Identifier: scenesofmodernne00durs (find matches)
Title: Scenes of modern New York.
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC L.H. Nelson Company
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Publisher: Portland, Me. : L.H. Nelson
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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seats, a rest house and fountains are provided for the comfort and pleasure of the people. BATTERY PARK is the name applied to the triangular green at the southern extremity of the city. From here a fine view of the bay may be obtained. TheBattery Park contains twenty-one acres, is shaded by many trees, and has a broad walk along the sea wall. It is always thronged with immigrants and loungers. BROADWAY AT 32d STREET. At no other point inthe city^except perhaps at the entrance to Brooklyn Bridge is street traffic so congested from time to timeas at this busy corner. Surface cars moving in rapid succession on both Broadway and Sixth Avenue and the vast army of pedestrians and vehicles make this oneof the most difficult crossings in New York. The view shows a station of the elevated road with entrances and exits and separate platforms for up-town and down-town trains. The elevated roads are now operated by electricity(and consist of fourjnain double-track lines and a few short branches.
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BROADWAY FROM CHAMBERS STREET. The great avenue of New Yorks WALL STREET. The money center of America, the text for political tirades, the business life. No cither street iii America pan show such activity, such a variety of target for many a sermon. Fortunes made or lost every hour of the business day. architecture, such throngs of people. The surface cars follow each other in a never- In the (tenter of the view is Trinity Church, at which point Wall Street begins, ex- ending procession. Broadway starts at Bowling Green and extends to Yonkers, a tending to the East Kiver. The low building at the right is the U. S. Suli-treasury; distance of 14 miles. the skyscraper beyond, the Gillender Building.

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