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Park. From the summit of its chief elevation, 

 Lookout Hill, one may enjoy a magnificent 

 view over New York .Harbor, Long Island, the 

 Palisades and the thickly-settled districts of 

 South Brooklyn, and the park is thus well 

 named. In the Bronx is a park of over 700 

 acres, famed for its zoological and botanical 

 The wild animals exhibited in Bronx 

 Park have surroundings that are as nearly as 

 possible like those in their native homes, and 

 the land :ngs for both the menagerie 



and the plants are exceedingly beautiful. 



There air two other large parks outside of 

 Manhattan Van Cortlandt (1,132 acres), at the 

 northern terminus of the Broadway line of the 

 borough Subway; and Pelham Bay Park 

 on Long Island Sound near Bay- 

 er. Both have fine golf links, baseball 

 grounds and tennis courts, and Pelham Park 

 has bathing beaches and ample facilities for 

 campers. Bronx, Van Cortlandt and Pelham 

 I -arks are connected with a boulevard drive. 

 k residents also have access to a mag- 

 entpark along the Palisades of the Hudson. 

 See PALISADES, also illustration, in article NKW 

 YOKK (state]. Among smaller parked areas, of 

 special interest are Riverside Park, of which 

 Riverside Drive is a part, and Morningside 

 Park, laid out on rocky heights north of Cen- 

 tral Park between 110th and 123rd streets. One 

 of the beautiful edifices of Riverside Park is 

 tomb of General Grant, an illustration of 

 which appears in these volumes on page 2572. 

 Tl ! Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, at Riv- 

 erside Drive and 89th Street, is another impos- 

 ire. 



Educational Institutions. Two of the largest 

 unn iln- United States are located in 



New York Columbia, with it.< main buildings 

 on Morningsi :, and New York Uni- 



versity, the campus of which is on the east bank 

 of the Harlem Hiver. in the Bronx. (Both of 

 these institutions are described else 

 these volumes). Two affiliated colleges Bar- 

 nard College (for women) and Teachers' Col- 

 md women) occupy sites on the 

 Columbia University campus. Another impor- 

 tant institution is the College of the City of 

 New York (see NEW YORK, COLLEGE OF THE 

 CITY OF), at 138th Street and Convent Avenue. 

 Important institutions under denominational 

 control are Union Theological Seminary (Pres- 

 byterian), the General Theological Seminary 

 (Protestant Episcopal), the Jewish Theologi- 

 tl >.;:,:;,,: \ -i erica, and Saint John's 



College and the ( 'ollcge of Saint Francis Xa 



both under Roman Catholic control. Schools 

 of art, music and the professions and private 

 academies are found in numbers commensurate 

 with the city's population. Cooper Union (de- 

 scribed in a subhead under COOPER, PETER) is 

 an institution especially for working people. 



Libraries and Museums. Housed in one of 

 the finest library buildings in the United States 

 is the great collection of books, manusc: 

 and art treasures that constitute the New York 

 Public Library. The structure is of white mar- 

 ble and occupies a prominent site on Fifth Ave- 

 nue between 40th and 42nd streets. In the 

 Bronx, Richmond and Manhattan there are 

 about fifty branch libraries, and these and the 

 c-eiitral building contain over 2,000,000 volu 

 The central library is as well a great museum 

 of rare books and manuscripts, sculptures, paint- 

 and pottery. Another important public 

 library, but one which is maintained by sub- 

 scription fee-*, is the Mercantile, at Lafayette 

 Place and Kiphth Street. It has over 230,000 

 volumes. The public also has access to the ref- 

 .re room of Columbia University Library, 

 where 10,000 volumes are available to readers. 

 Various historical, geographical and professional 

 ties have valuable private libraries, and 

 that of Cooper Union is also important. 



The superb buildings and collections of the 

 Metropolitan Museum of Art are described in 

 these volumes under that title. At Central 

 Park West and 77th Street is the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, with priceless collec- 

 tions representing all phases of natural history. 

 An important feature of this institution is a 

 lecture system, for which a hall seating 

 1,500 is provided. The Historical Society also 

 maintains an interesting museum of historic 

 relics and documents. 



Transportation. It is not difficult to under- 

 stand why the problem of intercommunication 

 in N has taxed the ingenuity of the 



mo.-t ,-kilful enu'ineerv With the great business 

 interests cent. i. d m the lower end of Manhat- 

 tan, bringing daily into the narrow island space 

 thousands and thousands of workers, it was in- 

 >ble that street car lines should be built in 

 the air and underground as well as on the sur- 

 face. There is now in operation an intricate 

 system of sun ated and subway lines, 



and cross-water traffic is carried on by means 

 of bridges, ferries and tunnels. Thus all por- 

 tions of the huge New York district have con- 

 nt facilities for intercommunication, 

 -ubway system is the most extcn.- 

 the world. Previous to 1913 there \v. :. t\\,, 



