Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library 
 Gift of Seymour B. Durst Old York. Library 
 
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NEW YORK 
 
 THE GREATEST CITY. 
 
 NEW YORK, the first city in America and the second largest in the world is truly a city of 
 wonders. Three hundred years ago used as a camping ground by the American Indians, 
 Manhattan Island was discovered by Henry Hudson in 1609, and the first permanent 
 settlement was established by the Dutch in 1624, and named New Amsterdam. In 1626 the 
 entire Island of Manhattan was purchased from the Indians for beads and trinkets valued at 
 $24.00. The English took possession in 1664 and named it New York. 
 
 In 1898 Greater New York was formed by the consolidation of Manhattan, Brooklyn, 
 Bronx, Queensboro and Richmond and the total population is now about 7,000.000. The 
 Borough of Manhattan which was the city proper before the consolidation contains a population 
 of 2 ]/ 2 million, which are crowded into a narrow space about 13 miles long and two miles 
 wide, containing only about 1 9 square miles. The value of the land is now estimated at 
 $4,020,000,000, value of realty improvements $6,075,000,000, an average of $432,000 per 
 acre. Land in the down town district is worth from $300 to $600 per square foot. 
 
 City Hall Park in 1813. 
 
 City Hall Park Today. 
 
 New York today is a City of amazing achievements and boundless enterprise, like none 
 other on the entire globe. It contains so many of the world's greatest things that only a few 
 of them can be mentioned in this short article. In area New York is the largest city in the 
 world, in population it is exceeded only by one. Here are located the world's largest office 
 buildings, one of them rising to a height of 795 feet, the total cost exceeding $25,000,000, 
 involving unheard of engineering problems. Hotels, some of them 25 stories in height and 
 containing 2.000 or more rooms, are rivalled only by the mammoth ocean liners that enter New 
 York Harbor daily. Here is the world's largest University, the largest and most attractive 
 Theatres, the world's greatest bridges and a system of parks that is not equalled in either 
 Europe or America. Broadway, extending from the Battery to Yonkers traverses the Greatest 
 Business center in the world and Riverside Drive and Upper Fifth Avenue are the grandest of 
 residential avenues, along which are located superb mansions and the most luxurious residences 
 in the world. The World has no other center that can compare with New York, the 
 Greatest City. 
 
F. W. WOOLWORTH CO.. NEW YORK. 
 
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