Valentine's city of New York; a guide book, with six maps and one hundred and sixty full page pictures . Dry Goods Hudson Street and to the river, Groceries, CannedGoods, Produce, Poultrv and other kindred lines con-gregate. Large loft buildings for manufacturing pur-poses of a heavy nature are frequent, and as you ap- 153 proach nearer to the Village, signs of persons living hereare discernible. Most of them have been driven out, butsome remain, and lately they have been joined by is little, hovrever, of interest except perhaps thesite of old St. Johns Church, which t
Valentine's city of New York; a guide book, with six maps and one hundred and sixty full page pictures . Dry Goods Hudson Street and to the river, Groceries, CannedGoods, Produce, Poultrv and other kindred lines con-gregate. Large loft buildings for manufacturing pur-poses of a heavy nature are frequent, and as you ap- 153 proach nearer to the Village, signs of persons living hereare discernible. Most of them have been driven out, butsome remain, and lately they have been joined by is little, hovrever, of interest except perhaps thesite of old St. Johns Church, which the cutting throughof Seventh Avenue, recently, has obliterated, till youstrike Greenwich Village and the beginning of FifthAvenue, at Washington Square. We have now covered the principal points in the down-town section. To get our exact bearing see map. Wehave drawn a straight line at Chambers Street fromEast to West, clear across the island. All the territorySouth of this line is what we have just been over. Weshall now go East from the City Hall to the great EastSide, Chinatown and the Bowery. 154. SOUTH Map Showing Down Town Section of New York from. Chambers Street, (Northern line); to BatteryPark, (Southern). NOTE. Broadway divides the city into two sections: Stand-ing anywhere on Broadway and looking North all the sidestreets on the right are referred to as the East side; on the leftall the streets are on the West side. Bear this in mind and itwill help you to locate yourself very easily. Looking North on Broadway is uptown; looking South isdowntown. The description begins at Battery Park and the Custom House,takes in the River front both East and West, goes up Broadwayto Wall Street, through Wall and the whole financial district;then back to Broadway and up to City Hall, ending at ChambersStreet. 155
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