New York . BROADWAY AT 32d STREET. At no other point in the city except perhaps at the entrance to Brooklyn Bridge is street traffic so congested from time totime as at this busy corner. Surface cars moving in rapid succession on both Broadway and Sixth Avenue and the vast army of pedestrians and vehicles makethis one of the most difficult crossings in New York. The view shows a station of the elevated road with entrances and exits and separate platforms for up-townand down-town trains. The elevated roads are now operated by electricity and consists of four main double-track lines and a few sh
New York . BROADWAY AT 32d STREET. At no other point in the city except perhaps at the entrance to Brooklyn Bridge is street traffic so congested from time totime as at this busy corner. Surface cars moving in rapid succession on both Broadway and Sixth Avenue and the vast army of pedestrians and vehicles makethis one of the most difficult crossings in New York. The view shows a station of the elevated road with entrances and exits and separate platforms for up-townand down-town trains. The elevated roads are now operated by electricity and consists of four main double-track lines and a few short BROADWAY FROM CHAMBERS STREET. The great avenue of NewYorks business life. No other street in America can show such activity, such avariety of architecture, such throngs of people. The surface cars follow eachother in a never-ending procession. Broadway starts at Bowling Green andextends to Yonkers, a distance of 14 miles. WALL STREET. The money center of America, the target of political tirades,the text for many a sermon. Fortunes made or lost every hour of the businessday. In the center of the view is Trinity Church, at which point Wall Streetbegins, extending to the East River. The low building at the right is the U. ; the skyscraper beyond, the Gillender Building.
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