Old New York yesterday & today . ColUcticn of Mr. Simconjord ^ack J^0&i, Srooklgtt ^rthge nnh ^rmtmg ^ouse Square, 1S62 Here is an excellent view of Printing House Square in the days of Greeley, Dana, Raymond and Jones. The Post Office was not yet built and the view to St. Pauls Church was unobstructed. This picture wa^ taken in 1862, when troops were leaving every day for the war. Most of the newspapers have tiow moved Charles T. Harvey, President of the first Elevated Railroad, the West Side & Yonkers Patented R. R. (now Ninth Avenue), demonstrating that a car would not fall off the

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Old New York yesterday & today . ColUcticn of Mr. Simconjord ^ack J^0&i, Srooklgtt ^rthge nnh ^rmtmg ^ouse Square, 1S62 Here is an excellent view of Printing House Square in the days of Greeley, Dana, Raymond and Jones. The Post Office was not yet built and the view to St. Pauls Church was unobstructed. This picture wa^ taken in 1862, when troops were leaving every day for the war. Most of the newspapers have tiow moved Charles T. Harvey, President of the first Elevated Railroad, the West Side & Yonkers Patented R. R. (now Ninth Avenue), demonstrating that a car would not fall off the track, 1868. Mr. Gerehardt, third from the right, is still actively employed in the Interborough Company. Yonkers men are entitled to the credit of the first attempt at rapid transit in New York.

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