New York of to-day. (1912) (14780613574)

Identifier: newyorkoftoday00durs (find matches)
Title: New York of to-day.
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC
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Publisher: Portland, Me. : L. H. Nelson co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization



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U. S. CUSTOM HOUSE, Bowling Green, foot of Broadway. Occupies an entire block, and was completed in 1907 at a cost of $7,200,000. This beautifulstructure is the finest customs building in the world. Doric colonnades give a superb air of stateliness to the walls, and the cornice is embellished with statuesemblematic of the great commercial nations. Larger groups representing the continents, America, Europe. Africa, and Asia, by Daniel C. French, flank eitherside of the main entrance. A cartouche emblematic of the American Nation, by Carl Bitter, is the crowning feature of the facade. Cass Gilbert, Architect.
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THE BOWERY. A thoroughfare of world-wide fame. It derived its name from the bouweries or farms between which it ran during the old Dutch days.In later years the lower end grew to be a series of dives, saloons, shows, etc., and became the favorite resort of a tough element. Here the peculiar type of swag-gering ruffian, the Bowery Boy, was developed. The street has lost much of its former bad repute, and the boy has disappeared. The milder young toughsof today are in turn giving way to the frugal and good-natured German and Jew. Better shops are being opened year by year. The Bowery now boasts thelargest savings bank in the world. LOOKING NORTH FROM 23d STREET. View looking up Broadway to the left and 5th Avenue to the right from the Flat Iron Building at 23d Street. Lessthan half a century ago this was largely a country district. The Times Building towers at the distant curve of Broadway almost obscured by the nearer huge bulkof the Hoffman House. The Waldorf shows prominently in the