Identifier: newnewyorkcomme00vand (find matches)
Title: The new New York : a commentary on the place and the people
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932 Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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CHAPTER VIII ANCIENT LANDMARKS There is still a further objection urged to the sky-scraper upbuilding of the new city. It requires a tearingdown of the old city; and against that there are alwaysvoices enough to cry out in protest. Not that there is anygreat value, aesthetic or otherwise, to the old ; but, becauseit has become familiar, and has perhaps some pleasantassociations connected with it, people would like to see itpreserved. Then, too, with the passing of the old build-ings history loses its landmarks. We can no longer tellwhere Wouter Van Twiller smoked the pipe of peace, orPeter Stuyvesant pounded his wooden leg on the floorwith wrath, or where stood the Collect Pond with theisland in the middle of it, or where ran the Dutch wallfrom which Wall Street derived its name. Mr. James saysthat on his last visit here he could not even find thehouses where certain celebrated men—poets, painters, andthe like — were born, and which he knew as a boy ! Hethinks the spots should hav

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