Valentine's city of New York; a guide book, with six maps and one hundred and sixty full page pictures . No city excels us in the frequency or rapidity of ourlocal transportation. We have surface cars on almostevery thoroughfare; a Subway and Elevated System onthe West Side and the same on the East. At 42nd Streetthere is a short line on which passengers may changefrom the East Side to the West, or vice versa, and con-tinue their journey without extra fare. There is alsoa Subway line on Broadway to which you can also trans-fer from the same connecting line. Other Subwaytrains, using these same
Valentine's city of New York; a guide book, with six maps and one hundred and sixty full page pictures . No city excels us in the frequency or rapidity of ourlocal transportation. We have surface cars on almostevery thoroughfare; a Subway and Elevated System onthe West Side and the same on the East. At 42nd Streetthere is a short line on which passengers may changefrom the East Side to the West, or vice versa, and con-tinue their journey without extra fare. There is alsoa Subway line on Broadway to which you can also trans-fer from the same connecting line. Other Subwaytrains, using these same tunnels, take you to Brooklyn,Long Island City and all the little towns in Brooklyn,as far as Coney Island. The fare to the latter pointis only 10 cents and the time about 40 minutes. Oneach Elevated and Subway station there is a coloredmap showing the different stations on the route youare going to take. Consult those maps for the stationyou Mdsh to get off at or ask the guard on the always calls out the name of the next station asthe car approaches. Stations are about six blocks apart 4. The house where Theodore Roosevelt was born—No. 28Twentieth Street. To be restored and kept as amemorial of the Great American East in local trains and a mile and a half on Expresses. All subway entrances on the street are plainly marked Up-town or Downtown. There are separate tracks for Express and Localtrains on the Subways, so look for the sign which pointsto the different tracks. Except on the Sixth AvenueElevated, the same system applies to the Third andNinth Avenues. Avoid travel between and M. and between and P. M. These are therush hours when the trains are packed to the limit. In all probability the average visitor who does not in-tend to go outside of New York will use one of the twomain Subway lines—the East or the West. They prac-tically cover every foot of the entire island and willget you anywhere. Assuming therefore that you arestaying in the
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