NEW YORK 



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NEW YORK 



President of the United States. Mention 

 should also be made of the three-million-dollar 

 home of the New York Stock Exchange, on 

 Broad Street, a thoroughfare which extends 

 south from the Subtreasury ; and of the artistic 

 new Custom House, which occupies an entire 

 block at the foot of Broadway, facing a small 

 park called Bowling Green. 



Government Buildings. The edifices used by 

 the city for administrative and judicial pur- 

 poses are in keeping with the great commercial 

 buildings. The offices of the mayor and of 

 various ofher city officials and the meeting 

 rooms of the board of aldermen are in the old 

 City Hall, a beautiful building begun early in 



nineteenth century and completed in 1812. 



- in the center of City Hall Park, a small 

 plot of green on Broadway, less than a mile 

 above the Battery. The City Hall is more 

 than an administrative building it is a mu- 

 seum of historic relics and works of art. The 

 old clock in its tower was destroyed by fire in 

 May, 1917. Facing this structure, on Park Row 

 and Center Street, with Chambers Street run- 

 ning through it. is the magnificent new Munici- 

 pal Building, twenty-four stories high. In this 

 building are housed the various city drpart- 



rs. It cost about $12,000,000, besides tin- 

 ground plot, and has several unique features. 

 All of it< window.- far. >nd n- base- 



ment contains a station where all the Brooklyn 

 and Manhattan subway lines meet. On 



.- T of Chambers and Center streets is the 

 $9,000,000 Hall of Records, whose fireproof 

 vaults guard of all of Manhattan's 



Criminal Courts Building, 

 on Center Street, is connected by the so- 

 called "Bridge of Sighs" with the great city 

 prison, the Tombs. The latter occupies an 



ro block and is one of the fine-t buildings 



tfl kind. At the junction of Park Row and 

 Broadway, facing tin- Wooluorth Building, is 

 i he handsome Post Office Building, an irapo 



pie of Doric and Renaissance architecture. 



Hotels, Theaters and Clubs. New York is 



unstirpa. mber and costliness of 



its hotels, theaters and clubs, most of which 



are found in the Broadway-Fifth Avenue dis- 



30th and 59th streets. The 



Waldorf- Astoria, 01 1 between 33rd 



and 34th streets, is one of the, best known of 



<lass hotels. To this group belong 



luxurious inns as the I'. < 'arl- 



Kmrk> ibnrker. V . As- 



md many others. Among several great 



iv hotels are the Plata and stic, 



and a splendid hostelry for women is the Mar- 

 tha Washington, on 29th Street. 



New York is universally looked upon by 

 Americans as the theatrical nucleus of their 

 country, for it is the headquarters and pro- 

 ducing center of practically all of the great 

 theatrical men and firms Shubert Brothers, 

 the Frohman Estate, Ziegfeld, Dillingham, 

 Cohan and Harris, and others. New Yorkers 

 and their visitors may find amusement in about 

 fifty standard theaters, in almost as many 

 vaudeville houses and music halls, and in over 

 800 moving picture theaters. The chief the- 

 atrical district is on or near Broadway, between 

 38th and 62nd streets, and in this section there 

 are probably more theaters to the square mile 

 than in any other section of equal size in the 

 world. These range in size from the so-called 

 "intimate theaters" the Little Theat.r. the 

 Bandbox and the Punch and Judy to the huge- 

 Hippodrome on Sixth Avenue between 

 and 45th streets, the shows for which have to 

 be made to order. In the block bounded by 

 Broadway, Seventh Avenue, 39th and 

 streets is the great Metropolitan Opera House, 

 where world-famous stars of grand opera are 

 heard. Of the music halls, the most notable is 

 the Carnegie, at 57th Street and Seventh A 

 nuc. In this edifice, the main auditorium of 

 which holds 3,000 people, are given the season 

 concerts of various choral and orchestral so- 

 cieties. 



There are over 200 clubs in New York, repre- 

 ;ng politics, art. religion, h ;>orts, 



theatricals, the professions, and other acti\ 

 Representative among them are the Union 

 League, the Army and Navy, the Km 

 bocker, the Lambs, the Players, the University, 

 the New York Athletic and the New York 

 Yacht. The club homes of many of these or- 

 ganizations are among the city's finest buildings. 



Churches. The Protestant Episcopalian is 

 the largest of the . Protestant bodies, and pre- 

 eminent among the churches of this denoraina- 

 tion is the Cathedral of Saint John the DP 

 on Morningside Heights, overlooking the Hud- 

 son. This magnificent edifice, when completed, 

 will be the largest cathedral in the New World. 

 Trinity Church, the parent church o; 

 nomination, is described elsewhere in this 

 cle. Second only to Trinity in point of interest 

 is the Church of the Transfiguration, on I 

 Street, near Madison Avenue. Because, many 

 years ago, a certain pastor in the neighborhood 

 -ed to read the burial service for an a 

 directed the messenger to apply at 



