King's Views of New York - XII

Kings's Views of New York week number 12. As always, click on the "See Large" link beneath each image to see in much more detail.




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City Hall Park - from Broadway, with Hall of Records, Municipal Building and Newspaper Row in the background; here, a mile from the Battery, were the northern limits of the city when City Hall was begun in 1803; now Manhattan borough extends 12 miles to the north, to the Ship Canal at Spuyten Duyvil; the Bronx carries the city line to Yonkers, and Mount Vernon, 16 miles away; the limits of Queens are 16 miles away; Brooklyn extends to the Atlantic Ocean, 11 miles; and Richmond borough stretches away to the lower bay, Tottenville being 20 miles away. The old County Court House, famous as Tweed's $10,000,000 job, is to be removed when new building is completed in Civic Centre to the north, and the City Court Building and the Federal Building are also to go, leaving the classic City Hall as the only structure in the park.


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East Side - typical view in the melting pot of the races, where men and women of all nationalities are developed into American citizens; the great congested district of lower Manhattan, north of Brooklyn Bridge and east of the Bowery, is the most densely populated in the world, with 300,000 people living in 370 acres; 40 per cent of the city's inhabitants are foreign born whites.


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Cooper Square - where Fourth and Third merge into the Bowery. Cooper Union, founded 1859 by Peter Cooper; is a free school of sciences and art, with $4,000,000 endowment. There are 72 instructors and over 4,000 pupils. John E. Parsons, President. Bible House, 8th to 9th Streets, built 1852 by American Bible Society, organized 1816; 100,000,000 Bibles issued in 98 years.


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St. Paul's Chapel - Trinity Parish, Broadway, Vesey to Fulton St., oldest church buiolding on Manhattan Island, erected 1764 then facing riverfront; Washington's pew marked by shield of U.S.; Gov. Clinton's by that of state. Graves of famous persons in churchyard. Brick building in churchyard houses offices of Trinity Parish. Erected in wheatfield now surrounded by world's greatest buildings. "Evening Mail" across Fulton St.; Hudson Terminals across Church St.; Western Union at Dey St., City Investing at Cortland St. and Singer Tower at Liberty St.


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Federal Building - one of the finest granite buildings in the world, 144 ft. facade at intersection of Broadway and Park Row, with 262 1/2 ft. on each thoroughfare and 279 ft. on Mail St. U.S. District and Circuit Courts and old General Post Office, which has 47 branches, 251 sub-stations; 38 post offices, 78 branches, 435 sub-stations in entire city. 1,6000 mails dispatched daily, 1,700 received; receipts, year ended June 30, '14, $31,000,000; entire city, $38,000,000; postal savings deposits, $4,500,000; 8,200 clerks and carriers. Edward M. Morgan, Postmaster.


...to be continued.