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 Copyright, H. & A. Shishko, N. Y. 
 
 New York's First Inhabitant Gazing at the Wonders of the New World. 
 
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The statue of Liberty stands upon Bedloe's Island. 1% miles southwest from the Battery. It was designed by 
 August Bartholdi. and presented bv the French in lt>64. It is 151 teet high, standing upon a pedestal loo leel, 
 and symbolizes Liberty Enlightening" the World. The statue weighs 450,000 lbs., or 225 tons. Forty persons can 
 stand comfortably In the head, and the torch will h*ld 12 people. 
 
View of Standard Oil Building and lower Broadway, looking north. 
 
Hell Gate Bridge, longest steel arch in the world. 1.000 feet long. 220 feet high, SO.000 tons in weight. It carries 
 four tracks of connecting railway which receives Penn. R. R. freight cars from floats at Bay Ridge to N. Y. & N. H. 
 Railroad. Cost $1-1,000,000. Copyright. American Studio, X. Y. 
 
 Quecnsboro Bridge oTer East River and Blackwells Island from 50th Street, Manhattan, to Long Island Ci 
 Cost $25,000,000. 7,636 feet long; begun in 1901, opened March 30, 1909. Copyright. American Studio, N. Y. 
 
Lower Now York and East Kiver. A view taken from an airplane, showing tbe financial district and, in the fore- 
 ground, the chemical and leather district; also the home of many of the largest import and export houses in the 
 city. The small piers along this end of Manhattan are principally used for coastwise trade. 
 
 Lower Manhattan and Hudson River. An airplane view of Nev\ York's skyscrapers as contrasted to the old type of 
 business construction. Most prominent, from left to right, are the Hankers Trust Bldg., the Ecjnitable Bldg., the 
 Singer Tower, the Telephone and Telegraph Bldg., tbe Liberty Tower and Woolworth Bldg. 
 
statue of Liberty at Night. By moonlight the Statue of Liberty is more imposing than ever. The blazing 
 torch can be seen many miles away. 
 
 U. S. Custom House. Occupying a square block at the foot of Broadway, facing Bowling Green. It is a magnificent 
 Main granite structure, seven stories high, and cost ?4,500.000. It occupies the site on which in 1<J?G Fort Amsterdam 
 was erected. Copyright, Irving Underbill, N. Y. 
 
Whitehall Buildings, on Battery Place, between West and Washington Streets, the largest single office building in 
 the world. The original building, 20 stories, 254 feet high, was finished in 1903 at a cost of $1,000,000; the new 
 addition of 32 stories, 416 feet high, was finished in 1911, and cost ?4, 600,000. The building covers 21 city lots. 
 Rome of the Weather Bureau and of the IJilJipnaires' Club- 
 
Brmdway, Downtown. Broadway runs northward from the Battery as far as the city limits. In fact, it is a part 
 of the old Albany Post Road, which is 150 miles long. The section shown here is the financial district, north from 
 Thames Street, with the U. S. Realty and American Exchange Buildings in the foreground. Singer Building, 612 
 feet above street level, and City Investing Building adjoining it, Woolworth Building seven blocks away, and 
 Municipal Building projecting in the district from behind the Park Row Building, which was at one time the 
 tallest building in the world. Copyright, 1913, Irving Underbill, N, Y. 
 
Equitable Building, built on the site of the Old Equitable Building, which was destroyed by fire on January 
 9, 1912. It is a 38-story office building, 537.6 feet above the street level, covering an entire square block, 
 with a floor area of nearly 45 acres. It is a city of 15,000 workers. The building and land cost .$29,000,000. 
 
 Copyright, 1913, by the Equitable Building Corporation, N. Y. 
 
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 Adams' Building, at 61 Broadway, a 32-story office 
 building. This building contains the executive offices 
 of the Adams Express Company and has room for a 
 thousand or more offices. 
 
 Singer Building, at Broadway and Liberty Street. 49 
 stories, G12 feet high above the sidewalk. 724 feet from 
 basement floor to the top of flagstaff. 9y 2 acres floor 
 space; total weight, over 18,000 tons. Supported upon 
 36 caissons of solid concrete, sunk 92 feet below the curb. 
 
