbyterian, Fifth Ave. & 55th St., is the
most fashionable as well as the most popular of the churches
of this denomination in New York. It is a building of highly
decorated Gothic architecture and the interior presents as
great a contrast to the conventional plain meeting-house of
former days as can well be imagined. Neither carving nor color
has been spared, and the effect produced is rather more that
associated with a theater than with a church — an effect
brought out to its fullest extent by the light wood used in the
paneling and in the construction of the pews, and in the grad-
ual sloping of the floor from the entrance to the pulpit.
Madison Square Church is that of which the Reverend
Charles H. Parkhurst is pastor.
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Trinity Church
from Greenwich and Rector Streets
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Methodist Episcopal: John St. Church occupies the site
of the first Methodist church in America and is known as the
cradle of American Methodism.
Madison Ave. (at No. 659). This is the church made
famous by Dr. Newman, who numbered General Grant among
his parishioners.
Temple Emanu-El, northeast corner of Fifth Ave. & 43d
St., is the finest specimen of Moorish architecture in America,
and one of the costliest religious structures in New York City.
It is built of brown and yellow sandstone, with a roof of
alternate lines of red and black tiles.
St. Patrick's Cathedral, Fifth Ave. between $oth & sist
Sts.. should not be omitted from the list of places strangers
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ought to visit in New York. Except for certain adornments
all the work on the building designing and execution, mechan-
ical and artistic, was done in New York. The cornerstone
was laid on August 15, 1858, in the presence of 100,000 persons,
who had room to stand on the adjacent lots, then vacant. On
May 25, 1879, the structure was dedicated by Cardinal
McCloskey.
The cathedral is an example of the decorated, geometric
style of Gothic architecture which prevailed in Europe from
1275 to 1400, and of which the Cathedral of Cologne and the
nave of Westminster are advanced exponents. Although
Europe can boast larger cathedrals, for purity of style, origi-
nality of design, harmony of proportion, beauty of material, and
finish of workmanship, New York Cathedral stands unsurpassed.
It is cruciform, exterior length, 332 ft., breadth, 174 ft., towers
at base, 32 ft., height of spires, 330 ft. Of the 72 windows 37
are ornamented with subjects from Scripture and the lives of
saints; the principal window is a six-bay representative of St.
Patrick. There are statues of Christ, St. Peter and St. Paul.
The altar is of purest Italian marble inlaid with alabaster
and precious stones. The altar tabernacle is of marble richly
decorated, and has a door of gilt bronze set with emeralds and
garnets. The body of Cardinal McCloskey lies beneath the
altar. The building cost $2,000,000 exclusive of the land.
The cathedral is open during the day.
PROMINENT CHURCHES
Baptist Greek Catholic
Calvary, W. 57th St. between Sixth Holy Virgin Mary, 347 E. I4th St.
& Seventh Aves. T • ^
Fifth Avenue, 8 W. 46th St.
Madison Avenue, Madison Ave. & £eth-,E1. 5th Ave & E 76th St.
E. 3 ist St. Temple Emanu-El, 5th Ave. &
Memorial, Washington Sq. & 43d St.
Thompson St. Lutheran
Congregational Grace, 123 W. 7ist St.
Broadway Tabernacle, Broadway & Holy Trinity, Central Park West
56th St. & W. 65th St.
Disciples of Christ Methodist Episcopal
Lenox Avenue, Union, 74 W. i26th Madison Avenue, Madison Ave. &
St. 6oth St.
Metropolitan Temple, 58 Seventh
Evangelical Ave.
First Church of the Evangelical Union, W. 48th St. near Broadway.
Association, 214 W. 35th St. Washington Square, 137 W. 4th St.
Friends Moravian
East 1 5th St. & Rutherford PI. First, Lexington Ave. & 3Oth St.
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Presbyterian
Brick, Fifth Ave. cor. 37th St.
Fifth Avenue, 5th Ave. & 55th St.
Madison Square, 24th St. & Madi-
son Ave.
Scotch, 96th St. & Central Park
West.
Protestant Episcopal
Cathedral of St. John the Divine,
W. 1 1 3th St. between Amsterdam
& Morningside Aves.
Grace, 800 Broadway.
St. Bartholomew's, 348 Madison
Ave.
St. Pauls' (Trinity Parish), Broad-
way & Vesey St.
St. Thomas, Fifth Ave. & 53d St.
Transfiguration ("Little Church
Around the Corner"), 5 E. 2Qth
St.
Trinity, Broadway & Rector St.
Reformed Church in America
Madison Avenue, Madison Ave. &
57th St.
New York Collegiate:
Knox Memorial, 405 W. 4ist St.
Marble, Fifth Ave. & 29th St.
St. Nicholas, Fifth Ave. & 48th
St.
Reformed Church in U. S.
Martha Memorial, 419 W. 52d St.
Reformed Episcopal
First, Madison Ave. cor. 55th St.
Reformed Presbyterian
Third, 238 W. 23d St.
Roman Catholic
St. Francis Xavier, 36 W. i6th St.
