Photograph by Paul Thompson 



BOOKING DOWN LOWER BROADWAY, ACROSS THE BATTERY, BOWLING GREEN, AND 

 GOVERNOR'S ISLAND, TOWARD AMBROSE CHANNEL AND THE SEA 



The New York of the society novelist may be found if one seeks such things, as is the 

 case with ever}^ cosmopolitan city. But the New York that makes the education of its youth 

 its first concern, that spends millions for public recreation, that possesses one of the lowest 

 death rates in the world for cities of more than a million people, that in normal years absorbs 

 a hundred thousand foreigners into its body politic — that New York is too prosaic for sensa- 

 tional stories, and so the world's attention is focused upon the one withered petal of human 

 frailty rather than upon the beautiful blossom of civic achievement. 



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