Identifier: oldnewyorkyester00brow (find matches)
Title: Old New York yesterday & today
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Brown, Henry Collins, 1862-1961
Subjects: Historic buildings
Publisher: New York : Priv. print for Valentine's Manual and to be sold at the Sign of the Dog and Duck
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ij^Mlli ^jttterg ^ark ani» ^tate Street This view shows the striking contrast between New York buildings of the early nineteenth and of the twentiethcenturies. The little houses on the right were in 1810 or thereabouts the most imposing in town, and are all thatremain of this famous block, which included the homes of James D. Wolfe, Robert Lenox, Thomas W. Ludlow,Archibald Gracie, Joseph P. Phoenix, Moses Rogers, Chancellor Livingston, Robert Fulton, John B.Cole, and others.For many years this stately old street, commanding, as it did, a splendid unobstructed view of one of the rnag-nificent harbors of the world and the wooded heights of Brooklyn across the river, was deservedly the most fash-ionable and exclusive residential section of the city. Tht RogtTi housr IS thr one uith ihi columns. The Grade and Livingston houses adjoin on the leftPainlel by Everett L. Warner. ©
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JV ^ag in tt;E ^ife of a ^irEnTait. 31ump ^er, Jioos, 3lump ^er Half a century has barely passed since New York depended entirely upon volunteer firemen for protection against this great public danger. She was last among the great cities to change from the old system to the new. In these old Currier & Ives lithographs the figures shown in the pictures are portraits of well known members of the various companies, old Harry Howard showing conspicuously among them. This print shows the fire apparatus being drawn past City Hall Park.

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