. Illustrated New York city and surroundings. A descriptive guide to places of interest. ublic meetings. The present building is to betorn down to make room for a new structure. Park Avenue Hotel is at 32d Street, and from 34th Street to 42d Street,over the hill, is called Park Avenue, At 34th Street is the Church of theMessiah (Unitarian); at 35th Street is the Church of the Covenant ; at 39tliStreet is the First Baptist Church. From 40th to 41st Streets is the palatialMurray Hill Hotel, and from 41st to 42d Streets, on the east side is theGrand Union Hotel. The Grand Central Depotmaterially
. Illustrated New York city and surroundings. A descriptive guide to places of interest. ublic meetings. The present building is to betorn down to make room for a new structure. Park Avenue Hotel is at 32d Street, and from 34th Street to 42d Street,over the hill, is called Park Avenue, At 34th Street is the Church of theMessiah (Unitarian); at 35th Street is the Church of the Covenant ; at 39tliStreet is the First Baptist Church. From 40th to 41st Streets is the palatialMurray Hill Hotel, and from 41st to 42d Streets, on the east side is theGrand Union Hotel. The Grand Central Depotmaterially interferes with theprogress of the avenue at thispoint, the avenue stoppingabruptly in front of the building, and commencing again at50th Street, eight blocks fartheron. From 34th to 42d Streetsthe avenue is tunneled, whichwas originally done to allow thetrains of the N. Y. & N. H.,and Harlem Roads to proceedto the depot, then at 28th series of open cuts and tun-nels continue from 42d Street tothe Harlem River. From 49th-to 50th Streets, west side, is•Columbia 30 Illustrated Guide to JSTew York City. I The block opposite is occupied by the Womens Hospital, incorporatedin 1857. The upper ward free to residents of New York State, to othersan entrance fee of twenty-six dollars is required. The Seventh Regiment Armory occupiesI the entire Square between 66th and 67tli Streets, Lexington and 4th Avenues, and isprobably the finest armory building in theworld. It is a red brick building withgranite facings. The rooms are elegantlyfinished in hard wood. There are ten company rooms, a boardof officers room, a veterans room, alibrary and reading room, a reception room,a field and staff room, a gymnasium, anadjutants room, a non-commissioned staffroom, a colonels room,a memorial room, sixsquad drill rooms, and arifle range 300 feet inlength, in the main drill room is200x800 feet, the largestin the United admitted on ap-plication to the jan
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