Discover New York with Henry Hope Reed, : a series of well-mapped walking tours, reprinted from the pages of the New York Herald Tribune . architects of the 69thRegiment Armory, the station offers a rare form ofrustication: The stones are pulvinated, or cushion-shaped, as found on the Palazzo Riccadi in building is, in truth, a miniature Tuscanpalace, with such Italian Renaissance details as theboiled leather shield over the door bearing the citysarms. Directly to the north of it is the UnitedStates Assay Office, where the Federal governmentmelts and assays silver and gold.
Discover New York with Henry Hope Reed, : a series of well-mapped walking tours, reprinted from the pages of the New York Herald Tribune . architects of the 69thRegiment Armory, the station offers a rare form ofrustication: The stones are pulvinated, or cushion-shaped, as found on the Palazzo Riccadi in building is, in truth, a miniature Tuscanpalace, with such Italian Renaissance details as theboiled leather shield over the door bearing the citysarms. Directly to the north of it is the UnitedStates Assay Office, where the Federal governmentmelts and assays silver and gold. A high granitechimney rises above its granite facade. Now the tour goes south on Front Street, wheresome of the Greek Revival warehouses, built afterthe Fire of 1835, still survive. They are easilyrecognized by the granite posts and lintels of thefirst story. At 46 Front, the National QuotationBureau, the assiduous tabulator of the daily pricesof over-the-counter securities, has kept its oldbuilding in excellent condition. Front Street leads into Coenties Slip, its namepresumed to be a corruption of the first names of a 12 COTTONEXCHANGE. 1JEANNETTEPARK Ken Fitzgerald From the imposing Cotton Exchange tower, route windsto the old shoreline at Old Slip and Coenties Slip. Dutch couple, Conraet and Anje Ten Eycke, whoonce lived nearby. A slip originally was formed bya small body of water which came up between twowharves. The slips run up a considerable way inthe center of the buildings, as it were in the middleof the streets, runs a description of 1823, whichalso serves to define the term: ... and being builtor faced up with logs . .. allow free ingress andegress to the water, and, being completely out of thecurrent of the stream or tide, are little else thanstagnant receptacles of city filth; while the top ofthe wharves exhibits one continuous mass of clottednuisance, composed of dust, tea, oil, molasses etc.,where revel countless swarms of flies. Not sur-prisingly, the slips wer
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