Wall Street derived its name from the wall built by Pe ?r Stuyvesant in 1(!50 to defend New Amsterdam at this 
 point. Tlie wall outlived its usefulness ai d disappeared 2JU years ago. Wall Street is now the loreujosi tmaucinl 
 centre of the world, and the most powerful banks and bankers have their offices there. 
 
Liberty Tower. At the northwest corner of Liberty 
 and Nassau Streets. A 31-story building, on plot 
 57.9 by S2.1 feet. Largest office area compared to 
 the small plot it occupies. 
 
 Bankers Trust Company Building:. Northwest corner Wall 
 and Nassau Streets. Built in 1911 on the site of the old 
 Oillender Building: 39 stories, 540 feet high. Adjoining 
 It is the Hanovpr Bank Building. 
 
 Copyright, 1912, Irving Underbill, X. T. 
 
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 City Investing Building. Running from Broadway to Church Street. A 34-story office building covering a 
 plot 27,000 square feet, 4 SO feet high. Cost of building and laud exceeds $10 000,000. Can accommodate 
 (1,000 tenants. Copyright, Irviug Underbill, N. V. 
 
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 The Hudson Terminal Buildings, on Church Street, between Ccrtlandt and Fulti :/ Struets, pre twin structures, and 
 together form the largest office building in the world. The weight is estimated at 200,000 tons, resting on a 
 cofferdam 400 x 178 feet, 75 to 98 feet deep. 22 stories, 37o feet high, and lias office roo'JO for 20.000 people. 
 
Woolworth Building, Broadwav from Barclay Street to Park Place. Tallest office building in the world; 55 
 stories; 793% feet high; cost." including site. $14,000,000: riot, 152 s 197 feet. Foundation consists of caissons 
 19 feet in diameter sunk 110 to 130 feet. The 24th floor contains the executive offices of the F. W. Woolworth 
 Co., largrgt I/ and 10-cent syndicate in the world, operating over 700 stores. Copyright, 1916, American Studio, N. T. 
 
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 The New Municipal Building, on Park Row, facing City Hall Park, completed in 191". It contains offices for the 
 various city departments, which are now paying a rental of over half a million dollars yearly. It is a 34-story 
 structure, 539 feet above the sidewalk. The foundation, the most difficult ever attempted, is 130 feet deep, of 
 which 90 feet is below the water level. The floor area Is 600.000 square feet. Total cost. $12,000,000. 
 
 Copyright. 1912, by Irving Underbill. New York. 
 
A Typical View of Loner New York, showing historical St. Paul's Chapel, the Woolworth and Municipal Buildings, 
 the old Post Office at the intersection of Broadway and Park Row and at the top right, the Park Row and 
 Saint Paul Buildings. 
 
The Bowery, running from Chatham to Cooper Squares; along here were located the "bouweries" or country seats 
 of the wealthy; now a strictly business thoroughfare. 
 
Columbus Circle, at the intersection of Broadwav and Eighth Avenue, at 59th Street. Here is the main grate to Central ParL, 
 Havana Harbor. In the centre of the Circle is an imposing monument of the great discoverer of America, which was ereelii 
 
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 It stands at the intersection of Broadway and Fif.tli 
 Avenue, between 22ud and 2.'ird Streets. It is the 
 first great steel frame structure ever attempted; 30(1 
 feet high : 120.000 ennsrp feet floor space. Cost, 
 iu'luding site. *4.000.000. 
 
 Times Building. Seat of the New York Times, the 
 famous morning paper, with over 200.000 circulation. 
 It is situated on 42nd Street and Broadway, in the 
 heart of the theatre and hotel district. It is a 
 25-story structure, 477 feet high from basement to 
 top of tower. 
 
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 Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, at 1 Madison 
 Avenue. Occupies entire block to Fourth Avenue, 
 between 23rd and 24th Streets. Tower, 52 stories, 
 700 feet high, has been added to the main building 
 in 1910, Copyright, Irving Underhill, N. Y. 
 
