ON nil: USE OF stone in ( riii:s 287 



Above One I I iiiulrcd and 'l\'iuh street, there is a great 

 deal of hiiikliiiL;' in what is known as Ilarhan. and there are 

 niaiu' noteworthy piiMie striictnrc-s and elegant honses of 

 stone. 1 here is appai'cntK' more hrownstone used here 

 than in the streets west of the [)ark. 



The high ground west of Ilark.'in, and extending north- 

 ward to the end ot th(,' ishmd, Is not keing kuilt up so ra[)- 

 idl)' as the le\el east of it. I'iicrc- are some line klocks of costly 

 stone dwelling-houses, and main' In course; of construction. 

 All kinds of stone are used, but the \arious sandstones 

 and the oolitic limestones are most commonK' seen. There 

 are still many frame' kulldings, and also man\' of kriek, 

 mostl)' small and inex[)ensl\'e. The gneissic rocks of the 

 ledges, which are cut b)' grading for streets or in cellar ex- 

 cavations, have yielded stone for some of the large public 

 institutions on this part of the Island. 



The number of buildings In the cit\', as rej:)orted Septem- 

 ber, 1889. ^^y ^^^^' -^Lip^'i'intendent of buildings, Thomas J. 

 Brady, of the bureau of inspection of buildings, East Sixty- 

 seventh street, is 120,900. The)' are grouped in the 

 followinor divisions, viz. : 



1. South ot Chambers street 4,817 



2. Between Chambers and Houston streets 18,126 



3. Between Houston and Twenty-third streets 20,385 



4. Between Twenty-third and Fifty-ninth streets. ... 28,127 



5. Between Fifty-ninth and One Hundred and Tenth streets. 19.767 



6. From One Hundred and Tenth street to Harlem river.... 14.524 



7. North of the Harlem river 14.694 



8. On the islands in harbor and river 460 



Total 1 20,900 



According to an enumeration made bv the bureau of in- 

 spection of buildings, of the fire departmeiit of the cit\", in 

 1882, there were in the city 102,624 buildings, of which 

 73,641 were of brick, stone, Iron and other non-Intlammable 

 material, and 28,798 of wood and other inflammable 

 material, exclusively. The percentage of stone buildings In 