St. Ignatius Loyola, Park Ave. &
E. 84th St.
St. Leo's, 1 1 E. 28th St.
St. Patrick's Cathedral, Fifth Ave.
& soth St.
Seventh Day Adventists
New York Swedish, 308 E. 55th St.
Unitarian
Messiah, E. 34th St. & Park Ave.
United Presbyterian
West 44th St., 434 W. 44th St.
Universalist
Fourth (Divine Paternity), Central
Park West & 76th St.
Miscellaneous
All Night Mission, 8 Bowery.
Beacon Light Rescue Mission, 2372
Third Ave.
.Bowery Mission, 227 Bowery.
Broome St. Tabernacle, 395 Broome
St.
Chinatown Midnight Mission, 17
Doyers St.
Church of Christ (Scientist), Cen-
tral Park West & 96th St.
Doyers St. Mission, 17 Doyers St.
Five Points Mission, 63 Park St.
Helen F. Clark Mission, 195 Worth
St.
Japanese Mission, 330 E. 57th St.
Mariners', 46 Catherine St.
McAuley's Water Street Mission,
316 Water St.
New Thought, Columbus Ave. &
79th St.
Seamans Christian Association, 339
West St.
St. Trinity (Greek Orthodox), 153
E. 72d St.
HOSPITALS AND PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETIES
Bellevue, foot of E. 26th St. A long grayish, four-story,
prison-like structure, enclosed by a high, forbidding stone wall,
situated in a block which extends to the East River. This
is the most widely known hospital in America. It is under
the control of the Department of Charities, which is permitted
to expend upon it about $100,000 annually. For many years it
has been famous for the high medical and surgical skill of
which it is the theater, its faculty embracing many of the
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leading physicians and surgeons cf the city. Admission of
patients is procurable upon the recommendation of a physi-
cian ; victims of accidents and sudden illness may enter at any
time of day or night; regular patients, between 10 a.m. and
3 p.m. Contagious diseases are refused. Hours for visitors,
from ii a.m. to 3 p.m. Within the grounds is the Belle vue
Hospital Medical College, founded in 1861, which has taken
high rank and has now about 500 students.
The Morgue at Bellevue is a small one-story building. In
an inner room, protected by a partition of glass, the unknown
and unclaimed dead lie outstretched, almost -nude, upon marble
slabs, and under the drip of ice water.
Emergency Hospital, 233 E. 26th St. For the relief of
persons taken suddenly ill, and women on their way to maternity
hospital. Other emergency hospitals are Gouverneur, in
Gouverneur Slip; the Fordham Reception Hospital, 2456
Valentine Ave., and the House of Relief, 67 Hudson St.
New York Hospital, 8 W. i6th St. This magnificent struc-
ture, facing W. isth St. (near Fifth Ave.), has every modern
device for health and comfort. The hospital maintains a
branch "house of relief" for cases of accident or sudden illness,
at 67 Hudson St. This branch, as well as the main establish-
ment, has ambulances and gives free treatment in emergency
cases.
Roosevelt, 5gth St. and Ninth Ave.
St. Luke's Hospital, on Morningside Heights is under the
care of the Protestant Episcopal Church, but makes no dis-
tinction as to its patients.
Presbyterian, Madison Ave. and 7oth St. Nine-tenths of
the patients here pay no fees.
St. Vincent's, 149 W. nth St. Visitors, Tuesdays and
Fridays, 3 to 5 p. m.
St. Francis', 605 Fifth Ave., with St. Joseph's, a branch at
1 43d St. and Brook Ave.
St. Elizabeth's, 415 W. sist St.
Five Points House of Industry and Five Points Mission
stand across the street from each other at the Five Points, a
short walk from Broadway through Worth St. Both assist the
destitute of all classes, and find enough to occupy them within
a very few blocks. They support missionaries among the tene-
ment-house people, provide food, clothing, and necessaries for
applicants thought worthy, maintain large schools, and
provide for the health, education, and general betterment of
great numbers of poor and neglected children, hundreds of whonp
are sent annually to homes in the interior of the country.
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The Association for Improving Conditions of the Poor, 105
E. 22d St., annually assists in 20,000 or more carefully investi-
gated cases.
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Madison
Ave. and 26th St. The object of the society is the enforcement
of the laws relating to the protection of, and the prevention of
cruelty to, animals in all parts of the United States.
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 23d St.
and Fourth Ave. Its object is the enforcement of laws relating
to children, their protection against and rescue from oppression
and evil influences, and their help when in need.
Society for the Prevention of Crime. Office, 105 E. 22d St.
Other important philanthropic associations are: Actors'
Fund, 112 W. 42d St.; Baptist Home Mission, 116 E. 68th St.;
Female Guardian Society and Home for the Friendless, 29 E.
