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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1768. The building, of white Vermont marble with agranite base, was erected in 1902 and cost over $1,500,000. The main hall is90x60 feet. HALL OF RECORDS. Chambers, Reade and Center Streets. A splendid fire-proof structure built of steel and Maine granite, for the safe-keeping of real estatedeeds, mortgages, etc., of Manhattan Borough, also for Surrogates Courts andCity Offices. Erected 1904, and cost $5,000,000. PARK ROW ENTRANCE TO BROOKLYN BRIDGE during the rush hours offers a scene unequalled anywhere. Hundreds of thousands of human beingscrush and struggle in the general mix-up of vehicles and trolley-cars, striving to board a home conveyance. The daily rush has been relieved to some extent sincethe opening of the Willamsburg and Blackwells Island bridges, and will grow still less strenuous when the Manhattan bridge, now in process of erection, iscompleted. At the right in the view is the entrance to the tall Pulitzer Building, the home of the great newspaper, The New York World.
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