. Illustrated New York city and surroundings. A descriptive guide to places of interest. nse bazars of E. Ridley & Sons and Lord & Taylor with the accom-panying smaller stores, makes it a formidable rival of the Bowery itself. EAST SIDE AVENUES. East of Second Avenue between Houston and 14th Streets is often calledGermany. Avenue A (Dutch Broadway), is the main the German language is spoken almost exclusively, the signs are Ger-man, aud everything has a decidedly Teutonic appearance. There is verylittle of interest to strangers east of Avenue A. SECOND AVENUE. Second Avenue b
. Illustrated New York city and surroundings. A descriptive guide to places of interest. nse bazars of E. Ridley & Sons and Lord & Taylor with the accom-panying smaller stores, makes it a formidable rival of the Bowery itself. EAST SIDE AVENUES. East of Second Avenue between Houston and 14th Streets is often calledGermany. Avenue A (Dutch Broadway), is the main the German language is spoken almost exclusively, the signs are Ger-man, aud everything has a decidedly Teutonic appearance. There is verylittle of interest to strangers east of Avenue A. SECOND AVENUE. Second Avenue begins at East Houston Street, and continues in a straightline to Harlem River. The lower portion of the avenue is given to sub-stantial residences of the old families ofNew York, At the corner of 8th Street isthe Free German Library and the northeast corner of 10th Street isthe Baptist Tabernacle, St. Marks Churchon the corner of Stuy-vesant Place, is a quaintold structure erected in1794. Among the m anydistinguished person-ages who have beenburied in the church. Residence Riverside Drive. FROM (UILDINQ. IlCustrated Guide to Kew York City. S5 yard are Petrus Stuyvesant, the last Dutch governor ; Col. Slaughter, (oneof the old English governors), Commodore Perry, and Admiral was from here that the body of A. T. Stewart was stolen. The tomb islocated near the centre of the yard facing Second Avenue. On the southeast corner 11th Street is the New York Historical SocietyBuilding. On the southwest corner of 14th Street is the 14th Street Pres-byterian Church. From 15th to 17th Streets is Stuyvesant Square. Thelarge church fronting on the Square is St. Georges (Episcopal). Adjoining,in the rear, is the Memorial House erected in 1888, from funds provided byCharles and Louisa Tracy. The upper portion of the Avenue is devoted to manufactories, etc., whichare of little interest to strangers.
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