29th St. ; Kindergarten Society, 70 Fifth Ave. ; Sabbath Union,
203 Broadway; Seaman's Friend Society, 76 Wall St.; Sunday
School Committee, 416 Lafayette PI. ; Association for Befriend-
ing Women and Young Girls, 136 Second Ave.; Association
Fraterna Italiana, 64 S. Washington Sq. ; Bowery Mission, 55
Bowery; Catholic Sailors' Friends, 178 Christopher St.; Cercle
Frangais L'Amipie, 440 Sixth Ave.; Children's Aid Society,
105 E. 22d St.; City Vigilance League, 105 E. 22d St.; Civil
Service Reform Association, 79 Wall St.; Consumers' League,
105 E. 22d St.; Lutheran Emigrant Mission, 8 State St.; Evan-
gelical Alliance, 105 E. 22d St. ; German Missions, 6 and 27 State
St.; Irish Emigrant Society, 29 Reade.St.; Jewish Immigrant
Protective Association, 210 E. u8th St.; Ladies' Health
Protective Association, 105 E. 22d St.; Legal Aid Society, 239
Broadway; Working Girls' Vacation Society, 105 E. 22d St.;
Penny Provident Fund, 101 E. 22d St. ; Provident Loan Society,
279 Fourth Ave. ; Typothetae, 32 Union Sq., E. ; United Hebrew
Charities, 356 Second Ave.; Working Women's Protective
Union, 312 W. 54th St.; Young Men's Christian Association,
215 W. 23d St.; Young Women's Christian Association, 600
Lexington St.
BROOKLYN AND QUEENS
Fulton St. The main thoroughfare of Brooklyn is Fulton St.
Fulton and Catharine ferries, and the East River bridge connect
with it. Half a mile north of the bridge stands the Court House,
where the celebrated "Beecher trial" took place; near by are
the Hall of Records, the Municipal Bldg. (containing the depart-
mental offices of the local government), and, most prominent,
the City Hall — all costly and imposing buildings. In front of
them stands Ward's bronze statue of Henry Ward Beecher,
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Victory Arch, Entrance to Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Page 121
commemorating him not only as the great preacher but as the
anti-slavery champion and philanthropist.
The principal shops line Fulton St. for half a dozen blocks
above the Court House, while on Washington St., two blocks
south, are the costly new Federal Bldg.and the lofty Eagle Bldg.
Theaters. The principal theaters are: Academy of Music,
Lafayette Ave. near Fulton St.; Majestic, 651 Fulton St.;
Grand Opera House, Elm PL near Fulton St. ; Star, Jay St. near
Fulton St. ; Montauk, Hanover PI. ; Broadway Theater, Broad-
way near Myrtle; Bijou, Smith and Livingston Sts.; Orpheum,
578 Fulton St.; Lee Avenue Academy, Lee Ave. near Division
Ave.; Novelty, Driggs Ave. near S. 4th St., E. D.; Gayety,
Broadway and Throop St., E. D.; Empire, Ralph Ave. and
Quincy.
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The Heights are a steep bluff nearly 100 feet high at
the foot of Montague St. Along the base of the bluffs are
lines of wharves and spacious warehouses which leave room
for only one narrow street. Most of the warehouses are bonded.
Those on the land side are built in excavations under the back
gardens of the dwellings on Columbia Heights, where stand the
residences of many of 'the oldest and most prominent Brooklyn
families. Their windows overlook a grand panorama of the
harbor, the lower part of East River, and the Battery and Wall
St. regions of New York City.
On The Heights, too, are hotels, churches, clubs, and institu-
tions of learning, including the Art Association, and, opposite,
the Brooklyn Library. The Long Island Historical Society
is at the corner of Clinton and Pierpont Sts. It owns a library
of more than 80,000 volumes and pamphlets, and a
museum of historical and curious objects. Clinton St. was for
many years the Fifth Ave. of Brooklyn, and no part of the city
is more fashionable than the blocks along Montague, Pierpont,
Remsen, arid some other streets leading from Clinton St. to
the river bluff. The leading clubs are the Brooklyn, Hamilton,
Excelsior, Crescent Athletic Club, and Jefferson Democratic
Club — while on "The Hill" are the Republican Union League
Club, the Lincoln, and the Montauk.
It was the number of fine houses of worship, not to speak of
many smaller ones, in this conspicuous part of town which
gave to Brooklyn the name "City of Churches."
Plymouth Church, made famous by Henry Ward Beecher,
was until 1899 presided over by Dr. Lyman Abbott. It is on
Orange St. between Hicks and Henry Sts., within easy walking
distance of either Fulton Ferry or the Bridge. The edifice is
merely a great brick "barn," and within has no ornamentation
inconsistent with its outward simplicity. It was built in 1847,
and its pulpit was occupied 40 years by Mr. Beecher, until his
death in 1887. Its most prominent members dwell near by, but
a large part of the regular congregation gathers from remote
quarters of the city, while a throng of strangers from all parts
of the country is seen within its doors each Sunday. Mr.
Beecher lived and died not far away, at 124 Hicks St., corner of
Clark St. The present pastor is Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis.
