Valentine's city of New York; a guide book, with six maps and one hundred and sixty full page pictures . sly up a trestle to a towering coal heap containingthousands of other tons and are emptied huge pile never seems to change. Notwithstand-ing the constant additions by the never-ending line offresh supplies there is a counter effect in the deliveriesto boats, lighters, etc., at the water edge which equalizesthings. Resuming our interrupted walk, we come to the 23rdStreet Ferries just above the Chelsea docks. Most ofthe boats are still running except the y
Valentine's city of New York; a guide book, with six maps and one hundred and sixty full page pictures . sly up a trestle to a towering coal heap containingthousands of other tons and are emptied huge pile never seems to change. Notwithstand-ing the constant additions by the never-ending line offresh supplies there is a counter effect in the deliveriesto boats, lighters, etc., at the water edge which equalizesthings. Resuming our interrupted walk, we come to the 23rdStreet Ferries just above the Chelsea docks. Most ofthe boats are still running except the you connect with the Central, Erie and Lacka-wanna roads to Jersey City. The passenger traffic, however, now goes by the Hud-son Tubes, the ferries being mostly for vehicles. Itremains, nevertheless, an important transit point thoughrobbed of much of its former bustle and would hardlybe recognized by the old New Yorker who recalls thedays of its bygone <r\ory when it was one of the busiestparts of town, especially in summer at week ends. Justbeyond 2Srd Street are more Atlantic steamships—the 53. Anchor Line, the Southern Pacific, the French andItalian lines, the Pacific Mail and Panama Steamers;the principal pier of the beautiful Albany Day Lineboats and the swift steamers to Atlantic Highlands,Long Branch and Jersey Coast resorts. Here ends that stretch of the marginal street calledWest, paralleling the river called North, which isntnorth at all, as we have explained. Beyond this, thestreet becomes Tenth Avenue. As if to recall its olddays as the shore road to Greenwich, it meanders offas all good shore roads do, into the heart of town, for-saking the turmoil and commercialism of the reappears, resplendent in new asphalt and handsomearchitecture as Amsterdam Avenue—again reminiscentof Colonial days—and makes a glorious exit in thesanctity of the classic atmosphere of Columbia Uni-versity and Cathedral Heights. There is also considerable shipping on the o
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