Sinópse: Excerpt from Fifth Avenue: Glances at the Vicissitudes and Romance of a World Renowned Thoroughfare, Together With Many Rare Illustrations That Bring Back an Interesting Past From 6oth to 9oth Streets is the line of beautiful residences popularly known as Millionaires’ Row. This mile and a half of Avenue – probably the most valuable residential section on the globe – has a total assessed valuation of Protected here on one side by Central Park, the Avenue seems to offer effectual resistance to business. Onward from Carnegie Hill, at 91st Street, the Avenue rapidly degenerates into a tenement section with many open lots, fenced with billboards, and with saloons and refreshment stands on some of the corners. Beyond Mount Morris Park (l2oth to 124th Streets) for several blocks it rises to the dignity of small brownstone or brick dwell ings, but quickly drops to the tenement level again. From 127th to 139th Streets it swarms with foreigners and negroes. Beyond, the Avenue loses its identity in a rutted dirt road bordered by unsightly open lots, until, at 143rd Street, it comes to a degenerate end in the slimy waters of the Harlem River. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.