Another famous Congregational church on The Heights is
Dr. H. P. Dewey's Church of the Pilgrims, at the corner of
Henry and Remsen Sts. Next to the Historical Society's Bldg.
is Holy Trinity, the leading Episcopal church of Brooklyn,
under the pastorate of the Rev. Dr. J. H. Melish; St. Ann's
is only a block or two distant.
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PROMINENT CHURCHES
Note: Directories of places of worship are displayed in all
principal hotels. Therefore these pages make mention only of
the more distinguished.
Baptist
Baptist Temple, 3d, corner Scher-
merhorn.
Christian Scientist
First Church of Christ, Dean &
New York Ave.
Congregational
Plymouth, Orange, near Henry.
Disciples of Christ
First Church of Christ, 123 Sterling
PI.
Evangelical
Emanuel, 400 Melrose.
Friends
Soc. Friends (Orth'x), Lafayette,
corner Washington.
Jewish
Israel, Bedford & Lafayette Aves.
Lutheran
St. Peter's, Bedford Ave., near
De Kalb.
Methodist Episcopal
Janes, Monroe, Corner Reid Ave.
Methodist Episcopal (African)
Bridge St. A. M. E., 313 Bridge.
Methodist Free
First, 1 6th St., near 4th Ave.
Methodist Primitive
First, Park PL, near Nostrand Ave.
Methodist Protestant
Grace (Canarsie), E. Q2d & Church
Lane.
Pentecostal
Nazarene, Utica Ave., between Ber-
gen & Dean.
Presbyterian
Lafayette Ave., Lafayette Ave.,
corner S. Oxford.
Presbyterian — United
Second, Bond and Atlantic Ave.
Protestant Episcopal
Holy Trinity, Clinton, corner Mon-
tague.
Reformed Church in America
First, yth Ave, and Carroll.
Reformed Church in the U. S.
Christ Evangelical, 54 Wyona.
Reformed Episcopal
Reconciliation, Nostrand & Jeffer-
son Aves.
Seventh Day Adventists
First German, 1831 Gates Ave.
Swedenborgian
Church of New Jerusalem, Monroe.
PI. & Clark. '
Unitarian
Church of the Saviour, Pierrepont
& Monroe PI.
Universalist
All Souls, Ocean, corner Ditmas
Ave.
Miscellaneous
First Free Baptist, Keap, corner
Marcy Ave.
Roman Catholic
Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary,
Degraw & Hicks.
COLLEGES, ACADEMIES AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS
Adelphi College— Clifton and St. James Pis.
Brooklyn College — Nostrand Ave., Carroll and Crown Sts.
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Brooklyn Heights Seminary — 18 Pierrepont St
Friends School — 112 Schermerhorn St.
Froebel Academy — 687 Lafayette Ave.
Packer Collegiate Inst. — 170 Joralemon.
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.
Pratt Institute — 215 Ryerson St.
St. Agnes Seminary — 283-287 Union St.
St. Francis College and Academy — 41 Butler St.
St. Francis Xavier Academy — 697 Carroll St.
St. John's College — Willoughby Ave., cor. Lewis St.
Y. M. C. A. — ii Bond, 1125 Bedford Ave., Marcy Ave. and
S. gth St.
Prospect Park. Prospect Park overlooks the populous wards
of South Brooklyn and the New York Harbor on one side, and
the Atlantic shore toward Coney Island on the other. It is
nearly as large as Central Park, at least as beautiful, and con-
tains, among its ornaments, a statue to John Howard Payne,
author of Home Sweet Home, and a bronze tablet noting the
site (Battle-Pass) of a critical part of the Battle of Long Island,
which took place on these hills. From Lookout Hill a magnifi-
cent view is to be gained, reaching from the Atlantic horizon to
the Palisades and the Orange Hills; and on certain lawns,
especially on Sunday afternoons, hundreds of brightly appareled
young people may be seen playing tennis or croquet, practicing
archery, or otherwise actively amusing themselves. The park
is reached by the following trolley lines : From Fulton Ferry or
the Bridge entrance, Flatbush Ave. line (the most direct);
Adams and Bocrum PL line, and Franklin Ave. line; from
Hamilton (south) Ferry, to Hamilton Ave. and Prospect Park
line; and from Broadway (Williamsburg) Ferry, the Nostrand
Ave. line. The distance is about 2>^ miles from any of the
ferries, but the route from Fulton Ferry or the Bridge is the
most interesting. None of the elevated roads goes near the park.
The picturesque Water Tower near the Plaza overlooks the
whole region.
The Park Plaza is a large paved space at the principal
entrance to Prospect Park, where Flatbush Ave., Eastern Boule-
vard, and several other streets converge. The center of the
Plaza is ornamented by a memorial to the soldiers and sailors
of the Civil War, the memorial being surmounted by a colossal
bronze group by Frederick MacMonnies, representing the
chariot of victory led by heralds of peace. The arch is hollow,
and stairways, open to the public, permit one to ascend to the
top for a closer view of this work of art, which gains upon
nearer inspection.
