Identifier: treatsillustrate00trea (find matches)
Title: Treat's illustrated New York, Philadelphia and surroundings
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Treat, E. B. (Erastus Buck), 1838-1928 Durst, Seymour B., 1913- former owner. NNC
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Publisher: New York, E.B. Treat
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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from 42d-street, bysteamboats from Fulton Ferry and HarlemBridge, or by carriage through the Park.The view from this lofty observatory isenchanting. Returning by carriage, onemay peep at the Bloomingdale InsaneAsylum; or, by making a detour west-ward, one may see the New York JuvenileAsylum, at 176th-street, pass over Wash-ington Heights (the finest part of theisland in the summer) to the largest insti-tution in the world for the educating ofthe deaf and dumb, to the Colored OrphanAsylum, and return by the Boulevard. Another rare excursion is to the islandsof the East River. To visit them, go to theoffice of the Commissioners of Charitiesand Corrections, corner Eleventh-streetand Third Avenue, and obtain a permit,then to foot of East Twenty-sixth-street,and take steamer to Blackwells Island,Wards Island, and Randalls Island.Still further up the river is Harts Islandand the School Ship. See Bright Sideof New York for thorough history ofall New York institutions. 80 ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK
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AND PHILADELPHIA 31 Excursions Down the Bay. The most charming of all is a trip oftwenty-four miles to Long Branch, asail of one hour by steamboat to SandyHook, thence by steam-car twenty min-utes to the famous watering-place andsummer capital of the government—President Grants residence. As youjourney you pass the Battery, Castle Gar-den, Governors Island, Fort Lafayette,Fort Hamilton, and Sandy Hook Light-house to the left, and Staten Island, FortWadsworth, Quarantine, and NavesinkLight-house to the right. After a surf-bath and a promenade among the elite,inhaling the sea-breezes, you are fullyprepared to do justice to the viands fur-nished by any of the numerous first-classHotels that line the bluff for nearly twomiles. Coney Island was for many years theleading sea-side resort. It is still patron-ized by crowds that indulge in its mostexcellent surf-bathing. It is reached bysteamboat or by the Brooklyn horse-carsthat pass Greenwood Cemetery. Keyport, noted for its oysters andfis

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