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Title: Valentine's manual of old New York
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Brown, Henry Collins, 1862-1961
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Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Valentine's Manual Inc.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Passing of the Old Post Office. To-day the General Post Office loses its long-enjoyed distinction and becomes a sub-station of the newer general office back of the Pennsylvania Station. The fact is primarily of interest as showing the gradual concentration of postal facilities at the city's great railroad terminals. But it also reflects the drift of business "up-town". As time goes in modern Manhattan, the old Post Office is one of the borough's venerable structures. Opened in 1875, it is thus older than Brooklyn Bridge, itself a landmark, and in the latter part of its near half-century of existence it had become antiquated and inadequate. As a sub-station and as a Federal Court House it doubtless has a further usefulness. But when will New York lose its old Post Office altogether? Having lost its prestige, its eventual physical passing would cause no dissatisfaction if that meant the return of the site to the city and the restoration of City Hall Park to its original proportions. The ugly old structure could well be spared for a bit more of green turf in Broadway. (362)
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Wall Street, 1860. One of the earliest photographs of this famous Street, showing private residence stoops and the Morgan corner at Broad Street. Collection of Mr. T. H. Schneider.

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