. Hudson & Manhattan tunnels : uniting New York and New Jersey in picture and story. . ple of the American metropolis, during his seven years residence in the City ofNew York. Hudson Terminal Buildings. There has been reared, also, two twenty-two storybuildings, known as the Hudson Terminal Buildings which are of fire-proof twin con-struction, and cover nearly two city blocks at Cortlandt, Dey, Fulton and Church are located the terminals of the two great southern twin tubes to Jersey City, andit will be but a short time when these tubes will be opened to the public. This building
. Hudson & Manhattan tunnels : uniting New York and New Jersey in picture and story. . ple of the American metropolis, during his seven years residence in the City ofNew York. Hudson Terminal Buildings. There has been reared, also, two twenty-two storybuildings, known as the Hudson Terminal Buildings which are of fire-proof twin con-struction, and cover nearly two city blocks at Cortlandt, Dey, Fulton and Church are located the terminals of the two great southern twin tubes to Jersey City, andit will be but a short time when these tubes will be opened to the public. This building goes on record as the largest office structure in existence, containingas it does, in its twenty-two stories, eighteen and a half millions of square feet (ormore than twenty-nine acres) of floor space, affording comfortable accommodations forover ten thousand office tenants. These twin buildings are respectively officially desig-nated as the Fulton, and the Cortlandt, and are joined by an iron bridge across Deystreet, affording easy communication between the two mammoth As we onward speed, we can view the construction of the tube, and observe on the left a splicing chamber. About thirty feet below the street level are located the loop and station platformswhere one thousand persons a minute, or five hundred thousand people a day can easilybe handled. Just above this floor is located what is known as the concourse, wherea restaurant, lunch counter, flower booth, telephone booth, telegraph stand, newspaperkiosk, bootblack stand, and other modern railroad conveniences will be established. Fifty-two elevators afford prompt, comfortable, safe, and easy access to the variousfloors, already rented as offices to some of the largest of our American corpora-tions, among which may be mentioned the American Steel Company, while the FederalGovernment has engaged about an acre of space on the first and second floors for theNew York Post Office as a receiving and forwarding stati
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