What to see in New York . vicinity of somepublic or famous building that you will not re-gret visiting. They are scattered indiscriminatelythroughout the Greater City. There is one placestrangers never fail to see, although thousands ofpersons who have lived here all their lives havenever been near it and have seen it only from adistance. The place referred to is the Statue of Liberty,situated on Bedloes Island, within the walls of oldFort Wood. A small steamer makes hourly tripsfrom the Battery. The sight from the torch is wellworth the strenuous climb up the winding stairs inthe innards of t
What to see in New York . vicinity of somepublic or famous building that you will not re-gret visiting. They are scattered indiscriminatelythroughout the Greater City. There is one placestrangers never fail to see, although thousands ofpersons who have lived here all their lives havenever been near it and have seen it only from adistance. The place referred to is the Statue of Liberty,situated on Bedloes Island, within the walls of oldFort Wood. A small steamer makes hourly tripsfrom the Battery. The sight from the torch is wellworth the strenuous climb up the winding stairs inthe innards of the statue. The Chamber of Commerce at 65 Liberty streetis said to be the oldest commercial corporation inthe United States. The present magnificent struc-ture was erected in 1910. City Hall in City Hall Park is where MayorGaynor has his office. Here it is that the Board ofEstimate and Apportionment holds its meetings andimportant municipal matters are decided. The Boardof Aldermen also meets in its special chamber in the. Copyright, Thaddeus Wilkerson, New York New York Public Library building. In some of the rooms of City Hall areportraits of many notable men and relics of theRevolution. Of the many sky-scrapers mention will be madeof but two, the Singer Building, at Broadway andLiberty Street, and the Metropolitan Building, atTwenty-third Street and Madison Square. Thetower on the former is 612 feet high, while the toweron the latter is fifty-two stories or 700 feet high. The United States Sub-Treasury, the site ofWashingtons first inauguration as President, islocated at Wall and Nassau Streets; WashingtonArch, Washington Square, foot of Fifth Avenue;Soldiers and Sailors Monument, a picture of whichappears on the cover of this book. Riverside Driveand Eighty-ninth Street; Metropolitan Museum ofArt, Central Park, opposite East Eighty-secondStreet; American Museum of Natural History, Cen-tral Park West and Seventy-seventh Street. The newest building to be opened to the publicis
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