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At a little distance is an electric fountain, illuminated at
frequent intervals during the summer. Just within the park
entrance stands a most excellent portrait-statue, also by Mac-
Monnies, of J. S. Stranahan, who, at the time of his death, in
1897, was called Brooklyn's foremost citizen, and had been
more active than any one else in establishing this and other
parks in the city.
The Museum of the Brooklyn Institute is an eighth of a
mile east of the Park Plaza. Entrance is free to the public from
Wednesday to Saturday; 25 cents admission fee on Monday
and Tuesday. The collections consist of a large amount of
varied material, displayed in suitable cases and well worth
seeing. The zoological collection is especially complete, and
includes an excellent display of local birds and insects. A con-
siderable amount of geological, mineralogical, and ethnological
material has been gathered and arranged, and the beginning of
an art gallery has been made.
Greenwood Cemetery. This famous city of the dead covers
a square mile of the highlands that lie back of South Brooklyn
and overlook New York Harbor. It is 2 % miles from Brooklyn
Bridge and is reached most directly by the Fifth Ave. line
of the Brooklyn elevated railway, which has a station at its
principal (northern) entrance. Here carriages will be found
which make the tour of the cemetery, and as he goes along the
driver explains what are generally regarded as the most inter-
esting sights. The charge for the ride is 25 cents. There is no
burying ground in the country which compares with Greenwood
in the cost and elaborateness of its mortuary, or the care given
it as a whole. The stone-bedded, tile-drained roads measure
25 miles in length.
The imposing Gothic gateway at the principal entrance is
of brownstone, elaborately carved, and holds the offices of the
the administrators and a visitors' room. Waiting-rooms fur-
nished with toilet rooms and other accommodations will be
found at the other entrances also. Near the center of the ceme-
tery, at the intersection of Locust and Southwood Aves., is " The
Shelter House, " designed for the shelter of visitors who chance
to be remote from the various entrances and need the conveni-
ences which it affords.
Among the more notable memorials are :
The bust of Horace Greeley, erected by the printers of the
country, on Locust Hill near Oak Ave.
On Highwood Hill the triangular block covering the remains
of Professor S. F. B. Morse, the inventor of the electric telegraph,
overlooks the Clinton Monument.
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The Soldiers' Monument stands on the plateau of Battle Hill,
whence a broad view is to be gained. It was erected in memory
of 148,000 soldiers who died in the Civil War.
Opposite the main entrance stands the Theater Fire Mon-
ument, underneath which, in a common grave, rest the un-
recognized and unclaimed bodies of those who perished in the
burning of the Brooklyn Theater, in December, 1876, when
more than 300 people lost their lives.
The Firemen's Monument is surmounted by the figure of a
fireman holding a child in his arms. It was erected by the old
volunteer fire department of New York City, whose chief
engineer, Harry Howard, has placed elsewhere in the grounds a
statue in memory of his foster mother, showing her as adopting
him when saved from a burning building.
Many of the monuments take the form of Greek or Gothic
memorial chapels, one of the most conspicuous and beautiful of
which is that of Miss Mary M. Dauser, at the intersection of
Fir and Vine Aves.
Another" temple worthy of special attention is that of
A. S. Scribner, at Cypress and Vine Aves. It was made in
Italy and contains a figure representing Hope.
The monument to commemorate John Matthews, at the
southwesterly end of Valley Water, has the form of a richly
carved canopy and spire above a sculptured sarcophagus, upon
the top of which lies a full-length marble figure of the dead man.
On the tablet under the canopy is a veiled female figure seated
in a chair, typifying grief. The artist was Carl Miller, and the
cost of the monument, $30,000.
The Pilot's Monument, erected by the pilots of New York
Harbor to a hero among them, and The Sea Captain's Statue
(representing Captain John Correka, holding the actual sextant
he was accustomed to use) will interest those fond of the sea.
Other fine and costly carvings in Italian marble are seen in
the monument to the Brown brothers, New York bankers; in
the emblematic group standing in the lot of the elder James
Gordon Bennett, founder of the New York Herald; and in the
famous Charlotte Canda monument, at Fern and Greenbough
Aves. The colossal bronze statue of Governor DeWitt Clinton
in Baywood Dell should not be missed by the visitor to Green-
wood, who will come away feeling that it is perhaps as satis-
factory as any of the more pretentious memorials in the
cemetery. There are about 325,000 persons buried in
Greenwood.
The Grant Statue. At Grant Sq. where Bergen St. crosses
Bedford Ave. Of heroic size, this statue is worthy of the
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attention of tourists. It was presented to the city by the
Union League Club, and stands in front of their splendid club
house. It is in bronze, the work of Partridge, and represents
General Grant in campaign dress, on his favorite horse as he
appeared at the Battle of the Wilderness.
The Navy Yard. On the Wallabout basin, an indentation
of East River, where in Revolutionary days was moored the
dreadful "Jersey," worst of the prison hulks. The yard is at the
foot of York St., and may be reached from all parts of Brooklyn
by electric cars, two lines crossing the bridge to Manhattan.
