- - - - - --- 4C 0% "-~= I., l, -~ c ol 181;0 ^^^^b MANHATTAN * THE MAGICAL ISLAND .4 - . Lq The Magical Island One Hundred and Eight Pictures of Manhattan With Prelude and Descriptive Notes BY BEN JUDAR LUB~QLE Z Felkow of the American?gJi7~ NEW YORK' Press of the American Institute of Architects, Inc. * C MCMXX VII E 1A5RAl,~ Copyright 19-27 by Ben Judah Lubschez... so B.W.L. WHOSE TOLERANT PATIENCE WITH MY FREQUENT DERANGEMENT OF OUR HOME IN ITS USE AS A PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKSHOP AND WHOSE CONTINUAL ENCOURAGEMENT MADE POSSIBLE THE PREPARATION OF THIS BOOK. I PREFACE OR fifteen years I have been recording impressions of New York, using the camera instead of the pencil because I felt that I could photograph better than I could draw, and for the additional reason that with the camera there is little chance to succumb to the temptation of embellishing realities with a beauty or picturesqueness which does not exist in fact. Although I wanted a faithful record, it was never my intention to gather a group of mere views. It was my hope, rather, to form through a series of impressions, something of a composite pidure of the magic and fascination of Manhattan, its architecture, its life, its ceaseless turmoil. Many sections of the city and many well known landmarks of considerable interest and character have been omitted either because they seemed of less importance than those included, or because their presentation by camera would add nothing to the whole piture. Several groups of these photographs have been exhibited at the City Club and at the Art Center, of New York. Many of the older prints have been hung in international photographic exhibitions here and abroad. More than half of the illustrations are quite new and were made within the past half-year. Much encouragement has come to me from friends who have admired the produ&s of my camera, I here express my [31 thanks to all of them, particularly to Thomas R. Kimball and H. Van Buren Magonigle, who have given me the supreme encouragement of favorably comparing my photographs with higher and less mechanical forms of pidorial presentation, and who have carefully criticized the material for this book. I am also especially grateful to Charles Harris Whitaker, Editor of the Journal of the American Institute of Architects, who was the first to accept my photographs for publication and who has since used many of them in the pages of the Journal. B.J. L. New York, February, 1927 [4] PRELUDE EEN from one of the taller buildings of Brooklyn Heights, Manhattan Island seems like a bit of fairye land shimmering in the bay. A group of great pearly towers in a setting of lower, more colorful buildings appears to be calmly floating in the water. Impertinent little tugs are chugging away. A mestic liner is glidng einto the harbor. Fortunately timed is a visit to the Heights just before sunset. Then the sun himself paints the back-drop for the gorgeous setting. The island melts away into the blue of night. Lights in the harbor, in the towers, on the boats, appear in ones, in twos and threes, and in larger groups, first rivaling then outdoing the evening stars. A fairy vision indeed! One which makes for the seeking of a better acquaintance with the island in the center of the scene. One which urges an early exploration of this magical Manhattan. Perhaps the secret of its magic may be discovered. / '<^- *> To each explorer, New York tells a various story, depending on mood and temperament. Rather than being elfin and fairylike, however, it is gigantic, it teems with life, and is full of [s] ceaseless noise. In the narrow canyons of some of its streets and on the broad pavements of others, within its larger parked spaces or in its tiny squares, in its aristocratic avenues and in the dingy alleys of its slums, various things may be found: the romance immortalized by 0. Henry; the gruelling commonplaceness of routine plodding, business and wealth of unbelievable magnitude; the poverty, filth and congestion which Dr. Jenkin Lloyd Jenkins of Chicago once called "an ulcer on the neck of civilization;" shops whose wares would have gladdened the heart of a Marie Antoinette; pushcarts dispensing everything from doubtful vegetables to shabby