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THE VIADUCT
THE HUDSON and the Palisades combine in making “Riverside” one of the most naturally beautiful driveways in the world. Yet it owes much also to the workers of magic in steel. Northward from Grant’s Tomb and Claremont for half a mile or more it is upheld by giant arches of their making. Across a whole valley, this broad roadbed all glistening in the sun and streaked by the gay lines of endless pleasure traffic, rolls grandly on, supported by the silent strength of that great land bridge, the Viaduct.
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GRANT’S TOMB
THE tomb of Ulysses S. Grant at One Hundred and Twenty-second Street and Riverside Drive is one of New York’s best known landmarks. A structure of impressive grandeur and large historic interest, it encourages the thousands of New Yorkers that pass it daily to look forward to the time when their city will be ennobled by a fitting memorial of the heroic officers and men of the great world war.