This is the foremost naval station in the country, and its
brick wall embraces a space of 45 acres in the yard proper,
while 100 acres closely adjacent also belong to the establish-
ment. The United States Naval Lyceum, founded by officers
of the navy in 1833, is here. It has a fine library and a large
collection of historical curiosities, together with valuable geo-
logical and mineralogical cabinets.
The Navy Yard consists of two portions separated by the
deep bay of "the basin," or Wallabout, into which the dry-
docks open. The peninsular part outside the basin is called
the Cob Dock and forms an extensive park-like space, where
musters and drills of sailors, marines, and recruits may be
witnessed. The great yellow hulk, housed and permanently
moored on the outer margin of the Cob Dock, is the old frigate
"Vermont," which now forms a "receiving ship" (recruiting
station) .
Of the big battleships built at this yard the most recent
were the "Connecticut," in 1904, the "Florida" launched in
1910, and the "New York" (of the super-dreadnaught class)
in 1912.
About 2,000 men are ordinarily employed at the yard.
RICHMOND
Staten Island. The ferry from New York lands at St. George,
at the northern extremity of the island. The terminus of the
Baltimore & Ohio's branch line is used exclusively as a freight-
carrying route. St. George is also the central station of the
Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad, which reaches all the
shore villages of importance.
Staten Island is hilly and contains many attractive spots
and much excellent farming land. Its length is more than 13
miles, its greatest width 7f£ miles, and it has 13 miles of ocean
frontage. Quaint old ports are scattered along the southern
shore, and odd little villages throughout the interior. But
interspersed everywhere are the modern and luxurious country
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residences of wealthy New Yorkers, who go back and forth
daily. The interior of the island is traversed only by wagon
roads; Richmond, the judicial seat of the island when it was
Richmond County, is itself away from the railroad, but acces-
sible by trolley cars from St. George.
Sailor's Snug Harbor, an asylum for aged and infirm sea-
men half a mile beyond New Brighton, is the outgrowth of a
bequest made at the beginning of the last century by Captain
Richard Randall, then a prominent member of the Marine
Society of New York. The bequest consisted mainly of his
farm, the southern boundary of which is the line of the present
Astor place. The farm yielded the trustees about $40,000,
which has been so carefully managed that the property now
approaches $18,000,000 in value, and the income suffices to
care for 1000 beneficiaries. About 750 pensioners are at present
on the rolls, all of whom have seen a certain amount of actual
service as sailors. A mortuary monument covering the
remains of the founder stands near the main entrance, and the
bronze statue of Randall by Augustus St. Gaudens, in another
part of the park, is one of the most satisfactory pieces of sculp-
ture in the neighborhood of New York. Within the buildings,
the visitor should take pains to see the workshops, where scores
of cheerful old mariners sit in the sunshine, smoke their pipes,
and work at plaiting baskets, mats, and other articles of straw,
netting hammocks, fishnets, and tidies, and rigging toy models
of painfully accurate schooners, brigs, and full-rigged ships.
These articles are sold by them, and the more able and indus-
trious make a considerable income in this way. The Sailor's
Snug Harbor is as sunny and cheerful a refuge as can be found
in the Union.
Prohibition Park ( Westerleigh) . Reached by cars from
St. George or Port Richmond, Prohibition Park is an exclusive
community of persons primarily interested in the prohibition
of intoxicating liquor as a beverage. A feature of the place is
the great auditoriun in which a summer program of lectures,
exhibitions, conventions, and meetings is in progress from June
to October, attracting a large number of visitors interested in
various movements.
THE ISLANDS
Ellis Island. A small island between the Statue of Liberty
and the Communipaw shore. Hither all steerage passengers are
transferred from the steamers in which they arrive, and before
they can land must be examined as to their eligibility as citizens
and be fully recorded. If they are bound for some interior point
they are put in charge of railway or steamship agents, and by
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them conducted to trains or steamers. Paupers, diseased per-
sons, criminals, and contract laborers are sent back at the
expense of the steamship companies. The Government never
loses sight of nor ceases to protect the immigrant until he is
prepared to face the new life. A ferry boat (free) runs between
the Battery and the Island every 40 minutes during working
hours.
Governor's Island (about a half-mile distant from the
Battery) contained but 65 acres when purchased from the
Indians by Governor Van T wilier in 1634. Recently it has
been enlarged to 120 acres by the building of a sea wall and
filling in. Here are located the headquarters of the eastern
division of the army of the United States, with complete outfit
for 100,000 men. Castle William, built in 1812, is now used
as a military prison.
Blackwell's Island, 1 20 acres in extent, lies in East River from
5oth to 86th Sts. It is the site of the Metropolitan Hospital,
the Workhouse for those convicted of minor offenses, the City
Home for the aged and infirm, the Penitentiary for those sen-
tenced to less than a year, and the City Hospital.
Randall's Island consists of 100 acres at the entrance to
Harlem River. Thereon are the children's hospital, schools, and
home, where waifs are cared for by the Charities Department,
and the House of Refuge for the training of youthful delinquents.
