A home geography of New York city . Bowling Green 80 HOME GEOGEAPHY OF NEW YORK CITY Park, and enters Yonkers at the city boundary line. The Bowerypractically begins at the Brooklyn bridge under the name of ParkRow. It takes a slightly diagonal course and ends at Coopersquare ; there it joins 3d avenue. Both Broadway and the Bowerywere post roads in colonial times. The Bowery and 3d avenue were the Boston post 4il!filfim. Cuowjj IX TAitK How road, and Broadwaywas the Albany postroad. Strangers comingto our city find theirway easily in Manhat-tan, but not so readilyin Brooklyn. Why ?Fulton stre
A home geography of New York city . Bowling Green 80 HOME GEOGEAPHY OF NEW YORK CITY Park, and enters Yonkers at the city boundary line. The Bowerypractically begins at the Brooklyn bridge under the name of ParkRow. It takes a slightly diagonal course and ends at Coopersquare ; there it joins 3d avenue. Both Broadway and the Bowerywere post roads in colonial times. The Bowery and 3d avenue were the Boston post 4il!filfim. Cuowjj IX TAitK How road, and Broadwaywas the Albany postroad. Strangers comingto our city find theirway easily in Manhat-tan, but not so readilyin Brooklyn. Why ?Fulton street is theprincipal street ofBrooklyn. On or nearit are large department stores, theaters, restaurants, and hotels. Inthe part of Brooklyn immediately west of Prospect Park and extend-ing southwestward the streets and avenues are numbered. South ofProspect Park the avenues are known by letters. Broadway, begin-ning at the Broadway ferry, is also an important street. In The Bronx we find 3d avenue and Broadway as a contin-uation of those streets of Manhattan. 3d avenue is the princi-pal business avenue. There we find many retail stores and placesof amusement. The chief streets in Queens are Jackson andFlushing avenues. Several important avenues of Brooklyn arecontinued in Queens. BROADWAY AND THE 81 Ferries. Some of the streets in Manhattan leading to importantferries are West 42d, West 23d, Christopher, Des
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