Identifier: oldnewyorkyester00brow (find matches)
Title: Old New York yesterday & today
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Brown, Henry Collins, 1862-1961
Subjects: Historic buildings
Publisher: New York : Priv. print for Valentine's Manual and to be sold at the Sign of the Dog and Duck
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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CLlic ifautnus (Lmitiur Cnffce Hmtst, rnnttr JUall aiib ^iUater ^tretts This coffee house, the building on the left, played a prominent part in the development of the financial district. From it sprang the Merchants Exchange and it was the forerunner of all the other Exchanges. It succeeded the Merchants Coffee House, perhaps the most famous tavern New York ever possessed. From ihr only knotvn paintine by Francis Guy (ljg6) in possrssion of thi New York Historical Socirly
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^^tcta of ilrnaMuay in IS20, sliotutitg (Srarc (Cljurrlt Cljapcl, abjotning ©riuitu Qlhurclt A most interesting and contemporaneous view of Broadway while it was still a fashionable residential section.Grace Church moved uptown to Tenth Street fifteen or twenty years later. The Empire building, 71 Broadway,headquarters of the United States Steel Corporation, occupies the Grace Chapel site today,and both sides are lined with huge skyscrapers. Courltsy NfW York Hislorical Socirly

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