. Scenes of modern New York . LOOKING NORTH FROM 23d STREET. View looking up Broadway to the left and 5th Avenue to the right from the Flat Iron Building at 23d than half a century ago this was largely a country district. The Times Building towers at the distant curve of Broadway almost obscured by the nearer hugebulk of the Hoffman House. The Waldorf shows prominently in the middle distance of 5th Avenue. This view includes the busiest hotel and shopping districtof the great BROADWAY AT 32d STREET. At no other point in the city except perhaps at the entrance to Brookl
. Scenes of modern New York . LOOKING NORTH FROM 23d STREET. View looking up Broadway to the left and 5th Avenue to the right from the Flat Iron Building at 23d than half a century ago this was largely a country district. The Times Building towers at the distant curve of Broadway almost obscured by the nearer hugebulk of the Hoffman House. The Waldorf shows prominently in the middle distance of 5th Avenue. This view includes the busiest hotel and shopping districtof the great BROADWAY AT 32d STREET. At no other point in the city except perhaps at the entrance to Brooklyn Bridge is street traffic so congested from time totime as at this busy corner. Surface cars moving in rapid succession on both Broadway and Sixth Avenue and the vast army of pedestrians and vehicles makethis one of the most difficult crossings in New York. The view shows a station of the elevated road with entrances and exits and separate platforms for up-townand down-town trains. The elevated roads are now operated by electricity and consist of four main double-track lines and a few short branches.
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