. Treat's illustrated New York, Philadelphia and surroundings . wing year 740 men were em-ployed in its construction. It beginsat Fifty-ninth-street, and extends toOne Hundred and Fifty-fifth-street, adistance of five miles. It is 150 feetwide, with a narrow line of shrubberyand flowers extending through the cen-ter. The bed of the street is graveled,rolled, and the surface otherwise im-proved. Avenue St. Nicholas, (formerlyHarlem Lane,) as a popular drive is therival of the Grand Boulevard. There are many public and privatedrives around the suburbs of New York,where men of means and leisure t
. Treat's illustrated New York, Philadelphia and surroundings . wing year 740 men were em-ployed in its construction. It beginsat Fifty-ninth-street, and extends toOne Hundred and Fifty-fifth-street, adistance of five miles. It is 150 feetwide, with a narrow line of shrubberyand flowers extending through the cen-ter. The bed of the street is graveled,rolled, and the surface otherwise im-proved. Avenue St. Nicholas, (formerlyHarlem Lane,) as a popular drive is therival of the Grand Boulevard. There are many public and privatedrives around the suburbs of New York,where men of means and leisure try themettle of their steeds. Among the mostfamous are Jerome Park, near FordhamFleetwood, at Morrisania; the grounds atPaterson, New Jersey; and those elsewhere described, near Coney Island. The Presbyterian Hospital, Madison Avenue and lOth-street. This Institution is largely indebted to the princely liberality of James Lenox,Esq., who gave $500,000 toward the site and buildings, which were completed in1872. It has accommodations for three hundred Presbyterian Home for Aged Women, Madison Ave. and ISd-street Aged women of the Presbyterian, Congregational, and Reformed Churches ofNew York city share in the benefits of this Institution. This elegant structure \f>fireproof; cost, exclusive of site, $125,000; has accommodations for one hundredsnd fiftv. and is beautifully located near Central Park. AND PHILADELPHIA. 19 Sight Seeing in New York. So varied are the tastes of individualsthat a definite tour of observation equal-ly pleasing and profitable to all can-not be suggested. We mention a few,and. leave the reader, whose time maybe limited, to make selections accord-ing to his studies or curiosity. To ob-tain some general idea of its busiest por-tion no better method can be desired thanto take a Broadway stage at Twenty-third-street for South Ferry or Wall-street that you are in fact geograph-ically down town at Twenty-third-street and Madison Squa
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