Identifier: scenesofmodernne00durs (find matches)
Title: Scenes of modern New York.
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC L.H. Nelson Company
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Publisher: Portland, Me. : L.H. Nelson
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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BROADWAY FROM CHAMBERS STREET. The great avenue of New Yorks WALL STREET. The money center of America, the text for political tirades, the business life. No cither street iii America pan show such activity, such a variety of target for many a sermon. Fortunes made or lost every hour of the business day. architecture, such throngs of people. The surface cars follow each other in a never- In the (tenter of the view is Trinity Church, at which point Wall Street begins, ex- ending procession. Broadway starts at Bowling Green and extends to Yonkers, a tending to the East Kiver. The low building at the right is the U. S. Suli-treasury; distance of 14 miles. the skyscraper beyond, the Gillender Building.
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THE BOWERY. A thoroughfare of world-wide fame. It derived its name from the houweries or farms between which it ran during the old Dutch days. Inlatter years the lower end grew to be a series of dives, saloons, shows, etc., and became the favorite resort of a tough element. Here the peculiar type of swag-gering ruffian, the Bowery boy, was developed. The street has lost much of its former bad repute, and the boy has disappeared. The milder young toughsof today are in turn giving way to the frugal and good-natured (lerman and Jew. Better shops are being opened year by year. The Bowery now boasts the largestsavings bank in the world.

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