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Title: New York by sunlight and gaslight : a work descriptive of the great American metropolis ; its high and low life; its splendors and miseries; its virtu
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: McCabe, James D., 1842-1883.
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Publisher: New York : Union Publishing House
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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il a fortunate change in their businesssends them to better-arranged quarters. It has beensaid that Nassau street is a good place to hide in, andit would seem that in the thousand and one estab-lishments with which the tall buildings on the streetare filled, one might very easily slip out of observationand be forgotten. You wonder, indeed, how personshaving business with the occupants of these dens everfind them. This characteristic of the street renders ita favorite place with persons who carry on unlawfultrades, and do business by means of circulars, and un-der assumed names. Pine street extends from Broadway eastward, imme-diately north of Wall street. It is a narrow thorough-fare, but between Nassau street and Broadway is linedwith noble structures occupied by banks and corporateinstitutions. These buildings are so tall that the streetis always in shadow. At the head of the street, inTrinity churchyard, rises the Martyrs monument. Two of the busiest and most crowded streets in the
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NEW YORK. city are South and West streets, the former runningalong the East River, and the latter along the Hudsonor North River. The great Brooklyn ferries havetheir landings on the former street, while on Weststreet are the ferries which connect New York with theshores of New Jersey. Both are thronged throughoutthe day with a constant stream of heavily ladenwagons and trucks. Along the East River front arelong lines of sailing craft, from the huge Indiamandown to the little coasting sloop, and in the variousslips which break the line of South street the bargeswhich are brought down the Hudson from the ErieCanal have their headquarters. On West street arethe piers of the various railway lines terminating inJersey City and Hoboken, and here also are thewharves of the great European steamship lines. Eachstreet has its peculiar characteristics, but both are alikein the dirt and filth with which they are covered, theroar and crash of vehicles, and the difficulties whichbeset the pedestri

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