New York by sunlight and gaslight : a work descriptive of the great American metropolis ; its high and low life; its splendors and miseries; its virtu . cottage, con-taining toilet rooms for ladies and children on the mainfloor, and accommodations for gentlemen in the base-ment. A broad plaza borders the Square on thenorthern side, along 17th street, and here is arrangeda long row of ornamental gas-lamps, which on specialoccasions illuminate the Square. Along the southernborder, or 14th street side, are statues of Washington,Lafayette, and UNION SQUARE. 427 Union Square lies in the c
New York by sunlight and gaslight : a work descriptive of the great American metropolis ; its high and low life; its splendors and miseries; its virtu . cottage, con-taining toilet rooms for ladies and children on the mainfloor, and accommodations for gentlemen in the base-ment. A broad plaza borders the Square on thenorthern side, along 17th street, and here is arrangeda long row of ornamental gas-lamps, which on specialoccasions illuminate the Square. Along the southernborder, or 14th street side, are statues of Washington,Lafayette, and UNION SQUARE. 427 Union Square lies in the centre of one of the busiestand brightest portions of New York. Broadwaysweeps around it, with its rows of magnificent buildings,and the 14th street and Fourth avenue sides rival thegreat thoroughfare in their grand edifices. The south-east corner of Broadway and 14th street is marked bythe Union Place Hotel, next door to which is the UnionSquare Theatre, and immediately opposite, acrossBroadway, towers the superb iron building of the Do-mestic Sewing Machine Company. On the east side^facing on Fourth avenue, are the Union Square andClarendon Hotels ; the Everett House faces the Squareon 17th street, and on Broadway are Tiffanys and sev -eral of the finest stores in the city. Everything isbright and lively. Crowds line the sidewalks of thestreets surrounding the Square, and pour along itsbroad walks, by day and night; and after nightfallthe dazzling rays of the electric lights illuminate thepretty grounds, with a brilliancy almost equal to th
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