New York city guide; a comprehensive guide to the five boroughs of the metropolis: Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Richmond PDF
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NEW YORK CITY GUIDE From the collection ofthe n m o Prelinger a i LJibrary P t San Francisco, California 2006 NEW YORK CITY GUIDE AMERICAN GUIDE SERIES This volume is sponsored by THE GUILDS' COMMITTEE FOR FEDERAL WRITERS' PUBLICATIONS, INC. FRANKLIN P. ADAMS, President BRUCE BLIVEN, Vice-President MORRIS L. ERNST, Secretary and Treasurer HERSCHEL BRICKELL ROCKWELL KENT VAN WYCK BROOKS ALFRED KREYMBORG HENRY S. CANBY Louis KRONENBERGER MALCOLM COWLEY BURNS MANTLE JOHN ERSKINE BURTON RASCOE CLIFTON FADIMAN RALPH THOMPSON LEWIS GANNETT JOSEPH B. ULLMAN TRAVIS HOKE IRITA VAN DOREN MARK VAN DOREN AMERICAN GUIDE SERIES NEW YORK CITY GUIDE A Comprehensive Guide to the Five Boroughs of the Metropolis Manhat- tan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Richmond Prepared by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Prog- ress Administration in New York City RANDOM HOUSE NEW YORK PUBLISHERS - - COPYRIGHT 1939 BY THE GUILDS' COMMITTEE FOR FEDERAL WRITERS' PUBLICATIONS, INC. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION FRANCIS C. HARRINGTON, Administrator FLORENCE S. KERR, Assistant Administrator HENRY G. ALSBERG, Director of Federal Writers' Project HAROLD STRAUSS, Director of Federal Writers' Project in New York City Preface IHIS volume is a detailed description of the communities and points of interest in all the five boroughs of New York City. It attempts, also, to in- dicatethehuman character ofthecity, to point out the evidence of achieve- ments and shortcomings, urban glamor as well as urban sordidness. It is intended to give both the permanent resident and the visitor an intimate, accurate knowledge of the metropolis. The New York City Guide is the companion volume to New York Panorama and is sponsored and published under the same auspices. The two are planned to complement one another. New York Panorama draws a large-scale interpretation of the city's life and history; the New York City Guide describes the component portions of the city. The Guide represents a collective effort of employees of the Federal Writers' Project. They have been assisted by the suggestions and criticism of many distinguished authorities. The risk of error and omission always considerable in a work of this nature, despite every precaution is slightly increased by the fact that responsible authorities sometimes disagree. More serious is the problem of keeping pace, in print, with a dynamic metropo- lis that overnight replaces a century-old institution with a new triumph in modernity. Thanks must be given to the hundreds of consultants and experts who We generously contributed their advice. are especially indebted to the Weyhe Gallery and the individual artists for permission to reproduce many prints, and to the Federal Art Project for photographs, prints, and art We work. are grateful, also, for the editorial assistance of the national office of the Federal Writers' Project, and of Harry L. Shaw, Jr., former Director of the Federal Writers' Project in New York City. The opinions expressed in this book are the opinions of the writers and the editors and are not necessarily shared by the consultants, by the spon- sors of the volume, or by the Works Progress Administration. EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE NEW YORK CITY GUIDE Lou GODY Editor-in-Chief: Editors: CHESTER D. HARVEY, JAMES REED Editorial Assistants: JAMES BEN. ALLEN, JOHN CHEEVER, HENRY FAGIN, A. BENJAMIN KAUFMAN The productionofthis volumewould nothavebeen possiblewith- out the help of many other staff members of the Federal Writers' Project in New York City the writers, research workers, check- ers, cartographers, the clerical and technical assistants. Among them were Frances Adams, Eugene Burdock, Alexis Chern, Flor- ence Comeld, Samuel Cummings, Irving L. Fishman, Robert Friend, William Garber, Bip Hanson, John Harms, Lillian Krut- man, Anthony Netboy, Leba Presner, William S. Rollins, Fred Rothermell, Melvin Shelley, Percy Shostac, Herman Spector, Fred Vigman, Clarence Weinstock, Ruth Widen, Charlotte Wilder, Richard Wright, and Gabriel Zakin.
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