furs; buildings towering upward and upward and leaving from below, just a little patch of blue "which prisoners have called the sky;" ramshackle hovels remaining from pre-Victorian days; Gothic towers reminiscent of cathedral serenity, but hiding a bedlam of commerce within; old English inn fronts metamorphosed into modern shop facades; pages from Palladio and other old masters transcribed back into stone; essays in modern forms, more novel than beautiful. Above all may be found incessant growth and change. Those modern ziggurats, the buildings with the set-back fronts, are converting New York into a city of tall, stepped pyramids. It is difficult to keep pace with the rapid, continuous, sometimes fascinating, often distressing, changing. Hardly a week passes but a new tower is discovered against the sky where all was serene and horizontal only a short while ago. A particularly interesting shop, or eating place, or bit of architecture, has not been patronized or seen for a few weeks; a visit will disclose in its place a gaping excavation, or already a soaring, steel skeleton. So have passed many landmarks of Manhattan, and will pass. Famed Fifth Avenue is entirely different from [6] the street of only ten years ago and is changing week by week. The,,roaring forties", have lost their roar, block after block of set-back loft buildings and towers are replacing the brownstone fronts. Dr. Parkhurst's Church and Madison Square Garden, Stanford White's gems; McComb's stately St. John's Chapel, Richard Morris Hunt's Vanderbilt house all have gone in recent years, and some but yesterday. The Temple EmanuEl on Fifth Avenue by Eidlitz is going soon. As for rendezvous and eating places of pleasant memory and even fame, it is difficult to recall the many that have passed; Martin's, Mouqin's Rector's, Delmonico's, Hitchcock's,-all are gone. So marches progress, the destroyer. Manhattan of the future, the near future, will be as different from the Manhattan of today as the New York of today is different from the city of the Eighties. Then Trinity Church spire dominated what is now pointed out to ferry boat travelers as the "billion-dollar skyline," a stretch of shore with a solid wall of many-storied buildings, three times as high as the old spire, which is entirely hidden. It is easy to realize all this on any street corner in New York where the travail of metamorphosis reveals itself upon every side. Visions of the future which discount Jules Verne at his best can be conjured up with but little imagination. The conjuring is particularly easy after visiting the top of the Woolworth Building or the Metropolitan Tower and looking many miles to the north, up the Broadway which was a cowpath. The medley is tiring. Approximate peace may be found in the mid-city parks, bits of country continuously struggling for existence, bits of green slowly being stifled by the monster, [7] embracing city. There is magic in these parks. A few steps and the city seems lost and miles away. Beyond the mid-city, and then beyond Harlem, are the Heights where Washington fought the English, and where Indians camped and hunted long after the seething of commerce began around Bowling Green and the Battery to the south. Here the Hudson still flows by majestically with little indication of the bewildering barter at its mouth. Here also flows the Harlem; at night when the lights of its bridges and of nearby buildings are reflected in the water, there is confirmation of our first impression. Manhattan is a bit of fairyland. It is a magical islandl [8] NOTES ON THE PICTURES 0 NOTES ON THE PICTURES FRONTISPIECE The Magical Island Lower Manhattan as seen from Brooklyn Heights. "A group of great pearly towers in a setting of lower, more colorful buildings appears to be calmly floating in the water." I The Billion-Dollar Skyline A telescopic view into the mass of towers. 2 From a Ferryboat The westerly side of Manhattan seen from the middle of the Hudson River through a screen of mist and smoke. 3 Manhattan Bridge 4 Brooklyn Bridge The East River between Manhattan Island and Long Island is spanned by four great suspension bridges, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Williamsburgh, and Queensborough. Brooklyn Bridge is the oldest, and was one of the wonders of the world when built half a century ago. 5 Fishing Boats At the foot of Fulton Street, adjacent to the old Fulton Street Fish Market. 