Gotham's greater rotten row :
Peter B. Sweeny's project for a splendid public pleasure ground for lovers of the horse and the horse himself : a grand terrace on the West Side : two and one-half miles of magnificient driveway along the shore of the Hudson, between Seventy-second and Ninety-eighth Streets, west of the New York Central Railroad and Riverside Park, with the reasons that make the scheme feasible in the near future : interviews with Messrs. Coleman ... Russell Sage, Mayor Grant ... and Peter B. Sweeny : preamble and resolution of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment : the growth of the city.

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Durst, Seymour B., 1913-1995, former owner.
Coleman, Michael.
Sweeny, Peter B. (Peter Barr), 1825-1911.
New York (N.Y.). Board of Estimate and Apportionment.
Municipal Improvement Association (New York, N.Y.)

Language(s)

English

Published

[New York] : Municipal Improvement Association, 1890

Subjects

Sweeny, Peter B. > Sweeny, Peter B. / (Peter Barr), > Sweeny, Peter B. / (Peter Barr), / 1825-1911.
New York Central Railroad Company.
Waterfronts > Waterfronts / New York (State) > Waterfronts / New York (State) / New York.
Roads > Roads / New York (State) > Roads / New York (State) / New York.
Parks > Parks / New York (State) > Parks / New York (State) / New York.
New York (N.Y.) > New York (N.Y.) / Politics and government > New York (N.Y.) / Politics and government / To 1898.
Upper West Side (New York, N.Y.)
Riverside Park (New York, N.Y.)

Note

Avery Classics (Offsite) copy: Has Seymour B. Durst's bookplate.
Avery Classics (Offsite) copy: Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

Physical Description

80 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

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