 Bush Terminal Sales Building on 42nd Street, near Broad- 
 way. A magnificent 30-story structure, specially designed 
 for the convenience of Buyers visiting New York. It 
 holds permanent displays of merchandise from leading 
 American and Foreign Manufacturers and is the home of 
 the Buyers' Club. 
 
Broadway, North of 33rd Street, where Broadway and Sixth Avenue cross each other: to the left are Gimbels, 
 
 Saks and Macy's Department Stores; at the right the Hotel McAlpin; the Herald and Times Building can be seen 
 in the distance. 
 
 Pennsylvania Railroad Station. A gigantic marble building covering the blocks bounded by 31st and 33rd Streets, 
 and 7th and 9th Avenues. Site cost, $8,000,000; total cost, $50,000,000 A series of tunnels under the Hudson River 
 bring all fra}j)S froin flip West, while tunnels under the East River connect with the Long Island chain of railroads. 
 
The Hippodrome, with a capacity of G.700 seats, is the largest playhouse in New York. It stands on Sixth Avenue, 
 between 43rd and 44th Streets. 
 
 Grand Central Terminal covers C9.8 acres, fating East 42nd Street, from Vanderbilt Avenue to Lexington Avenue, is 
 the largest and most costly Railroad Station In the world. It has 31 miles of tracks tor handling 200 trains and 
 70,000 passengers each hour. There are 42 tracks on the 42nd Street level, and 25 tracks for suburban trains in 
 concourse. 25 feet below the street. 
 
of Fifth Avenue, looking north from 34th Street, at the busiest time of day. 
 
Saks New Department Store, 49th and 50th Streets and 5th Avenue, and St. Patrick's Cathedral. 
 
Tillies Square. A view north of 43rd Street, where Broadway crosses Seventh Avenue. Great centre of activity. 
 The most important hotels and theatres in the city are within a radius of a few hundred yards. 
 
 Public Library, at Fifth Avenue from 40th to 42nd Streets, occupies the site of the old Proton Reservoir. It was 
 built at a cost of $9,000,000. The corner-stone was laid November 10, 1002, and the building was opened to the 
 public May 23, 1911. It contains over 1,500,000 books, with room for 1,000,000 more. Copyright, American Studio, N. Y. 
 
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 Hotel Pennsylvania, at 38rd Street and Seventh Avenue, opposite the Pennsylvania Railroad depot, with which it is 
 connected by an underground passageway. The first section on Seventh Avenue, 20 stories high, contains 1,000 
 bedrooms with bath and shower. Exceptionally favored for sunshine and air. 
 
 Hotel Astor. On Broadway, between 44tb and 45th Streets; built in 1904 and enlarged in 1909: total cost to date 
 $10,000,000 ; 900 suites wit* private bath; banquet hall seats 1,200. Copyright, 1909, I. Underbill, New York. 
 
Belmont Hotel, on Park Avenue, between 41st and 
 42ud Streets. 292 feet high; 258,400 square feet of 
 door area. Copyright, 1906, I. Underbill, N. Y. 
 
 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, on Fifth Avenue, between 
 33rd and 34th Streets. 314 feet high; 1,400 rooms; 
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 Biltmore, on Madison Avenue, between 43rd and 44th Streets. It is a part of the Grand Central Terminal 
 with which it is directly connected under the ground. It is a huge 20-story building, the last word in 
 l hotel construction. 1,000 rooms. 
 
Trinity Church, at Broadway, facing Wall Street. 
 Established 1697: built 1S46. Richest church society 
 in America. Income, $775,000 a year. 
 
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 Madison Square Garden, Madison to Fourth Avenues, 
 between 26th and 27th Streets. Largest amphitheatre 
 in America. Seating capacity, 12,000. 
 
 Saint Paul's Chapel, at Broadway and Fulton Street. 
 Erected 1766: oldest church building in New York. 
 Yard extended, then, as far as the North River. 
 
 Grace Church. Protestant Episcopalian, at Broadway 
 and Ninth Street. Built 1845, of white limestone 
 with marble spire. James Ren wick, architect. 
 
