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Read Ebook: New York Sketches by Williams Jesse Lynch

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Ebook has 385 lines and 62447 words, and 8 pages

... 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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