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Title: The new New York : a commentary on the place and the people
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932 Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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eet pass infrequently,and the cab is not often seen. The trolley clangs alongBroadway and the elevated continues to roar fromChurch Street, but otherwise the stillness is almost pro-found. Especially is this true of Wall and Broad streets,where in the daytime thousands are coming and going.What silence under the walls of the great sky-scrapers!And what shadows those twenty-story buildings cast downinto the narrow streets ! The electric shaft flashes up intothem, piercing them here and there, but not annihilatingthem. Along the cornices and stringcourses and bottle-shaped cupolas they still linger. Around Old Trinity at the head of the street, with itswell-like area, the shadows gather deeper and even moremysteriously. The giant sky-scrapers about it impose theirpurple silhouettes one upon another until everythinglooks a little out of focus and uncertain in dimensions.Goblin shapes spread upward on the night veil, or dance likespecters on the flat-faced walls, while possibly around the
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Pl. 4.5. — Sherman Statue — Evening NEW YORK BY NIGHT 209 top of the well runs a series of sparkles and glitters struckoff by the moonlight falling upon peaks and pinnacles. Broadway seems lighter than the other streets of thelower city, owing no doubt to the continuous string oftrolleys that run there. And the trolleys with their lightsseem to lead but one way, and that up town. Perhapsit is the human moths moving in that direction that giveone such an impression, but certainly there is the feelingthat the grand fireworks are somewhere under the reflect-ing sky of the upper city. At Union Square there isapparently an increase in the power of the lights (an illu-sion, no doubt), on Fifth Avenue an increase in theirnumbers; but the central illumination of all is on upperBroadway, in the theater district. Beyond that toSeventy-Second Street, along Amsterdam and West Endavenues and Riverside Drive, around Columbia Universityand along the Harlem River, even creeping across thebridges

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