The Old and the New, from Lower New York across the
Bridge to Brooklyn 24
From the top of the high building at Broadway and Pine
Street.
The old town does not change so fast about its edges 25
(Along the upper East River front looking north toward
Blackwell's Island.)
... opposite the oval of the ancient Bowling Green 29
... immigrant hotels and homes 30
No. 1 Broadway 30
Lower Broadway during a parade 30
The beautiful spire of Trinity 31
... clattering, crowded, typical Broadway 32
City Hall with its grateful lack of height 33
What's the matter? 34
In the wake of a fire-engine 35
No longer to be thrilled ... will mean to be old 37
Grace Church spire becomes nearer 39
Through Union Square 40
... windows which draw women's heads around 41
Instead of buyers ... mostly shoppers 42
... crossing Fifth Avenue at Twenty-third Street 43
Madison Square with the sparkle of a clear ... October
morning 44
In front of the Fifth Avenue Hotel 45
Diana on top glistening in the sun 46
Seeing the Avenue from a stage-top 47
... people go to the right, up Fifth Avenue 48
A seller of pencils 49
It is also better walking up here 50
... those who walk for the sake of walking 51
At the lower corner of the Waldorf-Astoria 52
... with baby-carriages 53
This is the region of Clubs 54
(The Union League.)
... close-ranked boarding-school squads 55
... the coachmen and footmen flock there 56
The Church of the Heavenly Rest 57
Approaching St. Thomas's 59
The University Club ... with college coats-of-arms 60
Olympia Jackies on shore leave 61
Down near the eastern end of the street 65
Across Trinity Church-yard, from the West 67
An Evening View of St. Paul's Church 69
The sights and smells of the water-front are here too 71
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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