New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . Knickerbocker; and in the central part of the city the Gramercy Park,Anglesea, , Florence, Westmoreland, Douglas, Beeclnvood, and last, but not least in size or beauty,the bachelor ajjartment houses Croisie, Benedict and Alpine. The Tenement Houses, which tell of tiie dark side of New York City, are dotted on nearly all the streetsbelow Fourteenth Street. They hang on to the edges of both rivers, east and west, and reach up as far as Fifty-ninth Street. In these cheaply constructed buildings, the squalor and mi
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . Knickerbocker; and in the central part of the city the Gramercy Park,Anglesea, , Florence, Westmoreland, Douglas, Beeclnvood, and last, but not least in size or beauty,the bachelor ajjartment houses Croisie, Benedict and Alpine. The Tenement Houses, which tell of tiie dark side of New York City, are dotted on nearly all the streetsbelow Fourteenth Street. They hang on to the edges of both rivers, east and west, and reach up as far as Fifty-ninth Street. In these cheaply constructed buildings, the squalor and inseparable to a great city arehidden, and in some sections the tenants are packed together at the rate of many thousands to the square. Having taken the explorer through princii)al business and amusement thoroughfares of the city, and ten-derly guided him over the abodes of poverty and vice, it will be well to return once more to all that is brightand pleasing. Fifth Avenue, the splendid residence .street of the city, the abode of the aristocrat and the mil-. xlii NEW YORK, THE METROPOLIS. lionaire, is pre-eminently the finest avenue in the country; it rivals Broadway in big hotels, and it far outvies it inclubs, churches, and the residences of wealth and luxury. Fifth Avenue extends from Washington Squarefor four miles northward. Taking its public buildings and beginning at the Park, there are the splendid Metro-politan Museum of Art, containing a magnificent collection of paintings, statues, and ancient relics loaned andpresented by prominent and wealthy citizens, the Lenox Library, St. Lukes Hospital, the Roman CatholicOrphan Asylum, and lower down Chickering Hall. The most recently erected structures are the Judge Build-ing, Methodist Book Concern, and the Mohawk Building. The private residences and millionaires palaces are unsurpassed by any other avenue in the them are Robert L. Stuarts mansion, the splendid homes of Henry O. Havemeyer, William Rocke-fe
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