Old New York yesterday & today . as spokesman at the Public Hearing beforethe Mayor and Board of Estimate. Few persons realize better than Governor Smithwhat this great improvement means not only to thewhole city but especially to the thousands of chil-dren who still live in this neighborhood and to whomat night, after business, this can be made a real recre-ation centre. Fountains, trees, grass, and flowers, willaddmuch to their pleasure and be ot tremendousvalue from a welfare point of view. On other pages we have given some interestingviews of the New Civic Centre as it was in bygonedays, b
Old New York yesterday & today . as spokesman at the Public Hearing beforethe Mayor and Board of Estimate. Few persons realize better than Governor Smithwhat this great improvement means not only to thewhole city but especially to the thousands of chil-dren who still live in this neighborhood and to whomat night, after business, this can be made a real recre-ation centre. Fountains, trees, grass, and flowers, willaddmuch to their pleasure and be ot tremendousvalue from a welfare point of view. On other pages we have given some interestingviews of the New Civic Centre as it was in bygonedays, but what is of greater importance we showwhat a beautiful place it will soon be when the newFederal Buildings adjoining the Court House areerected. New York, unlike our western cities, hasnot been so quick to realize just how great an assetbeauty is in City planning, but these pictures giveus some slight idea of its great possibilities and of itscommercial value. It is in this Civic Centre that thenew Post Office will be HENDRIK HUDSONThe first Navigator to land on Maniiattan Island and to sail upthe river which now bears his name. In a subsequent voyage Hud-son was turned adrift in an open boat, in the Arctic Seas by muti-nous sailors and never heard of again. He was born in of birth and death both unknown.
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