Category: Travel Writing
There is a fashion nowadays of trimming the fronts of brick houses by placing black bricks among the red in such a way as to form odd and unique designs. It is an attractive way of doing, for it varies the staid simplicity of the solid color. But for all it may seem original a...
There is little of old-time picturesqueness in the city of New York to-day, where buildings are too towering, too massive, too thickly clustered to offer artistic and unique eff...
1. Chapter 1There is a fashion nowadays of trimming the fronts of brick houses by placing black bricks among the red in such a way as to form odd and unique designs. It is an attractive way...
9. Chapter 9A bustling, energetic, but provincial city was New York between the years 1830 and 1840, the last days of the Knickerbockers. After 1840 it changed greatly, speeding rapidly on...
2. Chapter 2When William Bradford came to New York, in 1693, the town had grown so large that it must needs have a night-watch--four men who each carried a lantern, and who, strolling throu...
3. Chapter 3In the far down-town business section of New York, there is a street so short that you can walk its entire length in ten minutes or less time. It leads from the park where the C...
8. Chapter 8When New York was a much younger city than it is, when it was well within bounds on the lower part of the island of Manhattan, long before there was a thought that it would over...
11. Chapter 11Looking backward to the days before the Civil War is to bring into review a host of men who then walked through the city in which time has wrought so many changes, and to bring...
10. Chapter 10Like many a landed estate, like many a quiet village, like many a battle-ground, like many a winding and historic road, like so many other places of interest of which the island...
7. Chapter 7In that cheerless precinct of New York City to which still clings the name St. John's Park, though there has been no park there this half-century,--in Beach Street, a dozen or p...
4. Chapter 4The city then lay between the park (a name that had just been bestowed upon the Common of old) and the Battery; with Broadway, the main thoroughfare of the town, sending out ten...
6. Chapter 6In the summer of 1797, a tall, well-built lad with a face showing just a suggestion of melancholy, landed from the weekly market sloop and walked along the streets of New York f...
5. Chapter 5Stretching from Broadway towards the east, starting from the ivy-covered walls of the Chapel of St. Paul--here lay the scenes of Washington Irving's childhood. Golden Hill was t...