Fifth Avenue

The Shadow of the Knickerbockers--An Old-time Map--The Beginnings of the Avenue--Watering Place Life--The Beach at Rockaway--Coney Island--Newspapers in the Thirties--Early Day...

Stretches of the Avenue--The Stretch of Tradition--Washington Arch--Old Homes and Gardens--The Mews and MacDougal Alley--In the Fourth Decade--A Genial Ruffian of the Olden Time...

A Knickerbocker Pepys--The Span of a Life--A Man of Many Responsibilities--Storm and Stress--Political Protestations--Hone and the Journalists--Contemporary Impressions of Bryan...

Glimpses of the Sixties--At the "Sign of the Buck-horn"--Madison Square in Civil War Times--A Contemporary Chronicler--Mushroom Fortunes--Foreign Adventurers--Filling the Ballro...

Stretches of the Avenue--Fourteenth to Madison Square--From Brevoort to Spingler--The Story of Sir Peter Warren--The First City Hospital--The Paternoster Row of New-York--Former...

Some Great Days on the Avenue--Pictures and Pageants--When a Prince Came Visiting--A Regiment Departs--Honour to the Captains--Funeral Processions--Receptions--Dinners--The Orie...

Some Avenue Clubs in the Early Days--The Invention of the Club--Cato or Dr. Johnson?--The Judgment of Thackeray--The Union--The Prolific Diedrich Knickerbocker--Omens of 1836--T...

Literary Landmarks and Figures--A Vision of Pall Mall--The Paris of the Forties--Mark Twain's Fifth Avenue Home--In the Time of Poe--Where Henry James was Born--The Old Universi...

Fifth Avenue in Fiction--Pages of Romance--The Henry James Heroes and Heroines--George William Curtiss's "Prue and I"--Edgar Fawcett and Edgar Saltus--The "Big Four" of Archibal...

Trails of Bohemia--The Avenue and its Tributaries--The "Musketeers of the Brush"--The Voice of the Ghetto--South Fifth Avenue and the Old French Quarter--The Garibaldi--"A la Vi...

Stretches of the Avenue--Murray Hill: a Slope in Transition--Early Astor Land Purchases--The Brunswick Building--A Deserted Clubland--Churches of the Stretch--The Marble Collegi...

After all, it was a hoary-haired scoundrel of a bus; a very reprobate of a bus; an envious, evil-thinking, ill-conditioned, flagrantly thieving, knavish blackguard of a bus. Und...

A Post-Knickerbocker Petronius--The Early Life of Mr. Ward McAllister--A Discovery of Europe--A Glimpse of British High Life--The Judgment of a Diplomat--The South and Newport--...

Stretches of the Avenue--The Crest of Murray Hill--The House of "Sarsaparilla" Townsend--A.T. Stewart's Italian Palace--The Knickerbocker Trust Company--The Coventry Waddell Man...

Giant Strides of Commerce--The Reasoning of M. Honoré de Balzac--The Aristocracy of Trade--The Story of a New York Shop--When Fifth Avenue Began to Rival Bond Street and the Rue...

Stretches of the Avenue--The Public Library--Temple Emanuel--The Draft Riots--The Coloured Orphan Asylum--The Willow Tree Inn--Remaining Residences--Clubs of the Section--As See...

Stretches of the Avenue--Approaching the Plaza--The Great Hotels--Old St. Luke's Hospital--"Marble Row"--Some Reminiscences of Mr. John D. Crimmins--Men and Manners of Sixty Yea...

Here and there in the Island, far to the north, may be found an unblasted rock on the top of which is perched an unpainted shanty with a crude chimney spout from which smoke iss...

Mine Host on the Avenue--A Gentleman of Brussels--Poulard's--Some Old New York Hotels--High Prices of 1836--The American--The Metropolitan--Holt's--The Brevoort and the Steamshi...