A home geography of New York city . 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 a
A home geography of New York city . 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, Desbrosses, Chambers,Cortlandt. Liberty,Whitehall, Wall, Ful-ton, East 23d, East34th, East 42d, East92d, and East of the streets inBrooklyn leading toimportant ferries are3 9th, Hamiltonavenue, Fulton street,. JNIoDEKN Double-Deck Fekryj5oat Broadway, and Greenpoint avenue. The East 34th street ferryleads to Long Island city andthe Long Island railroaddepot, Queens; the East 92dstreet ferry, to Astoria,Queens; and the East 99thstreet ferry, to College Point,<^Hieens. The ferries from thewest side of Manhattan leadto New Jersey, principally to railroad depots. The ferry from Whitehall street at the Battery leads to St. George, Richmond.
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