Identifier: newyorkbysunligh00mcca_1 (find matches)
Title: New York by sunlight and gaslight : a work descriptive of the great American metropolis ; its high and low life; its splendors and miseries; its virtu
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: McCabe, James D., 1842-1883.
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Publisher: New York : Union Publishing House
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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es a glimpse of thestately edifices with which the street is lined. Passing Trinity Churchyard we notice the immensebrick building which forms its upper boundary. Thisis the headquarters of the coal trade, not only of thecity, but of a large portion of the Union, and herefortunes are made and lost by wise or unwise dealingsin black diamonds. Insurance offices now begin tomultiply on both sides of the street, and on the rightwe notice the superb structure of the Equitable LifeInsurance Company, above which is the marble build-ing of the Mutual Life. These are very Towers ofBabel, and dwarf the neighboring structures, which arethemselves buildings of large proportions. On the left,at the corner of Dey street, the tall tower of theWestern Union Telegraph Company rears its loftyhead, and from it a bewildering network of wiresstretches away in all directions, high overhead, and look-ing like a gigantic spiders web drawn against the sky.Across the way, at the corner of Fulton street, is the
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142 NEW YORK. office of The Evening Post, eight or nine stones inheight, a massive structure of brick. On the sameside, above Fulton street, is the beautiful white marblebuilding of the National Park Bank, its front elaboratelyornamented with statuary, one of the most sumptuousbank edifices in the city. Next door is the HeraldBuilding, also of white marble, in which is published theKing of American Dailies, the world-famous New YorkHerald, Opposite these two buildings, on the westside of Broadway, occupying the entire block fromFulton to Vesey streets, is St. Pauls churchyard, withits rows of crumbling tombstones. In it stands thevenerable St. Pauls Church, one of the few ante-Revo-lutionary buildings remaining in the city. In thischurch the Father of his country, in the early periodof the War of Independence, heard himself denouncedby the Royalist clergyman as a Traitor to his Kingand his God. The square above the church is occu-pied by the Astor House, once the most famous hotelin N

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