Swinburne Island is located in Lower Bay, 2 miles from the
Narrows. Persons with infectious diseases, such as typhus, yellow
fever, bubonic plague, smallpox, and cholera, are disembarked
here. The buildings are the hospitals, crematory, and physi-
cian's residence.
Hoffman Island. Situated in Lower Bay, one mile from the
Narrows, Hoffman Island is a place for the detention of well
persons arriving on infected vessels, as well as for those suffer-
ing from minor infectious diseases. Infectious cases of a more
serious nature are sent to Swinburne Island. Persons exposed
to infection are held at Hoffman Island, and here ships are
disinfected.
LONG ISLAND COAST
Coney Island proper, including West Brighton, is the most
western, the oldest, most crowded, and most democratic part
of the whole series of beaches popularly known as Coney Island.
Everything that can be thought of for entertainment and penny-
catching is here in its latest form. Out from the beach extend
two long iron piers, with bathing houses, restaurants, and
other accommodations beneath them, and here steamboats
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from New York land their passengers. The beach may also
be reached by electric trolley cars. The bathing arrangements
are good.
West Brighton Beach is thronged with people of every kind
from noon until midnight, and is most crowded on Sundays.
Brighton. Brighton, half a mile east of West Brighton, is
the favorite beach for Brooklyn people. Here is a huge hotel,
which has been repeatedly moved back from the shore, out of
the reach of the waves; the beautiful grounds have more than
once been ruined by the gale and salt spray. The piazzas
are so broad that 2000 persons at a time may sit at the tables
placed on them, and still leave ample space for promenading;
20,000 meals may be given in a single day. The bathing
houses are of great size and are conveniently arranged, but
none of them obstructs the seaward view. An excellent vaude-
ville show is the only amusement outside the hotel and
bathing beach. Reached by elevated cars from Brooklyn Bridge
and by trolley cars from Coney Island.
Manhattan Beach. This resort, immediately east of
Brighton Beach, is the favorite place for New Yorkers of the
well-to-do class, and is undoubtedly the spot to which the visitor
will return most often.
Manhattan Beach is occupied by the buildings and grounds
of two vast hotels, the Manhattan and the Oriental. The
former is at the terminus of the railroad from New York and
Brooklyn and nearest Brighton. The beach in front is pro-
tected by a piled breakwater which supports a planked walk.
Surrounding the hotel a broad space of lawns, flower beds and
asphalted walks has been laid out and provided with a great
number of park benches. Half a mile eastward, and con-
nected with the Manhattan by a broad walk and series of lawns,
is the great Oriental Hotel, with its esplanade and bathing
establishment. The beach is reached by steam and electric
trolley cars.
Rockaway. The next beach east of Coney Island (from
which it is separated bv th - outlet of Jamaica Bay), is Rockaway.
This is one of the oldest seaside resorts on Long Island shore
and may be reached either by the Long Island Railroad, by
Brooklyn trolley cars, or by steamboat.
ENVIRONS
Yonkers, on the Hudson, joins the northern limits of
New York. It has 90,000 citizens, a great part of whom come
regularly to business in the metropolis.
Mount Vernon. A city of 30,909 inhabitants,with stations
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on both the New York Central & Hudson River and the New
York, New Haven & Hartford railroads, Mount Vernon covers
the central hills east of Yonkers. It contains many beautiful
drives.
Westchester, the historic, is still farther south and east.
Eastchester and Pelham are hamlets at the head of inlets
from Long Island Sound, traversed by the Harlem River
Branch of the New Haven Railroad.
New Rochelle, a town of 28,867 inhabitants, 17 miles from
Grand Central Terminal, on the New Haven Railroad, is exceed-
ingly pretty, and is popular with New Yorkers. It was settled
in very early times by Huguenots, and preserves many inter-
esting relics of its colonial period. It may be reached by trolley
via Mount Vernon.
Jersey City. With a population of 267,779, Jersey City
stretches from opposite the Statue of Liberty to the Hoboken
line opposite the foot of Christopher St., Manhattan, and back
to the Hackensack River Meadows. The water front is for the
most part in possession of railway and steamship companies.
Behind the property of these companies are a great many
factories, some of immense proportions. The lofty piles of the
sugar refineries form a conspicuous group near the center of
the city as one crosses from New York. A mile back from the
river front the long, rocky ridge of Bergen Heights, a continua-
tion of the Hudson Highlands, extends north and south in an
elevated peninsula between New York and Newark bays, as
far as the pretty village of Bergen Point. Upon this hill are
many pleasant streets and some fine churches and schools.
Electric trolley cars run to all parts of the city and to the
neighboring cities, including Newark, which may be reached by
several lines. All of these trolley lines concentrate in a union
station at the foot of Montgomery St., the landing place for the
ferries from Cortlandt and Desbrosses Sts., New York. The
Pennsylvania Railroad station is at this ferry.
