New York: The Nation's Metropolis

New York (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works
NEW YORK
                        THE NATION’S METROPOLIS

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                               NEW YORK

                        THE NATION’S METROPOLIS

                                  BY

                             PETER MARCUS


                       _WITH AN APPRECIATION BY_

                           J. MONROE HEWLETT

                 PRESIDENT OF THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE
                              OF NEW YORK

                       [Illustration: colophon]

                               NEW YORK
                              BRENTANO’S
                              PUBLISHERS

                          COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY
                              BRENTANO’S

                         _All rights reserved_


                          THE PLIMPTON PRESS
                          NORWOOD·MASS·U·S·A




CONTENTS


    I. _Times Square._
   II. _Lower Broadway._
  III. _Exchange Place._
   IV. _Looking West on Brooklyn Bridge._
    V. _The City Hall._
   VI. _Wall Street._
  VII. _The Old Bridge._
 VIII. _The Tombs Prison._
   IX. _Looking West Along Peck Slip._
    X. _The East Pier, Brooklyn Bridge._
   XI. _The Municipal Building._
  XII. _New York from Fulton Ferry._
 XIII. _The Metropolitan Tower._
  XIV. _The Cathedral on the Avenue._
   XV. _Queensboro Bridge._
  XVI. _Fifth Avenue at Fifty-ninth Street._
 XVII. _Hell Gate Bridge._
XVIII. _Soldiers and Sailors Monument._
  XIX. _The Cathedral on the Heights._
   XX. _The Viaduct._
  XXI. _Grant’s Tomb._
 XXII. _The Battleship “Oklahoma” on the Hudson._
XXIII. _High Bridge._
 XXIV. _Washington Bridge._
  XXV. _Grand Central Station._




NEW YORK

THE CITY OF VIOLENT CONTRASTS


New York is preëminently the City of Violent Contrasts. Towering shafts
of brick and stone and steel, soaring traceries of cables, derricks,
girders and electric signs, smooth stretches of gray asphalt, subway and
sewer excavations, broad harbors and stately ships, oily canals and
garbage dumps, classic columns, gilded domes, palaces and shanties,
parks and fountains, factory chimneys and gas tanks; these are a few of
the items that occur in this as in other cities, but nowhere else are
these and other manifestations of beauty and ugliness, prosperity and
squalor brought into such vivid and striking relief, and of no other
city can we say with equal truth that it defies the effort to summarize
briefly its typical characteristics. Fragments and details suggestive of
widely differing phases of its life persistently force themselves into a
single picture without regard to orderly classification or proper
dramatic sequence.
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New York: The Nation's Metropolis

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