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Ebook by way of during this illustrated selection of manhattan urban lore, excerpts from the works of Truman Capote and A. J. Liebling stand facet by way of part with decisions from Washington Irving and Charles Dickens. In all, a few one hundred fifty writers and artists are represented, together with Thomas Wolfe, Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, James Baldwin, Henry Miller, Piri Thomas, O. Henry and F. Scott Fitzgerald, even supposing a number of the decisions are too short to be absolutely liked. one of the lesser-known fabric are an excerpt from W. Parker Chase's terrific manhattan, the sweetness urban, in addition to a nineteenth century grievance approximately gridlock and an 1839 consultant to manhattan brothels (thinly disguised as an ethical Reform listing. yet with few exceptionsJohn Sloan, George Bellows and Charles Sheeler, between themthe caliber of the portraits during this assortment seldom is the same as the extent of the textual content. Browsers will benefit from the ebook still.
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Woolworth Building. the old Waldorf. until we come to this, the perfect jewel carefully fixed in the last waiting bezel in the diadem which will crown this city. the Varney . . "How eloquent, Mr. " . of The spires of churches, once the tallest things to be seen in the City, now were no more than gray or brown splinters. The pleasant uniformities of nineteenth-century builders, their private architectural idiosyncrasies, their bits of derivative Greek, or ignorant Renaissance, or Gothic or Baroque, or Beaux Arts, their mingling of a dozen different styles were what had risen on the ashes had no past.
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And the sparkling stores: Saks, Tiffany's, Jensens; and the big, old soiled-white library at the corner of Forty-second Street, its stone lions flanking the wide steps of its main entrance. They must be the most famous seventeen blocks of the world, and beyond them even farther down the length of that astonishing street, the unbelievable height of the Empire State Building at Thirty-fourth Street, if the air should happen to be miraculously clear enough to see it.