Valentine's manual of old New York . oyeddistinction and becomes a sub-station of the newer gen-eral office back of the Pennsylvania Station. The fact isprimarily of interest as showing the gradual concentra-tion of postal facilities at the citys great railroad ter-minals. But it also reflects the drift of business up-town. As time goes in modern Manhattan, the old Post Officeis one of the boroughs venerable structures. Opened in1875, it is thus older than Brooklyn Bridge, itself a land-mark, and in the latter part of its near half-century ofexistence it had become antiquated and inadequate. A
Valentine's manual of old New York . oyeddistinction and becomes a sub-station of the newer gen-eral office back of the Pennsylvania Station. The fact isprimarily of interest as showing the gradual concentra-tion of postal facilities at the citys great railroad ter-minals. But it also reflects the drift of business up-town. As time goes in modern Manhattan, the old Post Officeis one of the boroughs venerable structures. Opened in1875, it is thus older than Brooklyn Bridge, itself a land-mark, and in the latter part of its near half-century ofexistence it had become antiquated and inadequate. As a sub-station and as a Federal Court House itdoubtless has a further usefulness. But when will NewYork lose its old Post Office altogether ? Having lost itsprestige, its eventual physical passing would cause no dis-satisfaction if that meant the return of the site to the cityand the restoration of City Hall Park to its original pro-portions. The ugly old structure could well be spared fora bit more of green turf in Broadway. [362]. Wall Street, IS60. One of the earliest photographs of this famous Street, showing private residence stoops and the Morgan corner at Broad Street. Collection of Mr. T. H. Schneider.
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