6 From the Battery Looking across the harbor to the Statue of Liberty. 7 From the Foot of Pine Street Many streets of lower Manhattan end at South Street among old and dingy warehouses. Through the dark canyons between these old buildings, the sunlit, newer towers shine all the more brilliantly. II] 8 Fraunces' Tavern Corner Broad and Pearl Streets. Fraunces' Tavern is one of the oldest buildings in Manhattan, and has many historical associations. Built in 17I9 by Etienne DeLancey as a residence, it descended as such to his son and grandson. In 1757 it became a storehouse and in 1762 it was purchased by Samuel Fraunces for use as a tavern. Fraunces sold the tavern in 1785 and the description published by him at the time helped to formulate the data for the restoration of I906, after the mutilation by periodic remodeling and damage by fire during the long period of neglect. The tavern was bought and restored by the Sons of the Revolution through the beneficence of Frederick Samuel Tallmadge. The first floor is still used as a restaurant. On the Broad Street side of the second floor is the Long Room where the Chamber of Commerce first met in 1768, where in 1783 Washington took formal farewell of his 44 officers, and where in 1883 was organized the Society of the Sons of the Revolution. On the third floor is a museum of Revolutionary relics. 9 Cunard Building One of the most impressive of the private commercial buildings. The sumptuously decorated booking room, running through the center of the lower three stories, is one of the show places of New York. Benjamin Wistar Morris, Architect; Carrere and Hastings, Consulting Architects. o1 Battery Park The Custom House on the right, the offices of the Standard Oil Company and the beginning of Broadway at Bowling Green in the center. 11 Ragged Survivors Battery Place at the foot of Washington Street. Except for makeshift repairs and remodeling, these buildings are typical of those on the whole Battery frontage a century ago. 12 Seven State Street The lone survivor of many fine houses which once lined a fashionable residence street; now a home for immigrant Irish girls. I3 Where Broadway Begins At Bowling Green, not only where Broadway begins, but where New York began. The site of Fort Amsterdam. [12] 1+ Trinity Church from Wall Street Wall Street begins on the east side of Broadway opposite Trinity, whose spire, now almost completely hidden by skyscrapers, dominated the skyline both from the east and from the west not so many years ago. Richard Upjohn, Architect. I 5 The Sub-Treasury, Wall Street Historically, one of the most interesting spots in New York. Here was the first city hall, the first national capitol, and the first state capitol. Here the first Congress met and Washington took the oath of office as first President. The present building dates back to I8I 2. i 6 Nassau Street at Noon Where Nassau Street begins at Wall, the very center of the financial district. Opposite Nassau, south from Wall Street, runs Broad Street. When the workers in the adjacent buildings come out at noon, vehicular traffic is abandoned, sidewalk curbs are ignored and the whole street, from wall to wall, is filled with a mass of moving people. At this crossing occurred the disastrous bomb explosion a few years ago. I 7 The Patch of Blue Thames Street and Trinity Place looking towards Broadway and up at the Equitable Building, leaving from below, a little patch of blue "which prisoners have called the sky." i8 Federal Reserve Bank Although covering a large square, it is so hemmed in by narrow streets that nowhere can more than a mere glimpse be had of this massive Florentine building. York 4- Sawyer, Architects. 19 North Washington Street Looking towards the new Telephone Building at Vesey Street, one of the most successful of the new set-back tower buildings. McKenzie, Voorhees 4. Gmelin, Architects. 20 Sun Patterns As if to atone for the ugliness of the elevated railroad, the sun paints these charming patterns on the pavement below. 