Hoboken. North of Jersey City the water front of
Hoboken is lined by the wharves of several great trans-Atlantic
steamer lines, particularly those sailing to the German ports,
and by the station of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Railway system. At this station land the "Hoboken" ferries
from Christopher and Barclay Sts. ; and here start the electric
cars of the elevated railroad which runs to the hilltop and
the Hudson County Court House, as well as of various surface
lines. The population of Hoboken, 70,324, is chiefly German,
and is largely devoted to manufacturing. The city has one
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distinctly American institution, however, in the Stevens Insti-
tute, which occupies a wooded promontory of rock jutting out
into the river conspicuously and covered by a pretty park.
This is a polytechnic and scientific school of high rank, founded
by the late Commodore Stevens who equipped the "Stevens
Battery," famous in the early days of the Civil War, and whose
"castle" overtops the trees of what was formerly his estate.
Weehawken, with a population of 11,228, is a small city
north of Hoboken and under the hill, which here approaches
the water more closely than at Hoboken. It was the scene of
Revolutionary operations, and, here, a few years later, Alex-
ander Hamilton and Aaron Burr fought the duel which cost
Hamilton his life. Now it is known principally as the terminus
of the West Shore and of the New York, Ontario & Western
railroads. It is connected with 42d St. and Cortlandt St., New
York, by ferries. On the summit of the lofty bluffs is a
scattered German community, and there are pleasant strolling
places along the wooded cliffs northward, which command a
magnificent outlook far down the bay. This locality is reached
from the ferry by an electric line, whose cars run to Hudson
Heights and Fort Lee.
Long Island. Brooklyn and Queens occupy but 12.5 per
cent of the area of Long Island, which stretches 123 miles east
and west, with a varying width of from 15 to 25 miles. . It is the
largest island on the eastern coast of the United States, having
almost as great an area as the entire state of Delaware. The
island has more than 400 miles of shore line and nearly 1000
miles of fine macadam roads. Its shores harbor the "Blue
Point," and the famous "Rockaway" oyster, and the "Little
Neck" clam. Along the roads of Hempstead Plains the Vander-
bilt automobile races take their course. The island is at the
same time the front dooryard to New York City and its market
garden. It is claimed that the range of temperature on Long
Island is less than at any other place in the United States
except Corpus Christi, Eureka (Cal.), Galveston, and Key West.
Long Island is gridironed with electric railways. From the
Pennsylvania station on Manhattan Island and from the Man-
hattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge through trains are run to all
principal points on the island. The south shore contains the
well-known resorts of Coney Island, Manhattan, and the Rock-
away beaches, Edgemere, Arverne, Long Beach, Babylon, Bay
Shore, Islip, and Blue Point.
Atlantic Highlands. A village on Sandy Hook, with several
hotels. There is much of picturesque and historic interest in
the neighborhood. Reached by the Sandy Hook steamers.
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Long Branch. Long Branch includes sections known as
Elberon, West End, Holly Wood, Norwood, Branchport, East
Long Branch, North Long Branch, and Pleasure Bay. There
are about 40 hotels, with ample accommodations. Frequent
trains via the Pennsylvania, the Central Railroad of New
Jersey, and the Sandy Hook (steamers New York to Sandy
Hook, thence rail) connect New York and Long Branch, and
there is splendid river boat service eight months in the year.
An electric line connects Long Branch with practically all
the resorts along the northern shore of New Jersey.
Asbury Park, located on the North Jersey Coast fifty
miles south of New York, is the social center of a chain of
twenty notable resorts extending from Sandy Hook to Sea
Girt. It has all the best attractions of every other seaside
resort in America, but stands alone for its marvelous com-
bination of country and seashore. Three fresh-water lakes
afford all the delights of canoeing. Its great stretch of ocean
front is bordered by one of the finest promenades in the
world. Seven beaches of soft, clean sand give health and
delight to thousands. Especially for children is Asbury Park
a paradise, its free pavilions and recreation pier forming a
popular feature. At the Arcade one of the best bands plays
twice daily. In the Casino high-class theatricals are a nightly
feature, while at the Auditorium at Ocean Grove, seating
thousands, oratorios and concerts are given all summer by a
permanent chorus of one thousand voices and orchestra of
sixty-five, and the most powerful organ in the world. Many
of the stars of Grand Opera and the best musical organizations
of America can be heard there. The features herewith
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seaside resorts of the new century.
It is reached all rail by the Pennsylvania system and the
Central Railroad of New Jersey ; by the express steamers and
trains of the Sandy Hook Route. Excursion fare, unlimited
ticket, good on all routes, $1.75. One hundred trains, vesti-
buled and parlor car service, each day. Patten Line boats for
Pleasure Bay, connecting with Asbury Park trolley, leave the
Battery four times daily, 80 cents for the round trip.
Ocean Grove. A seaside town under the control of an
association of Methodist clergymen.
About 250 hotels, provide good accommodations at rates
within the reach of all purses.
Transportation from New York City is via the Pennsyl-
vania, the Central Railroad of New Jersey, and the Sandy
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