Ex SitbrtB SEYMOUR DURST When you leave, please leave this hook Because it has heen said " Ever' thing comes f him who waits Except a loaned hook." OLD YORK LIBRARY _ OLD YORK FOUNDATION Greater New York ILLUSTRATED. OVER ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF THE FOREMOST CITY OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE. RAND, McNALLY & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, Chicago and New York. Copyright, 1897, by Rand, McNally & Co. Copyright, 1899, by Rand, McNally & Co. Copyright, 1901, by Rand, McNally & Co. Copyright, 1902, by Rand, McNally & Co. Copyright, 1904, by Rand, McNally & Co. Copyright, 1907, by Rand, McNally & Co. Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library Gift of Seymour B. Durst Old York Library TABLE OF CONTENTS PAOE American Museum of Natural History . . . 19s American Surety Co.'s Building 59 Astor, Mrs. John Jacob, Residence of . . .171 Battery Park and Upper Bay 9-29 Blackwell's Island, South End 37 Bowery, The 1 1 5 Bowling Green Building 47 Bridges, Prospect Park, Brooklyn .... 247 Brighton Beach, Coney Island 25' Broad Street, Looking South from Wall Street . 7 1 Broad Street, Looking North from Beaver . . 49 Broadway, Looking North from Murray Street . 95 Broadway and Bond Street to Tenth Street . 105 Broadway, Looking North from Post Office . . 83 Broadway and Fifth Avenue, Junction of . .127 Broadway from Tenth Street to Union Square . 109 Broadway, Looking North from Exchange Place 55 Brooklyn Bridge 235 Brooklyn, Fulton and Court Streets . . . .241 Brooklyn Savings Bank 243 Castle William, Governor's Island, New York Bay 19 Calvary Church 129 Central Park, East Drive 181 Central Park, Fountain and Lake 185 Central Park, View of 183 Century Club 163 Church and Library, Sailors' Snug Harbor, Staten Island 27 Church Missions House, Entrance . . . .159 City Hall 97 City Hall Park 93 City Prison 103 Coffee Exchange 63 College of Pharmacy 155 Colonial Club 203 Columbia University, Library of 209 Columbus Monument i75~i77 Conklin, Roscoe, Statue of 89 Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange . . 51 Corn Exchange Bank 65 Custom House 9 Dakota Flats 201 David Island 39 Delmonico's 61 Dun Building 75 Empire Building 57 Fidelity & Casualty Co.'s Building .... 63 Fifth Avenue, Fifty-first to Fifty-second Street . 161 Fifth Avenue, Looking North from One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Street 227 Fifth Avenue, Looking South from Twenty- second Street 131 Fire Headquarters, Brooklyn 239 Fuller Building 135 Fort Schuyler 39 PAOE Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island 19 Gansevoort Market 117 Gould's, Geo., Residence 197 Grace Church 107 Grand Central Station 151 Grant's Tomb, Riverside Drive 221 Hale, Nathan, Statue of 89 Hall of Architectural Casts, Metropolitan Museum of Art 189 Hall of Records 91 Herald Square '43 High Bridge 233 Holland House 145 Hotel Waldorf-Astoria 147 Hotel Majestic 199 Hotel Margaret, Columbia Heights, Brooklyn . 237 Hotel New Netherland 173 Hotel Savoy '73 Huntington, Collis P., Residence of . . . .171 Judson Memorial Baptist Church . . . .113 Knickerbocker Theater 14° Liberty, Statue of, Front View, from Southeast . 23 Liberty, Statue of, Side View, from West . . 25 Life Building 139 Looking Southwest from New York and Brook- lyn Bridge 13 Looking South from New York and Brooklyn Bridge • .