2 1 Old and New Looking from Broadway across St. Paul's churchyard towards the new Telephone Building. [ I3] 22 St. Paul's Churchyard One of the few places where old New Yorkers sleep peacefully, unmindful of the turmoil about them, and where the present generation may find a few moments of rest a step away from the hurrying crowds. 23 St. Paul's Looking down Park Row towards St. Paul's, the oldest church structure in Manhattan. Designed by McBean in I764. 24 Woolworth Building from Across Broadway The only way many skyscrapers can be seen is by throwing the head back and looking up and up. 25 Through the Trees, City Hall Park The top of the Woolworth Building seen through the trees of City Hall Park. 26 Woolworth Building at Sunset With the sunlit western sky behind it, the Woolworth Building really becomes a "cathedral of commerce." Cass Gilbert, Architect. 27 The Old City Hall The business offices of the city are nearly all housed in the new Municipal Building; the Mayor's offices and reception room are in the old City Hall. When weather permits, distinguished guests are received by the Mayor on the steps of the entrance portico. The building, considered one of the most beautiful in the United States, was designed by John McComb, Jr., in 1803. 28 Chambers Street and Municipal Building 29 The Arch Over Chambers Street, Municipal Building 30 Fore-Court, Municipal Building The Municipal Building spans Chambers Street and closes the vista in a most interesting way. The great Roman arch over the street screens the fore-court which ties the two parts of the building on either side of Chambers Street into one group. McKim, Mead S White, Architects. 3 Columns Between the columns of the Municipal Building fore-court is seen the Woolworth tower, the old City Hall apparently nestling at its base. I4] 32 Lower Broadway Looking south towards the Woolworth Building about a mile away. 33 Down Center Street Towards the Municipal Building whose top almost disappears in the haze and mist. Clouds of steam in the frosty air add to the charm of the graceful silhouette. 34 A Shop of Little Italy Adjacent to Chinatown on one side and the old East Side ghetto on the other, lies Little Italy. Mulberry Street has long been the backbone of this, the most extensive Italian colony in New York. This little shop, typical of many, is on Hester Street just of Mulberry. 35 Entering Chinatown Doyers Street just of the Bowery. 36 Mott Street 37 Pell Street Chinatown is not very extensive, just a few blocks of Mott Street with, Pell and crooked little Doyers Streets between Mott and the Bowery. In these days of the Chinese Republic, the queue has disappeared and native costume has become rare. Despite the struggle with building laws and police regulations prohibiting many things dear to the Chinese heart, like frail balconies, paper lanterns, and banners, the little shops have a distinct Oriental flavor, and Pell and Doyers and Mott Streets could be nowhere else but in Chinatown. 38 A Brass Shop, Allen Street Russian brass workers have settled for many years in Allen Street, whence the gift shops of America are supplied. In recent years with the rising younger generations have come cash registers, telephones and typewriters, prices have gone up and atmosphere has to a great extent been dispelled. 39 The East Side Hester Street looking east to its junction with Division Street. At the junction is William H. Seward Park, one of the play grounds which have let some light and air into the congested East Side. [ I ] 40 Pickles and Clothes Corner of Ludlow Street and Hester. Probably a greater variety of things may be bought from the push carts and stands near this corner than in a large department store. 4 I Push Carts The ghetto of the East Side of New York has lost some of its picturesqueness, but much still remains. Other ghettoes have sprung up in the Brownsville district of Brooklyn, and between Harlem and the Bronx, but the old lower East Side remains the melting pot of America. In the midst of the sweat shops and push carts are up-to-date schools and libraries. The East Side is just a temporary stopping place and Americanization is an ever continuing process. There are shops, of course, modern and even smart, in Grand Street, East Broadway and Delancey, but the push cart is the specialty shop of the East Side. The overhead is small, and with little capital the immigrant can become a curb-side merchant. Anything that is eaten, worn or otherwise used by the heterogeneous population of the East Side may be bought from a push cart. 42 Weehawken Street A little known, short street back of West Street at Christopher in Greenwich Pillage. The little house with the outside stairs is probably one of the oldest in Manhattan and, it is said, was once used as a waiting room and station for the coaches connecting with the Harlem River Railroad. 