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How to Have a Good Time in and About New York: A Complete Alphabetically Arranged Guide to All Places of Interest, Amusement, Resorts, Etc;, In and ... to Get There, and Prices; Together With Time
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Paperback. Forgotten Books 2015-09-27.
ISBN 9781332141579
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Excerpt from How to Have a Good Time in and About New York: A Complete Alphabetically Arranged Guide to All Places of Interest, Amusement, Resorts, Etc;, In and About New York City, Giving Brief Descriptions, Locations, How to Get There, and Prices; Together With Time-Tables of Railroads and Excursion Steamers
Albany and Troy Boats. - A trip up the romantic Hudson River will gratify those who like to look on the beauties of nature. The Day Line steamer Albany or D. Drew, for Albany, leave daily (except Sundays) Fulton Street, Brooklyn, (by annex) 8 A.M.; Vestry Street Pier, New York, 8:40 A. M.; West 22d Street Pier, New York, 9 A. M. "People's Line, " for Albany, leave Pier 41 N. R., foot of Canal Street, every week day at 6 P.M., connecting with all points North and West. Troy Boats. - "Citizens' Line" leave Pier 44 N. R., foot of Christopher Street, daily except Saturday, at 6 P.M. Sunday steamer touches at Albany. For further information see time tables in back of this book.
Art Galleries. - Most of these are closed in Summer, but at * any of the galleries of dealers there are always pictures well worth seeing. The Metropolitan Museum or Art, in Central Park, opposite Fifth Avenue, near 83d Street, is well worth a visit. Lenox Library, East side Fifth Avenue, between 70th and 71st Street, contains a fine collection of works of art by American and foreign artists. The New York Historical Society, corner Second Avenue and East 11th Street, has an excellent collection of portraits. The American Art Gallery, No. G East 23d Street, generally has a fine exhibition of pictures by living American painters. At the Art Union, 44 East 14th Street, there is a permanent exhibition. We would recommend the visitor interested in art to visit the galleries of the following prominent dealers: Knoedler & Co., (Goupil's) corner Fifth Avenue and 22d Street; Schaus & Co., Broadway, opposite Astor Place; Avery's, 88 Fifth Avenue; Cottiers' Art Rooms, 144 Fifth Avenue; Matthew's, 12 East 23d Street; Kohn's 165 Fifth Avenue; and Sarony's photograph gallery, 3? Union Square, which contains handsomely fitted up rooms filled with bric-a-brac and good paintings in oil and water colors.
Artistic Furniture Warerooms. - A number of these are well worth visiting, being in themselves really museums of beautiful objects. In these can be seen productions of the various schools of design, such as the Gothic, Queen Ann and Renaissance. The principal houses in New York are Pottier & Stymus, Fifth Avenue and 42d Street; Chatain, 23d Street near Fifth Avenue; Marcotte & Co., Fifth Avenue corner 31st Street; Herter Bros., corner Fifth Avenue and 20th Street; Hess & Co., Broadway, near 18th Street; Herts Bros., 806 Broadway; Roux & Co., 133 Fifth Avenue, and Solomon's Sons, 29 Union Square.
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