Page 122 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide - New York City

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Street by Street: 1. Madison Square
Gramercy Park The Knickerbocker Club played
baseball here in the 1840s and
was the first to codify the
Gramercy Park and nearby Madison Square tell game’s rules. Today, office
a tale of two cities. Madison Square is ringed by workers enjoy the park’s
offices and traffic and is used mainly by those many statues of
19th-century figures,
who work nearby, but the fine surrounding among them Civil
commercial architecture and statues make it War hero Admiral
well worth visiting. It was once the home of David Farragut.
Stanford White’s famous pleasure palace, the
old Madison Square Garden, a place where E
revelers always thronged. Gramercy Park, N U
meanwhile, retains the air of dignified tranquility Statue of William H Seward E
it has long been known for. Here, the residences in Madison Square Garden N A V
and clubs remain, set around New York’s last 23rd Street subway S O
private park, for which only those (lines N, R) D I
who live on the square have keys. M A

A sidewalk clock found in
front of 200 Fifth Avenue M A D I S O N
marks the very end of the S Q U A R E
once-fashionable shopping
area, known as Ladies’ Mile.
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5. Flatiron Building E
The triangle made by Fifth D I
Avenue, Broadway, and 22nd A E
Street is the site of one of ( L N U
New York’s most famous early A Y E
skyscrapers. When it was built K A V
in 1903, the flatiron was the D W
world’s tallest building. A R
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6 Ladies’ Mile
Broadway from
Union Square
to Madison Square
was once New York’s E 1 9 T H S T R E E T
finest shopping area.
7 Theodore
Roosevelt Birthplace
The house is a replica
of the one in which E
the 26th American L A C
president was born. E 1 7 T H S T R E E T G P
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8 National Arts Club V I
This is a private club for R
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the arts, on the south
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