■ .• 15 Lusitania, the largest and fastest steamship in the world 25s Madison Square Garden 137 Mail and Express Building. . ... . . 77 Manhattan Life Insurance Co.'s Building . . 53 Matthews, J. H., Residence of 205 May Parties, Central Park 191 Memorial Arch, Brooklyn 233 Metropolitan Club 153 Metropolitan Museum of Art 187 Metropolitan Opera House 149 Montauk Club, Brooklyn 24S Moonlight on New York Bay 21 Morningside Park 223-229 New East River Bridge 237 New York Bay from Battery 7 New York Bay, a Misty Morning on . . . . 17 New York City Hall 97 New York Clearing House .61 New York Life Building 101 New York Post Office . . 85 New York Stock Exchange, Interior of ... 73 Normal College . . . 193 Ocean Steamers in Berths, North River ... 41 Park Row Building .87 Physics, Department of 153 Printing House Square 93 Proctor's Fifth Avenue Theater 141 PAGE Produce Exchange 29 Prospect Park, Brooklyn 249 Rapid Transit Tunnel . . . . . . .10.1 Residences, Northeast Corner Madison Avenue and Fiftieth Street ' f >S Riverside Drive and Grant's Tomb . . . . 219 Riverside Drive, Looking North from Grant's Tomb 215 Riverside Drive, Looking North from One Hun- dred and Twelfth Street 211 Riverside Drive, Looking North from One Hun- dred and Twentieth Street . .213 Riverside Drive and One Hundred and Eighth Street . 207 Salvation Army Building "9 Sectional Dry Dock and Brooklyn Navy Yard . 35 Singer Building 7 5 Sixth Avenue, Looking North from Fourteenth Street Station of Elevated Railroad . .121 Society of American Artists "63 Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument 217 Sound Steamer Leaving North River Pier . . 33 South Street, Looking South from Cocnties Slip 43 South Street, Scenes on 45 St. Bartholomew's Parish House 155 St. Francis Xavier Church, Interior of . . .125 St. Tames Building 133 St. Luke's Hospital 225 St. Patrick's Cathedral J57 St. Patrick's Cathedral, Interior of . . . .159 St. Paul Building 81 St. Paul Chapel 79 •St. Thomas Church 167 Stock Exchange Building 49 Temple Beth-El 145 The Mall, Central Park 179 Times Building 149 Trinity Church, from Wall Street .... 67 Union Square 123 United States Sub-Treasury 69 United States Trust Co 6s Vanderbilt, Cornelius, Residence of . . . .169 View from Brooklyn, showing East River Bridge 5 View from Grant's Tomb 217 View from North River 5 View Looking Northeast from Roof of Office Building, 66 Broadway 31 View Looking Southwest from Roof of Office Building, 66 Broadway 11 Wall Street and Trinity Church 67 War Vessel in New York Harbor 253 Washington Bridge 231 Washington Memorial Arch m West Street, Looking North from Rector Street. 99 Work House, Blackwell's Island 37 3 Digitized by the Internet Archive ■ i n2013 http://archive.org/details/greaternewyorkilOOrand_0 7 governor's island. EAST RIVER— Looking south from New York and Brooklyn Bridge. 15 A MISTY MORNING ON NEW YORK BAY a SOUND STEAMER LEAVING NORTH RIVER PIER. 33 WORK HOUSE, BLACKWELL'S ISLAND — East River. FORT SCHUYLER — Entrance to Long Island Sound. DAVID ISLAND — Long Island Sound. 39 OCEAN STEAMERS IN BERTHS, NORTH RIVER. 