NEW YORK SKETCHES

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On the Harlem River—University Heights from Fort George.

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NEW YORK SKETCHES
BY

JESSE LYNCH WILLIAMS

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK 1902

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Copyright, 1902, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Published, November, 1902
Trow Directory
Printing & Bookbinding Company
New York

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TO

Meade Creighton Williams

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CONTENTS

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The Water-Front1
The Walk Up-Town27
The Cross Streets63
Rural New York City99

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ILLUSTRATIONS

On the Harlem River—University Heights from Fort GeorgeFrontispiece
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Grant's Tomb and Riverside Drive (from the New Jersey Shore)3
Down along the Battery sea-wall is the place to watch the ships go by5
Old New Amsterdam7
Just as it has been for years. (Between South Ferry and the Bridge.)
New New York9
Not a stone's throw farther up ... the towering white city of the new century. (Between South Ferry and the Bridge.)
From the point of view of the Jersey commuter ... some uncommon, weird effects11
(Looking back at Manhattan from a North River ferry-boat.)
Swooping silently, confidently across from one city to the
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