Two weeks vacation in New York, the nation's best summer resort . y, it is all changed. LowerFifth Avenue, below 23rd Street, is given over, inlarge part, to loft buildings and at noonday thestreets are filledwith piece-work-ers whose homeused to be onThird Avenue,or the of 23rdStreet, the re-lentless marchof business hascrowded out allthe old Knick-erbocker resi-dences, and, ex-cept for an oc-casional home or palace left there from the lastgeneration, Fifth Avenue is peopled with smartshops and large departmental stores whose nameswere historic in the lower part ofthe town fifty
Two weeks vacation in New York, the nation's best summer resort . y, it is all changed. LowerFifth Avenue, below 23rd Street, is given over, inlarge part, to loft buildings and at noonday thestreets are filledwith piece-work-ers whose homeused to be onThird Avenue,or the of 23rdStreet, the re-lentless marchof business hascrowded out allthe old Knick-erbocker resi-dences, and, ex-cept for an oc-casional home or palace left there from the lastgeneration, Fifth Avenue is peopled with smartshops and large departmental stores whose nameswere historic in the lower part ofthe town fifty years ago. To review this great thorough-fare in its general aspects, let usmake our starting-point at Wash-ington Square, about which, andparticularly on the north side ofwhich are the old homes of someof New Yorks most aristocraticand wealthy families. A mostpopular and thoroughly satisfy-ing way is to view Fifth Avenuefrom the top of a motor motor car may be hired atThe Obelisk ^ moderate cost, but from theCentral Park sight-seeing point of view, there. Vanderbilt House,58th St. and 5th Ave. jr^M^HHB 12
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