4i > « fins," »[ top tes ! lar;' h ( i M ; ■■ . Iraf.r See / mil : &B m m m mm m ke*c : *k fens rr fmrmelmi tmiimli sm mil em eh ! mh b h m\mi< jm[mi im WMMta MM1 Hi ! h! i h. i H MMMfHltHjjHil! fr/frs rr rr rr. r n rr r r rr r 1 i 5 o /iT'rTrr-'i r^i 'flnr m 'j-r rtr.rr i*^ rir r» rf p 1: r fcr. ~im fr-~iim mlimim. fh* r-W ,M j> — r< , ,7>^;/#*r ^iF* J*liem: ir* j i— fc**^^^ i^P";"^^ ' AteM \VW M tlMt VUM II r u 3 o i 2 o u '-: pej CORN EXCHANGE BANK— Corner William and Beaver Streets. R. H. Robertson, Architect. UNITED STATES TRUST CO.— 45 Wall Street. R. W. Gibson, Architect. 65 73 -1_ 99 THE BOWERY "5, GANSEVOORT MARKET— West and Washington Streets, Gansevoort to Little Twelfth Street. ii7 SIXTH AVENUE — Looking north from Fourteenth Street Station of Elevated Railroad. 121 CALVARY CHURCH — Twenty-first Street and Fourth Avenue. 129 C/3 .d 3 e - 1! 'X u O O o CO TEMPLE BETH-EL, HEBREW — Southeast Corner Fifth Avenue and Seventy-sixth Street. Brunner & TRYON, Architects. HOLLAND HOUSE — Southwest Corner Fifth Avenue and Thirtieth Street. Geo. E. Harding & Gooch, Architects. U5 GRAND CENTRAL STATION — Forty-second Street, Vanderbilt Avenue, and Depew Place. i5i ST. BARTHOLOMEWS PARISH HOUSE — 205 East Forty-second Street. Renwick, Aspinwall & Renwick, Architects. 155 COLLEGE OF PHARMACY— 115 West Sixty-eighth Street. Little & O'Connor, Architects. 1 ENTRANCE, CHURCH MISSIONS HOUSE — Southeast Corner Fourth Avenue and Twenty-second Street. R. W. Gibson, Architect. 159 INTERIOR OF ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. THE CENTURY CLUB— 7 West Forty-third Street. McKim, Mead & White, Architects. SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARTISTS— 215 West Fifty-seventh Street. H. J. Hardenbergh, Architect. HOTEL NEW NETHERLAND— Northeast Corner Fifth Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street. Wm. H. Hume, Architect. 173 HOTEL SAVOY— Southeast Corner Fifth Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street. Ralph H. Townsend, Architect. COLUMBUS MONUMENT AND PLAZA-Broadway and 8th Avenue and 59th Street entrance to the Park. The greatest surface line exchange point in the city. 175 THE MALL, CENTRAL PARK. i79 THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART— Central Park, near Fifth Avenue and Eighty-second Street. 187 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART— Hall of Architectural Casts. 189 NORMAL COLLEGE — Park and Lexington Avenues, Sixty-eighth to Sixty-ninth Street. . . 193 HOTEL MAJESTIC — Central Park (West), Seventy-first to Seventy-second Street. Alfred Zucker, Architect. 199 THE DAKOTA FLATS— Northwest Corner Central Park (West) and Seventy-second Street. H. J. Hardenburg, Architect. 20I THE LIBRARY OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY— 116th Street, between Amsterdam Avenue and Boulevard. 209 RIVERSIDE DRIVE — Looking North from One Hundred and Twelfth Street. 211 RIVERSIDE DRIVE AND GRANT'S TOMB. 219 GRANT'S TOMB, RIVERSIDE DRIVE. 221 PHOTO. COPYRIGHT BY IRVING UNDERHILU MORNINGSIDE PARK AND CATHEDRAL HEIGHTS— uoth Street. 223 FIFTH AVENUE, LOOKING NORTH FROM ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIXTH STREET. 227 MORNINGSIDE PARK. 229 THE WASHINGTON BRIDGE— Across Harlem River, from One Hundred and Eighty-first Street and Tenth Avenue to Aqueduct Avenue. 231 u o o « Oh U w 0- tn O g IN PROSPECT PARK, BROOKLYN. 24Q WAR VESSEL IN NEW YORK HARBOR — Armored Cruiser " New York." 253 LUSITANIA— The largest and fastest steamship in the world. 255