King's Views of New York - XIII

Due to finally getting back to a 40 hour work week after over a year of reduced hours, "King's Views of New York" will now appear here on Saturday instead of Friday...unless I manage to get it up on Friday. So it will definateley appear...eaither Friday or Saturday...or something. Anyway, here is this week's installment, number 13. As always, click on the "See Large" link beneath any image to see it in much more detail.




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The World, Pulitzer Building - Park Row, opposite City Hall Park, 309 ft. high, 375 ft. basement to dome; founded 1860; purchased by Joseph Pulitzer; largest newspaper office building, tallest in the city when erected in 1889; enlarged 1907. Site of historic French's Hotel, purchased 1888 for $630,000. Morning and evening editions.


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Printing House Square - Park Row, Nassau Street and Spruce Street; newspaper centre 60 years. "Tribune Building", erected '73; enlarged '06. "Sun", founded '33, adjoining, to move to Am. Tract Building,; "World" in next block; "Press", "Commercial", and "Staats Zeitung" on Spruce Street; "American", "Evening Mail", "Evening Post" nearby. 41 Park Row Old "Times Building"


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Wholesale District - Viewed from Woolworth Building, greatest jobbing center in the world, wholesale drygoods houses lining Broadway for two miles from City Hall to 23rd Street and occupying side streets to West Broadway and Varick Streets, where the grocery business centres; in the foreground Chambers Street, is given over to elctrical supplies, and to the south is the crockery district; in lofts throughout this district and East to the Bowery, 200,000 people are employed in manufacturing; to the right is the lower East Side, most populous spot on Earth, 600,000 people living in one sqaure mile.


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City Hall - seen from Park Row, showing the seat of city government in a setting of business buildings. The portico is the scene of official ceremonies. In the cultural part of the building, second floor front, is the Governor's room, scene of official receptions; this has been restored to it's colonial beauty at a cost of $50,000, half contributed by Mrs. Russell Sage; it contains the chair in which George Washington was innaugerated the first president, the desk on which he wrote his first message and portraits of Revolutionary Chieftains, Governors and Mayors.


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Broadway - North from Murray Street, the upper end of the office building district and the beginning of the wholesale district; centre for typewriters, office furniture and supplies, library equipment, fire-arm, safes; formerly centre of the wholesale dry goods businesses.


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Bradstreet's Building - Lafayette Street, NW corner of Howard. Widely known Mercantile Agency, established over 60 years, connections over civilized world, issues quarterly volume of commercial ratings of bankers, merchants, etc. Executive offices 346 B'way.


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Hall of Records - Chambers Street, NW corner Centre, through to Reade Street; $10,000,000 steel and granite structure for the preservation of real estate records of New york County; interior finish marble, bronze and mahogany; offices of the Register, County Clerk, Surrogate, and Tax and law departments. The 32 granite monoliths cost $30,000 each. The sculptures include emblamatic figures by Bush-Brown and Martiny and statues of 8 men prominent in the city's history. John R. Thomas and Horgan Slattery, Architects; John Peirce, Builder.


...to be continued.