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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ll,handsome, enclosed parks, from which the avenue takesits name, planted with flowers and shrubbery, whichgive to the street a pleasant and somewhat ruralaspect. Each of these individually is a city square inlength, and is pierced with a grated aperture, throughwhich light and air are supplied to the tunnel below. Afine roadway runs^on each side of the enclosures, andaffords ample room for the travel of the street. Theavenue is noted for its exclusiveness. Being so short,and being already occupied, there is no room for newcomers. Lexington avenue, commencing at 14th street andlying midway between Third and Fourth avenues, isthe next street east of Park avenue. It is broken at20th street by Grammercy Park, which extends to 21 ststreet, but above that street the avenue extends in anunbroken line to the Harlem River. From 14th streetto Grammercy Park it is known as Irving Place. It ishandsomely built, brownstone being the prevailingmaterial. The lower part, around and above Gram- « 1^.
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THIRD AVENUE. 267 mercy Park is occupied by the residences of familiesof wealth and fashion, but the upper part makes littleclaim to social distinction. It is a pleasant residencestreet, and one of the cleanest in the city. 34th and 57th streets are lined for several squares^east and west of Fifth avenue, with palatial mansions,and are among the ultra fashionable thoroughfares.Indeed, nearly all the cross streets above 34th, andbetween Lexington and Sixth avenues, are magnificentlybuilt, and are included within the limits of the world offashion. Many of these streets, within the boundariesnamed, are built up solidly with splendid mansionswhich would do credit even to Fifth avenue. The Third avenue begins at 9th street, where it joinsthe Bowery, and runs in a straight line to the HarlemRiver at 130th street. It is six miles in length, and hasalways been the principal thoroughfare of the east sideof the island. It is now traversed by the ElevatedRailroad and a line of horse cars, each o

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