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Title: How to know New York City : a serviceable and trustworthy guide, having its starting point at the Grand Union hotel, just across the street from the Grand Central depot
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster), 1848-1897 Ford, Simeon, 1855-1933 Durst, Seymour B., 1913- former owner. NNC
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Publisher: New York : Press of J.J. Little & Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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ets and Avenues A and B, surrounded by oneof the most overcrowded tenement regions of the East side. Bryant Park is a pleasant open space, between 40th Street and 42c!Street, and Sixth Avenue and the Reservoir, which received itspresent nam«J in 1884, in honor of William Cullen Bryant. On thissite the world-renowned Crystal Palace stood in those far-away daysbefore the war. It is now a favorite resort of West-side children. Morningside Park, a long-drawn and nearly unimproved publicground of 47 acres, extends from 110th Street to 123d Street, near TenthAvenue, and has a costly and far-viewing driveway. It lies on theeast, or morning, side of the ridge which separates Harlem plainsfrom the Riverside Park and Hudson River. Mount Morris Square surrounds a bold, rocky hill, by which eventhe lordly Fifth Avenue is stopped, in the environs of Harlem. Itabounds in maples, tulip-trees, oaks, etc.; and from the plaza nearthe fire-alarm tower, on the crest of the hill, a broad view is enjoyed.
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How to Know Nczv York. 39 ART-GALLERIES. Metropolitan Museum of Art, recently enlarged, in Central Park,near Fifth Avenue and 83d Street. 25 cents entrance on Mondaysand Fridays, but free other days, including Sundays. A great col-lection of Dutch and Flemish pictures, and other European worksof art. It may be reached by Elevated Railway from the GrandUnion Hotel, to the station at Third Avenue and 84th Street, orby the Madison-avenue electric cars. The first movement towardsfounding the Museum was made in i86g, and for some years itscollections were kept in rented buildings down town (14th Street).The present fireproof brick and granite modern-Gothic buildingwas dedicated in 1880, by the President of the United States. Itis 233 by 224 feet in area ; and new structures are being built inconnection, so that in time it will be one of the greatest art-museumsin the world. Space fails to tell of the beauties of these varied andextensive collections, numbering many thousands of pieces. Pam

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