Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0199Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is an aerial view of Manhattan. Above the image "T42 (Star)" is printed, below the image "32275T "The Forest of Manhattan" - Skyscrapers of Lower New York seen ver the City of Brooklyn." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
32275
"THE FOREST OF MANHATTAN" - SKYSCRAPERS OF NEW YORK VIEWED FROM BROOKLYN
From whatever direction see, - up the Bay from Sataen Island or Governor's Island, eastward across the North River from the Jersey shore, or westward from Brooklyn across the East River, - "the forest of Manhattan" is the most amazing sight of its kind in the world. Its towering buildings, in many different styles of architecture, seem to crowd the narrow tongue of land on which they stand like a throng of giants striving to push one another off into the surrounding waters. Yet in the majesty of their height and strength a strange beauty exists which is indescribably impressive. The observer is conscious of the vast crowds of human beings that swarm in these mighty structures, of the multitude of their tasks, and of the influence which their activites exert upon dwellers in every quarter of the globe. For New York today is the financial center of the world and its buisness interests are powerful in every market and industry.
Only a short time will elaspse before the skyline of New York upon which we are looking will be radically changed, becoming even more majestic and awe-inspiring than it is now. In 1929 building permits were issued for no less than twenty business structures exceeding in height any which now stand in the city. Some of these buildings will rise more than one thousand feet into the air.
Brooklyn is now the most populous borough of Greater New York, having 2,342,781 inhabitants in 1929, while Manhattan had only 1,689,419; a decrease of 641,105 since 1910. The decrease in Manhattan has resulted from the tendency of people to take advantage of improved transportation facilities by moving out to less congested boroughs.
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