King's Views of New York - V

Time for more from the "Kings's Views of New York." While I was putting this post together, I noticed one of the photos was dated 1916, this means my date of 1915 for this book has been incorrect all along, therefore I am deleting the "1915" from the title of each of the previous posts in this series. Sorry for any confusion.

Click on the "See LARGE" link to see each photo in much more detail.




(See LARGE) Photo: Geo P. Hall & Son - 1911
Battery Park and Whitehall Building - Battery Pl., West to Washington Sts.; one of the largest office buildings in the world; 550,000 sq. ft. rentable area; 11,000,000 cu. ft.; original $1,000,000 building, 20 stories, 254 ft. high, opened 1903; $4,600,000 addition, 34 stories, 416 ft. high, completed 1911; frontage, 180 ft. on Battery Pl., 264 on Washington St., 307 ft. on West St., garden on Washington St. so secure light and air to all suites; area of combined plots, 51,515 sq. ft., of 21 city lots; 30 high-speed electric traction elevators.


(See LARGE) Photo: Irving Underhill - Date N/A
New York Produce Exchange - fronting on Bowling Green; organized 1861; $3,000,000 building, 307 by 150 ft., occupied 1884; clock tower, 40 by 70 and 240 ft. high; trading room, 2nd floor, 220 by 144 ft. and 60 ft. high, daily scene of the largest volume of trading in grain and provisions of any exchange in the world; 2,140 members, representing every important shipping centre in America. Important factor in improvement of the waterfront and the building of the $101,000,000 barge-canal across New York State. John Aspegren, President.


(See LARGE) Photo by: American Studio - 1916
Broadway and Lower New York - from the Woolworth Building, showing the deep ravine formed by the huge skyscrapers, with the financial center of the world at the left, and the Hudson and East Rivers uniting to form New York Bay the worlds greatest harbor, with Governor's Island seperated from Brooklyn by Buttermilk Channel. Wall Street lies behind the huge Equitable Building.


(See LARGE)
New Steamship Piers - largest in the world, under construction on the Hudson River from 44th to 48th St., for berthing of huge modern express steamships; piers each 1,050 ft. long, 150 ft. wide, with berths 360 ft. wide and 44 ft. deep, cut into solid rock. This work has necessitated construction of the largest coffer dam in the world, 800 ft. long, costing $497,500 to hold back a head of water 68 ft. high, 55,000,000 gallons of water being pumped out to permit dry blasting. Piers to cost $1,500,000 each. R.A.C. Smith, Commissioner of Docks and Ferries.


(See LARGE) Photo by: Irving Underhill - 1907
Trinity Church - Broadway at the head of Wall St.; founded 1696; third church on present site, completed 1846; 192 ft. long, 80 ft. wide; $40,000 bronze doors and $100,000 marble (unreadable) and reredos, gift of the Astor Family; the parish owns $10,000,000 worth of productive real estate in lower part of city, yeilding an income of over $750,000 a year, used to maintain nine chapels, 12 schools and 20 parishes that do missionary work in poorer sections of the city; Alex. Hamilton's grave marked by pyramid near Rector St., Robert Fulton's body nearby. Rev. Dr. Wm. T. Maning, Rector.

...to be continued.