43 A Greenwich Village Courtyard Off Grove Street just west of Bedford; typical of several in various parts of the Pillage. 44 Minetta Street 45 Macdougal Alley When artists, some real and some alleged, discovered and took possession of old Greenwich Pillage a few years ago, the renaissance became apparent in various ways: quiet, late Colonial houses which had fallen into decay were saved and restored; dull, drab, old buildings were brightened with colors usually found only on a painter's palette; stables were cleaned, provided with gayly colored furnishings, and turned into restaurants and night clubs; other stables, such as those in Macdougal Alley, were made into charming studio apartments; rear yards were consolidated into quaint little courts and brightly colored blinds and porches were added to the old house walls. Greenwich Pillage today ofers everything from a real art colony to an artificial and bizarre Bohemia for the benefit of tourists. [i6] 46 Washington Square Once the potters' field, then a common, now one of the most charming squares of Manhattan, the locale of many a story of New York. Fifth Avenue begins at its northerly side. West of it lies Greenwich Village. 47 Washington Arch Erected during the early Nineties in Washington Square to replace the temporary arch commemorating the Washington inauguration centennial in I889. Stanford White, Architect. 48 Washington Square North A row of fine old houses, many still occupied by families and descendants of the original owners. These houses give Washington Square an atmosphere unique in America. 49 The Metropolitan Tower One of the earliest of New York's ofice building towers. It is still one of the tallest, and a distinctive note in the skyline. A great white sentinel, it stands guard over Madison Square. N. LeBrun 4 Sons, Architects. 50 Madison Square Diana's tower is gone now, but the square is still the place where the atmosphere of New York of twenty-five years ago can best be felt. 51 Diana's Tower The tower of old Madison Square Garden from the top of which Augustus St. Gaudens' Diana aimed her arrow for many a year. It was a sad day about two years ago when Diana was lowered and her tower torn down. It is to be rebuilt on the campus of New York University near the Hall of Fame on the east bank of the Harlem. McKim, Mead 4- White, Architects. 52 Gramercy Park Perhaps the first restricted real estate development in New York. In X831, Samuel Ruggles sold the surrounding lots to a carefully chosen group of people, with the restriction that the central area be maintained forever as a private park for the exclusive use of the surrounding property owners. So it has remained to this day despite legal battles with the city. Only those of Gramercy Park have the key to the formidable gates in the tall fence around it. Many distinguished New Yorkers have lived in and near I7] Gramercy Park. On the south side stands the house of Samuel J. Tilden, now the National Arts Club; hard by it is the former home of Edwin Booth who donated his house to the Players' Club, and whose statue as Hamlet now stands within the park enclosure. Robert Ingersoll's home stood on the north side. Peter Cooper lived a block or two away; his son, Edward, and son-in-law, Abram Hewitt, lived in houses that are still standing and occupied by their descendants. Horace Greeley lived in Nineteenth Street nearby. Theodore Roosevelt was born in Twentieth Street, a block west of the park. 53 The Cabby One of the few survivors of a vanishing tribe. The picturesque hansom cab and cabby are becoming a rare sight indeed. 