The Tombs Prison at Centre Street.

Herald Square. 34th Street - 6th Avenue. The noisiest and most busiest spot in the city, where thousands of shoppers pass daily.

Above the rooftops. 41st floor, 41st Street. Looking toward the East River. Williamsburg Bridge in the distance.

The Monarch of Bermuda leaving her pier at West 55th Street, Hudson River.

"S.S. American Legion." Outward bound - opposite 23rd Street.

Washington Arch. 5th Avenue - 8th Street. Where 5th Avenue begins at 8th Street. Completed in 1893.

The Actor's Church. 29th Street - near 5th Avenue. Known as the "Little Church Around the Corner." Church of the Transfiguration.

The Cuxa Cloister by moonlight. Built in the XII Century. Was the monastery of St. Michael, Spain.

Fashionable Park Avenue, north from 46th Street. Street of fabulous wealth and tall apartment hotels.

The last stand of the antique carriages of the "Golden Nineties", a strange sight among New York's smart motor traffic.

Lower N.Y. skyline. East of the Hudson.

Wall Street. West from William Street. A wall for defense was erected 1625 by the Dutch, hence its name.

These caves were the homes of the first inhabitants on Manhattan Island. Inwood Park.

The beauty of modern setback architecture is strikingly shown in this photograph of the Squibb & N.Y. Trust Co. buildings at 57th Street and 5th Avenue.

"Power." Power house, Harlem River, 201st Street.

Relics of old New York. At Battery Place. Homes of Greeks and Syrians.

"From the Paramount Building." 43rd Street - Broadway. Looking northeast from 45th to 60th streets. Radio City not erected.

Joan of Arc, at the height of her glory leading her troops in the siege of Orleans. Riverside Drive at 93rd Street.

Jewish cemetery at Bowery near Chatham Square. First Jewish cemetery in the U.S. 1656.

Bridge of Sighs. Tombs Prison. Centre Street.

"Cornell Medical Center." York Avenue, 68th Street.

"New York City Museum." 103rd Street - 5th Avenue. Contains records of the growth, past history, customs and exhibits of the city.

Skyscrapers from Staten Island Ferry.

Washington Mews. 8th Street, University Place. Converted stables now the homes of artists and writers.

"Grand Central Zone." From the Paramount Building. All of these tall buildings have practically been erected in the past 6 years.