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St. Patrick's Cathedral, on Fifth Avenue from 50th to olst Streets. Largest and most beautiful church in America. 
 Built in 1858, it is one of the finest examples of Gothic Architecture in this country. Seating capacity, 2,500. Cost 
 of land and building about J3.000.000. Under floor of sanctuary, near the altar, is a crypt for the entombing of 
 the Archbishops of New York. 
 
The Litle Church Around the Corner, located on 29th Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues. Patronized 
 specially by members of the theatrical profession. Many prominent actors have been buried there, among them 
 Lester Wallack and Edwin Booth. The location is easily accessible to visiting couples who come to New York to wed. 
 
 Cathedral of St. John the Divine. At 111th Street, near Morningside Park. The most important Protestant Episco- 
 palian Church in America. Construction begun 1892, consecrated April 19, 1911. Cost $3,500,000; the white building 
 in the background is St. Luke's Hospital. 
 
Brooklyn Tunnel, an extension of the Rapid Transit System connecting with the Brooklyn Subway. Open for traffic 
 January 9, 1909. Two cast-iron tubes U.7S4 feet long with an inside diameter of lo feet 6 inches, Ine lowest point 
 reached bv the tunnel is 94 feet below the river bed- <"..,st. SlO.0tiO.0G0, 
 
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 .Maine Monument, at the 59th Street entrance to Central Park; erected in 1913, by private subscription, in memory 
 of the valiant seamen who perished in the explosion of the Maine in Havana Harbor. It is made entirely of white 
 ma'-ble. Height of monument is 59 feet. Total cost, $17,000. Copyright, 1913, Irvine Underbill, Xew York. 
 
 Blvertiide I>rive and Hudson River. Riverside Drive begins at 72nd Street and extends along the slopes ami bluffs 
 of the Hudson River for over three miles to 160th Street. All along the Drive is a succession of high-class residences, 
 
Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. At Riverside Drive and SOtli Street, dedicated 190:2. by the city, to the memory 
 of those who lost their lives in t he Civil War. Cost, $250,000: It is a pure white marble building, 90 feet high. 
 Twelve Corinthian columns, 35 feet high, surround it. Copyright, Irving Underbill, N. V. 
 
 Washington Arch where Fifth Avenue starts, erected by popular subscription to commemorate the Centennial of the 
 inauguration of our first President. The arch was completed in 1893 at a cost of $250,000. 
 
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Obelisk, Central Park. This is a 'J(K) ton monolith brought from Egypt in 1880 and said to be 34UO years oiu. It, 
 therefore, is a great curiosity, not only on account of its age, but also because of the Egyptian hieroglyphics written 
 therecn. 
 
 General View of Central Park. From 59th to 110th Streets, between Fifth and Eighth Avenues. It covers 843 acres 
 In all. 185 acres consist of lakes and reservoirs, 400 in forests. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is located here 
 and the park is also used for all kinds of outdoor exercises, such as baseball, football, tennis, rowing, etc. 
 
CLAREMONT RESTAU RANT— This is one of the historic landmarks of 
 the city being located along Riverside Drive on a bluff overlooking Grant s 
 Tomb It was modeled after Lord Cleve's historic Claremont in Surrey, Eng- 
 land, which is now owned by King George. Claremont was once the residence 
 of Joseph Bonaparte, who was made King of SDain by Napoleon. 
 
 THE JUMEL MANSION — Located at 160th Street near Amsterdam Avenue, 
 is the most historic house on Manhattan Island. It was built in 1763 by Roger 
 Morris, the husband of that Mary Philipse for whose hand George Washington 
 is said to have been an unsuccessful suitor. It was a farm house in 1790, when 
 General Washington gave a dinner in the old house to his cabinet officers and 
 their ladies. It is now owned by the City and contains a museum of Revolution- 
 ary relics. Open to visitors every day from 9 to 5. 
 
Bird's-eye View of lower New York. 
 
 Woolworth and Municipal Buildings, New York City. 
 
 Made in U S. A. Published by Manhattan Post Card Co., New York.