54 Pennsylvania Station, Seventh Avenue 55 Pennsylvania Station, Thirty-First Street 56 Pennsylvania Station, Great Hall 57 Pennsylvania Station, Cabway A Roman colonnade of gigantic scale and simple grandeur forms the Seventh Avenue facade. The Great Hall is probably the most impressive and beautiful roofed-over space in America. The sun pouring in through the clearstory windows makes of this vast room a most inspiring vestibule, bespeaking friendly welcome or adieu to the metropolis. The mural maps are by Jules Guerin. The cabway is another place for the sun to paint his glorious patterns. McKim, Mead 4 White, Architects. 58 Rear of Metropolitan Opera House A most interesting facade of a building whose three other sides are quite commonplace and ugly. 59 Towards Times Square The Times Building gave the square its name and for many years the tower dominated the whole section. Its throne has just been usurped by the new Paramount Building. Within a half-mile radius of Times Square are nearly one hundred theatres, and more are being built. 60 Sixth Avenue Looking south towards Forty-second Street. Haze, clouds and towers make a poetic background for a prosaic scene. [ 8s] 61 A New Tower Looking north on Sixth Avenue from Forty-sixth Street. "Hardly a week passes but a new tower is discovered against the sky where all was serene and horizontal only a short while ago." 62 Ziggurats The temples of Babylon were terraced pyramids called ziggurats, and the groups of set-back loft buildings now being built in all parts of New York are strongly reminiscent of their form. The setting back of the upper stories for the purpose of conserving light and air for the lower ones, is done in conformity with a regulation limiting the height of buildings to a multiple of the width of the street, or space, between them. If this multiple is, for instance, one and one —half and the street is eighty feet wide, then the walls at the street line may rise to a height of one hundred twenty feet. If at this height the walls are set back ten feet, the total space between buildings is thereby increased to one hundred feet and the walls may go up an additional thirty feet, or a total of one hundred fifty feet above the ground level, and so on, until the set-backs have reduced the area of the building to a prescribed fraction of the area of the site, which reduced area may be carried to an unlimited height. At each set-back level a prescribed percentage of frontage may be carried up at the line of the wall immediately below. Mere following of the regulations results in picturesqueness and relief from the cubical monotony of early tall buildings. The architectural possibilities of thoughtful design on the set-back principle are full of promise, and in a few cases have been beautifully demonstrated. 63 The Great Lantern, Bryant Park When the American Radiator Building with its black shaft and gilded top is illuminated, it looks like a stone garden lantern of the Orient, but of unheard-of, gigantic size. Raymond Hood, Architect. 64 Bryant Park 65 Fountain, Bryant Park 66 West from Bryant Park Bryant Park is a little garden spot overshadowed by towers, and adjacent to one of the busiest street intersections in the world, Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street. The Fifth Avenue frontage is occupied by the Public Library. The statue is of Dr. Simms, the eminent surgeon. The fountain was designed by Charles A. Platt, Architect. [19] 67 The Library-Bryant Park Facade 68 The Library The Bryant Park facade, with its narrow stack-room windows and the large arched openings of the upper story expressing the general reading room within, is a particularly brilliant architectural composition. The entrance plaza off Fifth Avenue is to New York what the Place de l'Opera is to Paris-everyone who lives in New York, or visits it, may be met at or on this plaza if one waits long enough. Carrere 4- Hastings, Architects. 69 Columbus Day-i926 Holiday flags and holiday crowds and sunlight make Fifth Avenue one of the most fascinating and inspiring of streets. 70 Madison Avenue Until recently an aristocratic residence street, Madison Avenue is fast changing to business. The Metropolitan Tower in the distance marks the beginning of the Avenue. 7 I The Ever-Changing Skyline Looking over Murray Hill. Fashionable Murray Hill is bravely fighting to maintain its identity. Only a few years ago no tall building, except the Metropolitan Tower in the distance, could be seen from this point, but now a new pyramid pierces the sky every few weeks. 