Wood's Illustrated Hand-Book to New York and Environs; A Guide for the Traveller or Resident ... (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ... marts. Third avenue, and the easterly avenues, are more or less of this description, but not much visited by the higher classes. Eighth avenue may be classed with Fourth avenue in its character. Second avenue is a highly respectable avenue for most of its length, and a portion of it is elegant and aristocratic but not fashionable. The streets up town run at right angles with the avenues and are easily accessible by horse-cars, as they all cross Broadway and Fifth avenue. The irregular streets can be most easily found by referring to the map. In the lower part of the city the streets are very irregular. A traveller in 1806 remarks in a letter to a friend--" I am perplexed to find my way through the crooked streets. The houses appear to be huddled together like trees in a forest. When I think I am travelling in the road I wish to go, I frequently find myself in one which runs in a contrary direction." Baths. Electric, Sun, Turkish, and other baths, 61 Lexington avenue. Russian Yapor Baths, 25 E. 14th street.. Public Free Baths. Foot of Charles street, North River. Foot of Fifth street, East River. Open, under very carefully printed rules and regulations, for males on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, from 5 A.m. to 9 P.m., and on Sundays from 5 A.m. to 12 M. For females on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, from 5 A.m. till 9 P.m. Banks. Bank of Commerce, Nassau, corner Cedar street. American Exchange Bank, 128 Broadway. For other banks, of which there are a large number, see City Register, in New York Directory. Board of Underwriters (Marine), 49 Broadway. Bar Association, 20 West 27th street. Committee of the Labor Exchange Office, Castle Garden. Confectioneries. The best are scattered along Broadway, above Canal street. Prices generally uniform...