Residences - (1) Ex-U.S. Senator W.A. Clark, 5th Ave. & 77th. (2) Wm. H. Barnard, Riverside Drive & 89th. (3) L.C. Tiffany, 27 E. 72nd. (4) Old H.P. Whitney Residence, 2 W. 57th. (5) Vanderbilt twin houses, 5th Ave.; H.C. Frick, 51st St. cor.; Wm. D. Sloane, 52d St. (6) Mrs. Isaac V. Brokaw, 5th Ave. and 79th. (7) Geo. J. Gould, 5th Ave. and 67th. (8) Andrew Carnegie, 5th Ave., 91st to 92d. (9) E.T. Gerry, 5th Ave., 61st. (10) Mrs. C. Vanderbilt, 5th Ave., 57th to 58th. (11) James Stillman, 9 E. 72d. (12) J.P. Morgan, Madison Ave., 36th, with provate art gallery. (13) J.D. Rockefeller, 4 W. 54th. (14) Mrs. Joseph H. Pulitzer, 11 E. 73rd. (15) Chas. M. Schwab, Riverside Drive, 73rd to 74th. (16) E.J. Berwind, 2 E. 64th.
Brooklyn Borough - (Drawn by Richard W. Rummell - 1907)
77.62 square miles, from the East River to Atlantic Ocean, from New York Bay to Queens Borough. Population, 1914, 1,916,655. Settled 1623; incorporated 1834; consolidated with New York, 1898. Taxable property land and improvements, $1,680,013,591. Franchises, etc., $120,919,054; personality, $46,296,870; real estate exempt from taxation, $230,774,655, total $2,078,004,170. 48 parks of 1663 acres, including Prospect, 516 acres, most beautiful in the world; 44 miles of parkways; 1,459 miles of streets. Brooklyn is a city of homes, with 320,000 school children, yet its 5,000 factories in 1913 produced goods valued at $900,000,000. Busiest shipping district in the world; N.Y. Dock Co., Atlantic Basin (40 acres), Erie Basin (161 acres), Bush Terminal, South Brooklyn, largest piers in the world.
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