72 A Cubical Vista A telescopic view into the tops of the skyscrapers from Grand Central Terminal to Times Square. The Times Building tower is in the distance in the center. 73 An East River Power House The banks of the East River are lined with power and manufacturing plants. This point is between Fortieth and Forty-first Streets. 74 Over the Roofs Towards the East River in the Upper Forties. Great changes are immi. nent here. Large, fashionable apartment houses are planned for or being built on much of the East River frontage on the Manhattan side. [ 20 ] 75 No&urne Winter evening just after the sun has set and the lights have appeared in the towers. Many an office window provides such a view as this. 76 Eastern Edge of Manhattan Towards the East River and Long Island City. The Commodore Hotel at the extreme left, Queensborough Bridge in the distance. The two intermediate piers of this bridge with the span between are over Blackwell's Island. 77 Pershing Square Park Avenue towards the Grand Central Terminal at Forty-second Street, Belmont Hotel at the left. A square in name only. 78 Grand Central Terminal Below ground, two track levels and train yards, long street-like passages lined with varied shops and connecting with three principal hotels and three subway transit systems, occupy much more area than the two squares covered by the building above ground. Built over and around the old terminal on the same site without serious accident or serious disturbance of train schedules. Warren 4' Wetmore and Reed 4 Stem, Architects. 79 Temple Emanu-El, Fifth Avenue An interesting example of older New York architecture, soon to be torn down. Leopold Eidlitz, Architect. 80 A Fifth Avenue Shop One of the finest shop fronts on the Avenue and in New York. Carrere, Hastings, Architects. 81 St. Patrick's A bit of the old world on the Avenue. The cathedral, despite its size and spacious site, is gradually being hidden by commercial buildings, but still can be seen to advantage from several points. Renwick 4, Sands, Archi. tects. 82 The Portal to St. Thomas' Designed to hold its own with the buildings which surround it. The interior of St. Thomas' with its glorious reredos is most impressive. Cram, Goodhue 4, Ferguson, Architects. [21] 83 University Club Considered one of the finest examples of the Classic Revival in architecture, done in modern times. McKim, Mead 4 White, Architects. 84 Armistice Day 1926 One cannot think of Fifth Avenue on a holiday without flags, and nowhere do flags look better or more decorative. 85 Duveen's Gallery, Fifth Avenue One of the several notable galleries devoted to the sale of objets-d'art on the Avenue. Horace Trumbauer, Architect. 86 270 Park Avenue Looking into the courtyard of a typical apartment building of the Park Avenue district. Warren f4 Wetmore, Architects. 87 Upper Park Avenue Park Avenue has become the most fashionable residential apartment street in New York. 88 Racquet and Tennis Club A virile building which more than holds its own among the tall apartments in Park Avenue. McKim, Mead 4 White, Architects. 89 Central Park Just off Fifth Avenue. "A few steps and the city seems lost and miles away." 90 The Obelisk, Central Park A real Egyptian obelisk of antiquity and considerable historic interest, presented to this country by the Khedive. 9I The Guild Theatre One of the newest and most interesting of the many theatres in New York. C. Howard Crane, Kenneth Franzheim, and Charles H. Bettis, Associated Architects. 92 Mecca Temple A great stone wall, a big splash of color in faience, all quite unusual for a New York Street. H. P. Knowles, Architect. [22] 93 Riverside Park Just off busy Riverside Drive. The Soldiers and Sailors Monument at the right. 94 St. John the Divine The apse of the cathedral on Morningside Heights as originally designed by Heins 4- LaFarge. The building is now being completed from designs by Ralph Adams Cram. 95 Columbia University Library One of the noblest buildings in America. The crowning feature of the magnificent group on Columbia Campus. McKim, Mead 4 White, Architects. 