Identifier: appletonsillustr00newy (find matches)
Title: Appleton's illustrated hand-book of American cities;
Year: 1876 (1870s)
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Subjects: Cities and towns
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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here excellent taHe-dhote dinners may be got from 5 to 6 p. m., forfrom 75 c. to $1, the latter price usually including wine ; of these we may mentionPhillippes, 19 University Place ; Jacqueses, 54 W. 11th St.; University Hotel, Univer-sity Place—all near Broadway. There are English chop-houses, so called, where afirst-rate grill may be obtained, of which Old Torn^s,^ Thames St. (near rear cfTrinity Church), Farrishs, 64 John St., Blacks (Manhattan Lunch), 493 Broadway,and the Be Soto, Bleecker St., just E. of Broadway, are noted. The most prominent city Clubs are the Century, 109 E. 15th St.; the KnicTcer-hocker, 249 5th Avenue; the Manhattan, 96 5tli Avenue; the Union League, cor.Madison Avenue and E. 26th St. ; the Travelers, 222 5th Avenue ; the Union, cor.oth Avenue and W. 21st St.; the Germanic, W. 42d St. ; and the Lotos, in IrvingPlace. Admission to these is obtained only by introduction by a member. Depots.—The Grand Central Depot, in 42d St., between 4th and Madison Ave-
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Grand Central Depot. nnes, is the largest and finest in the country, and is used by most passenger-trainsof the Xew York Central and Hudson R. K., and by the Xew York and Harlemand Xew Y^ork and Xew Haven Railroads. It is built of brick, stone, and iron,and cost nearly $2,250,000. It is 692 ft. long, and 240 ft. wide, and is surmounted 8 HAND-BOOK OF AMERICAN CITIES. by several Louvre domes. It covers 66^ city lots, and, besides containing waiting-and baggage rooms and offices, admits 150 cars. The depot of the PennsylvaniaB. R. is reached by ferries from foot of Desbrosses and Cortlandt Sts.; the Uriefrom foot of Chambers and of 23d Sts.; the Midland^ same as Pennsylvania; theMorris & Essex from Barclay and Christopher Sts.; the Jersey Central from footof Liberty St.; the Long Island from James Slip and 34th St.; the South Sidefrom Koosevelt and Grand Sts.; and the FlusMng from James Slip. Modes of Conveyauce.—Within the city proper are omnibuses^ hackney and liverycoaches, hor

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