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... the coachmen and footmen flock there 56
The Church of the Heavenly Rest 57
Approaching St. Thomas's 59
The University Club ... with college coats-of-arms 60
Olympia Jackies on shore leave 61
Down near the eastern end of the street 65
Across Trinity Church-yard, from the West 67
An Evening View of St. Paul's Church 69
The sights and smells of the water-front are here too 71
An Old Landmark on the Lower West Side 73
Up Beekman Street 75
Each ... has to change in the greatest possible hurry from block to block.
Under the Approach to Brooklyn Bridge 77
Chinatown 79
It still remains whimsically individual and village-like 81
A Fourteenth Street Tree 83
Such as broad Twenty-third Street with its famous shops 85
A Cross Street at Madison Square 87
Across Twenty-fourth Street--Madison Square when the Dewey Arch was there 88
Herald Square 91
As it Looks on a Wet Night--The Circle, Fifty-ninth Street and Eighth Avenue 93
Hideous high buildings 95
Looking east from Central Park at night.
Flushing Volunteer Fire Department Responding to a Fire Alarm 103
A Bit of Farm Land in the Heart of Greater New York 105
Acre after acre, farm after farm, and never a sign of city in sight.
One of the Farmhouses that have Come to Town 107
The old Duryea House, Flushing, once used as a head-quarters for Hessian officers.
East End of Duryea House, where the Cow is Stabled 108
The Old Water-power Mill from the Rear of the Old Country Cross-roads Store 109
The Old Country Cross-roads Store, Established 1828 110
In the background is the old water-power mill.
Interior of the Old Country Cross-roads Store 111
The Colony of Chinese Farmers, Near the Geographical Centre of New York City 112
Working as industrially as the peasants of Europe, blue skirts, red handkerchiefs about their heads 113
Remains of a Windmill in New York City, Between Astoria and Steinway 114
The Dreary Edge of Long Island City 115
The Procession of Market-wagons at College Point Ferry 116
Past dirty backyards and sad vacant lots 117
New York City Up in the Beginnings of the Bronx Regions--Skating at Bronxdale 119
Another Kind of City Life--Along the Marshes of Jamaica Bay 121
There is profitable oyster-dredging in several sections of the city 123
Cemetery Ridge, Near Richmond, Staten Island 126
A Peaceful Scene in New York 127
In the distance is St. Andrew's Church, Borough of Richmond, Staten Island.
A Relic of the Early Nineteenth Century, Borough of Richmond 128
An Old-fashioned, Stone-arched Bridge. 129
An Old House in Flatbush 131
THE WATER-FRONT
THE WATER-FRONT
Down along the Battery sea-wall is the place to watch the ships go by.
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