96 City College Tower The central feature of a crescent group built on the brow of a rocky hill and forming the main group of the College of the City of New York, popularly called City College. Geo. B. Post 4. Sons, Architects. 97 High Bridge A sturdy and graceful stone aqueduct worthy of the Romans. Now being remodeled by the removal of several piers and arches, to provide a better channel in the Harlem River. 98 The Arch One of the arches of High Bridge. 99 Harlem River Harlem River makes an island of Manhattan by separating its northern edge from the mainland. High Bridge appears in the middle distance and Harlem is seen beyond it in the far distance. 100 Nod&urne, High Bridge 101 Nodturne, Upper Harlem "Confirmation of our first impression. Manhattan is a bit of fairyland. It is a magical islandl" 102 Under Washington Bridge Houseboats sheltered by the great arch, parks all about-what matters the maddening rush of Manhattan! [23] * *, 103 Winter, Washington Heights The snow is left for a day or two on Fort Washington Avenue, the traffic is not so heavy, and so even in the city we may sometimes sense the poetry and not merely the hardships of winter. o04 Fort Washington Park Just a few hundred feet from solid rows of tenements, mad street traffic and roar, is this spot of peaceful, sylvan beauty. 105 The Hudson, Fort Washington Park Still much the same as when Hudson visited it. Io6 Fort Washington Point Near this point, from which Washington crossed many times to Fort Lee on the New Jersey side, work will soon begin on a gigantic suspension bridge to span the Hudson. 107 The Majestic Hudson "The Hudson still flows by majestically with little indication of the bewildering barter at its mouth." 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VII N ~~;u~;~~;S'~ ( `,: *b.g. i ~~.s. ~:~~":;$.`Y 4(\* 1`:di`z~., ~~ " uP a~. ~w ~: ch r t I r ^- *' s v 4 - —. -~;:. -. - - - - C~-~ - - - — A- At - A< - 21 OLD AND NEW 0* m IC7/ 1:"71 ~', el::, t'i ar~wP". R.: t n '~."` ' g. It I. ~ ' " "'.. ~:1 ~a: 4 4 a ni Qd X ^*' ~e -p ~- Jfll ( i4iirb-i j, bs$s+e'$~s8~Ls;sa'JlllbQ~ -" "1 '" ." PC. sr g 4' ' 1 ;qgEp:l&:-,"IY*~PI Iiisl L-l I i 9 war ~g~; ~~~' ^.-A I I I I~ 23 ST. PAUL'S z7 I> r 'IV <-> 66 WEST FROM BRYANT PARK C) 67 THE LIBRARY-BRYANT PARK FACADE I l~ z toF N} - iA- ) (* ~. 68 THE LIBRARY .,0 C'p 69 COLUMBUS DAY-1926 X9 'So (LI) r. l-. J~ II 0\ 71 THE EVER-CHANGING SKYLINE Alp. 72 A CUBICAL VISTA 'C\ \-^0 y 73 AN EAST RIVER POWER HOUSE If C\@\ I Ii gd-009 7HI H.7/10, -"Aw " All 11 I II t S I t'N\ 75 NOCTURNE I ~, I "k\ I 76 EASTERN EDGE OF MANHATTAN K IA C -YO 11 :z C) LI ct.~ I 0~;~ ~:a.- ~;~~:. ~~ ~ i... ~~ ~~~ s~ 33oG I C) 78 GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL 81 ST. PATRICK'S (Ac i . - " I I~"' i -1 C0 k 0 Ek ~^Z 5z iI c~ 00 Af~ Y~_ I ~ _ II I~ I Ifi`` r..`"'C ...' (.D).pi."d r *2_: rjiCC ~1 L i 83 UNIVERSITY CLUB I I I 84 ARMISTICE DAY 1926 C '.L1BXlld 'ras71:*~*`* : ': P " ~"" ~ ~-'~ ~p* OI ~,'.2..\ `~:;il -'.J." ~).:~~;~~~ ~~~*~ ~~ 4~;...a.d 85 DUVEEN'S GALLERY, FIFT'Hf AVENUE Al' 86 270 PARK AVENUE Cr 87 UPPER PARK AVENUE 4\ y *^'^, U ik", 88 RACQUET AND TENNIS CLUB (so 89 CENTRAL PARK k t 'K I ip — of. 'Is 1-1 "1T--yylg. '=-: P'V-" '"~':Prp;aa?.4*L ~.,4~"' '~~:''.. C'i *~... i C -Ca. (i.I-Ki .r' '~~ p, ~e ~r,,~w~~:; bfJ* ~',Su: -~ ~- f: 9-r1; -;I ~~~.Q.`r` SJl ~'* *: 1;3AP ~- I" r~; ~~~~. ~. i~: ' ( 's `P ''C `I, L' ~~ C, ~ P;.:~ ~~~ ~ ~ ~~.; r. ~I ) S;. ^ ~ ' * ' ~ ~:: ~:,~.. iillr~rr C-"fE Irtf ? ~I'L~~: (..: ~~z C~* 90 THE OBELISK, CENTRAL PARK 62> \ -70I 91 THE GUILD THEATRE * % 0, * 404"A I 92 MECCA TEMPLE .4. 93 RIVERSIDE PARK T 94 ST. JOHN THE DIVINE S. '1 \. I I — 3C V11 -~ ~ Cl '-;.-~~~ k~l,, ", 95 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY — t. \ - r,), j. _l; I Zj 96 CITY COLLEGE TOWER C r~ i~.;AC'r 97 HIGH BRIDGE 1o 98 THE ARCH -: - ' - MI/AIX IN-7IVII 66 . - f `~-: r. k' I. li~ 1 ~~,1~ ( '`.* " ~~ ".:.~: 100 NOCTURNE, HIGH BRIDGE L -S. 67C>c 101 NOCTURNE, UPPER HARLEM VP sc~ 102 UNDER WASHINGTON BRIDGE (:Z a c% IS'? 103 WI'INTER, WASHINGTON HEIGHTS 'S -' 104 FORT WASHINGTON PARK 14,; kI 1\- C C 4 - 105 THE HUDSON, FORT WASHINGTON PARK /< ) ZiaQ ^ M 1 Sy~ 106 FORT WASHINGTON POINT ~' a Ir 107 THE MAJESTIC HUDSON it 4\ DATE DUE DEC 1 4 1999 JAN 0 7 2002 DO NOT REMOVE OR I MUTILATE CARD