Identifier: oldnewyorkyester00brow (find matches)
Title: Old New York yesterday & today
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Brown, Henry Collins, 1862-1961
Subjects: Historic buildings
Publisher: New York : Priv. print for Valentine's Manual and to be sold at the Sign of the Dog and Duck
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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The "Squatters" around 42nd. Street, 1870
All the region north of 42nd Street was a rocky neighborhood, tenanted by "Squatters," who put up a great battle when the work
of building the Grand Central began. These Squatters had a precarious existence and depended on goats for a considerable part of
their living. They were a unique feature in upper New York for many years. It was a wild country north of 42nd Street in the 60's
and these rookeries covered all of what is now Central Park and along Fifth Avenue east, as well as 42nd Street.
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The Crystal Palace

Not far from the rocks and shanties of 42nd Street on the east rose this palace of Industrial Arts on 42nd Street on what is now
Bryant Park. It was known as the Crystal Palace and was the forerunner ot all the expositions and worlds fairs that have
since succeeded. It was erected in 1853 with P. T. Barnum as president and Washington Irving among the directors. It caught
fire one afternoon in 58 and was burned to the ground. At the extreme right is the Croton Reservoir, Fifth Avenue and
42nd Street, shown on another page.

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