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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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. North side of Liberty Street, corner Of Liberty Place.Here is located the oldest commercial corporation in the Initcd States, having beenorganized 1768. The building, of white Vermont marble with a granite base, waserected in 1902 and cost over, $1,500,000. The main hall is 90x«> feet. HALL OF RECORDS. Chambers, Reade and Center streets. A splendid fire-prcofstructure built of steel and Maine Granite, for the safe-keeping of real estate deeds,mortgages, etc.. of Manhattan Borough, also for Surrogates Courts and City Offices.Erected 1904, and cost $5,000,000.
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GRAND CENTRAL STATION. 42d to 45th streets, Vanderbilt Avenue to Depew Place. An immense six-storied building, reconstructed in 18SI8. The most con-venient and capacious railroad station in the country. The New York terminus of the New York Central lines, comprising numerous railroads operating 11,126miles east of the Mississippi. Here are terminal facilities also for the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. The great train shed is 7(Xl feet long. It isestimated that 12,000,tKX) people pass through this station annually. The head offices of the New York Central and the New York offices of the New Haven roadare on the upper floors.

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