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Meade Creighton Williams


[CONTENTS]

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The Water-Front[1]
The Walk Up-Town[27]
The Cross Streets[63]
Rural New York City[99]

[ILLUSTRATIONS]

On the Harlem River—University Heights from Fort George[Frontispiece]
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Grant's Tomb and Riverside Drive (from the New Jersey Shore)[3]
Down along the Battery sea-wall is the place to watch the ships go by[5]
Old New Amsterdam[7]
Just as it has been for years. (Between South Ferry and the Bridge.)
New New York[9]
Not a stone's throw farther up ... the towering white city of the new century. (Between South Ferry and the Bridge.)
From the point of view of the Jersey commuter ... some uncommon, weird effects[11]
(Looking back at Manhattan from a North River ferry-boat.)
Swooping silently, confidently across from one city to the other[13]
(East River and Brooklyn Bridge.)
Looking up the East River from the Foot of Fifty-ninth Street[15]
Even in sky-line he could find something new almost every week or two[17]
The end of the day—looking back at Manhattan from the Brooklyn Bridge.
For the little scenes ... quaint and lovable, one goes down along the South Street water-front[19]
Smacks and oyster-floats near Fulton Market. (At the foot of Beekman Street, East River.)
This is the tired city's playground[21]
Washington Bridge and the Speedway—Harlem River looking south.
Here is where the town ends, and the country begins[23]
(High Bridge as seen looking south from Washington Bridge.)
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]
An Old Landmark on the Lower West Side[73]
(Junction of Canal and Laight Streets.)
Up Beekman Street[75]
Each ... has to change in the greatest possible hurry from block to block.
Under the Approach to Brooklyn Bridge[77]
Chinatown[79]
It still remains whimsically individual and village-like[81]
A Fourteenth Street Tree[83]
Such as broad Twenty-third Street with its famous shops[85]
A Cross Street at Madison Square[87]
Across Twenty-fourth Street—Madison Square when the Dewey Arch was there[88]
Herald Square[91]
As it Looks on a Wet Night—The Circle, Fifty-ninth Street and Eighth Avenue[93]
Hideous high buildings[95]
Looking east from Central Park at night.
Flushing Volunteer Fire Department Responding to a Fire Alarm[103]
A Bit of Farm Land in the Heart of Greater New York[105]
Acre after acre, farm after farm, and never a sign of city in sight.
One of the Farmhouses that have Come to Town[107]
The old Duryea House, Flushing, once used as a head-quarters for Hessian officers.
East End of Duryea House, where the Cow is Stabled[108]
The Old Water-power Mill from the Rear of the Old Country Cross-roads Store[109]
The Old Country Cross-roads Store, Established 1828[110]
In the background is the old water-power mill.
Interior of the Old Country Cross-roads Store[111]
The Colony of Chinese Farmers, Near the Geographical Centre of New York City[112]
Working as industrially as the peasants of Europe, blue skirts, red handkerchiefs about their heads[113]
Remains of a Windmill in New York City, Between Astoria and Steinway[114]
The Dreary Edge of Long Island City[115]
The Procession of Market-wagons at College Point Ferry[116]
Past dirty backyards and sad vacant lots[117]
New York City Up in the Beginnings of the Bronx Regions—Skating at Bronxdale[119]
Another Kind of City Life—Along the Marshes of Jamaica Bay[121]
There is profitable oyster-dredging in several sections of the city[123]
Cemetery Ridge, Near Richmond, Staten Island[126]
A Peaceful Scene in New York[127]
In the distance is St. Andrew's Church, Borough of Richmond, Staten Island.
A Relic of the Early Nineteenth Century, Borough of Richmond[128]
An Old-fashioned, Stone-arched Bridge. (Richmond, Staten Island)[129]
An Old House in Flatbush[131]