King's Views of New York - X

A day late but better late than never, here is this week's installment of Kings Views of New York. Click on the "See Large" link beneath each photo to see it in much more detail - but you already knew that.




(See Large) - Photo by: Irving Underhill (1913)
Broadway from Cedar Street North - deep canyon through which flows the greatest human tide in the world, 220,000 passing in a business day; subway under street; additional subways being built under parallel streets on either side; headquarters of big manufacturing and commercial concerns; Jewelry District to right; Guaranty Trust Co. at Liberty St.; Lawyers Title Ins. & Trust Co. U.S. Realty Building, 306 Ft.; Washington Life Building, 273 ft.; American Exchange Natl. Bank, 235 ft.; Silversmith's Bldg., 264 ft.


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Broadway and Park Row - view from the "Evening Mail" Building, looking north east; busiest section of the city, with half a million people daily passing through these thoroughfares and adjacent streets. Park Row leads past the Brooklyn Bridge Terminal to the Bowery at Chatham Square and was known as Chatham Street until 1886, when the Aldermen changed the name. In this photo (L to R): Woolworth Bldg, roof of St. Paul's Chapel, Federal Bldg., Municipal Bldg., St. Paul Bldg., Nat'l Park Bank.


(See Large) - Photo: Equitable Office Building Corp'n (1913)
Equitable Building - Broadway, Cedar to Pine Stret, through to Nassau St., 38 stories; 537.5 ft. high; 45 acres floor space; rooms for 15,000 workers; 48 elevators, whose combined lift would be four miles; erected by Equitable Office Building Corporation at a cost of $29,000,000; Gen. T. Coleman Du Pont, President; E.R. Graham, Architect; on site of famous Equitable Building destroyed by fire Jan. 9, 1912. Equitable Life Assurance Society, founded 1859, assets $528,442,491; insurance in force $1,500,000,000; W.A. Day, President.


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Liberty Tower - N.W. corner of Liberty and Nassau Sts.; 31 story building on plot 57.9 by 82.1 ft., on site of old Bryant Building; 401 ft. high; typical of the development of large office area on small plots in response to demands of business downtown.


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German-American Insurance Co. - Liberty St. and Maiden Lane; 21 stories, 281 ft. high, rests on large cassions, 42 ft. below cellar. Org. 1872; cap., $2,000,000; risks, $240,000,000; surplus, $9,250,000; assets, $22,000,000; W.N. Kremer, Pres.


...to be continued.