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'little church 'round the corner," the Transfigu- 

 ration has come to be known everywhere as 

 the "Little Church 'round the Corner." Play- 

 ers hold it in special reverence, and it has sev- 

 eral beautiful memorial windows to actors. The 

 church is a low building in Gothic style, with 

 vine-covered walls, and is very attractive. An- 

 other beautiful Gothic structure of the Episco- 

 pal denomination is Grace Church, on Broad- 

 way and Tenth. It is one of a group of build- 

 ings made of white limestone. 



Among the Methodist churches the one of 

 greatest interest is the John Street, for it is 

 built on the site of the first Methodist church 



Parks. Battery Park, at the southern tip of 

 Manhattan, and several smaller plots of green 

 that freshen the busiest section of the city, 

 have been mentioned in the description of 

 Broadway. Of the larger areas Central Park 

 is the most famous. It stretches along Fifth 

 Avenue for two and one-half miles, from 59th 

 Street on the south to 110th Street on the 

 north, and contains 879 acres. The lawns, 

 flower gardens and wooded areas of this park 

 are among the most beautiful in the world. 

 Among its other attractions arc nine miles of 

 roads, twenty-right milrs of walks and over five 

 miles of bridle paths, an imposing promenade 



IX CENTRAL PARK 



One of the largest of the world's city parks, with a. land value of untold millions of dollars, but 

 possessing still greater value as a recreation ground for the people of the crowded city. 



erected in America, and is known as the "cradle 

 of Methodism." Other well-known churches are 

 the Saint Nicholas Dutch Reformed (the oldest 

 Protestant denomination in New York), the 

 Fifth Avenue Baptist, the Fifth Avenue Pr< 

 byterian, the Broadway Tabernacle (Congre- 

 gational), All Souls' Unitarian, the Divine Pa- 

 ternity (Universalist), the Holy Trinity (Lu- 

 theran), the Jewish Temple Emanuel, the First 

 Church of Christ, Scientist, and Saint Patrick's 

 Cathedral (Roman Catholic). The last named 

 is one of the most ornate cathedrals in America. 

 At 7 East 15th Street is the commodious 

 Y. W. C. A. building; the Y. M. C. A. has its 

 headquarters on 23rd Street west of Seventh 

 Avenue. 



The Mall a great zoological garden much 

 loved by the children, reservoirs and lakes, 

 playgrounds for boys and girls, picturesque 

 bridges, archways and numerous fine statues. 

 Not the least interesting feature of the park is 

 a stately Egyptian obelisk, one of the famous 

 Needles of Cleopatra (see illustration on page 

 1417). On the Fifth Avenue side is the Metro- 

 politan Museum of Art, the largest institution 

 of its kind in North America. No park in the 

 world is more accessible to a city's millions than 

 is Central Park, and it is frequently visited in 

 a single day by 100,000 persons. 



Brooklyn possesses a park which, though not 

 so large as Central Park, is quite as beautiful. 

 This is a great pleasure ground called Prospect 



