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Title: What to see in New York
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: John Wanamaker (Firm)
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Publisher: New York, J. Wanamaker
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ionprospective citizens are annually received Some conception of the amount of businesstransacted in New York may be gained by notingthe value of imports and exports for 1909, amount-ing to $1,677,575,134. Nearly 815,000 immigrants arrived at this portduring the year ending June 30, 1911. The police force of the greater city is composedof about ten thousand men, quite enough to make afair-sized city in themselves. The most efficient firedepartment in the world, with more than fourthousand men, is maintained throughout the city. While New York is surpassed in population byone other world capital, the business supremacy ofNew York makes the city the worlds greatestmetropolis. FAMOUS STREETS. Of the many famous thoroughfares in this metrop-olis Broadway is perhaps best known. By day it isa fifteen-mile ravine crowded with a mass of human-ity. At night from the Battery to Twenty-thirdStreet it is as quiet as any street in a small town, butbeyond Twenty-third Street and up as far as Fifty-
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ninth Street it is a canon of light and undoubtedlythe most brilliant thoroughfare in the world.Thousands of ingenious electric display signs onsides of buildings and housetops begin to flare fromearly until late at night. Broadway may be calledversatile, inasmuch as it has its steamship, financial,jewelry, dry goods, mercantile, legal and theatricalsections. Fifth Avenue, once a symbol of wealth and glory,where it was commonly believed that none but mil-lionaires in brownstone houses resided, is slowlybut surely developing into a business thoroughfare.Every year any number of old mansions are razedand lofty office buildings erected on the same sites.A good view of the avenue may be had from the topof one of the Fifth Avenue omnibuses. Some ofthe Vanderbilts, Goulds, and other wealthy familiesstill maintain their winter homes on the avenue, andin the regions above Fifty-ninth Street are some ofthe most sumptuous apartment houses in the world. Wall Street, the center of the financial d

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