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and Thirtieth The building Avenues. times eight, higher, ten, and in this midtown the section old-time has twelve story lofts, some- wich Stree completely revolutionized 'conditions of that locality. the aspect of and these loft buildings have a front- appl may Most of fifty feet or more. In Twenty-sev- Ave- enth the improvements have been nine par- age Street, from Fifth to Seventh ticularly nue, noticeable, no less than street, Still lofts being erected on that entire which great including the largest one in that 175 feet, giver rom 119 to 133 West Twenty-seventh section, occupying a frontage of stove Beek Street. In Twenty-fifth Street, between these new there are seven of these WO avenues, the largest including ton, loft numbers improvements, from 45 to 57. Twenty- fifty new sixth the Street has five new lofts, including 43 first one West Twenty-sixth Street. In Twenty- a of a 100-foot frontage from 37 to lease was ninth Street, west of Sixth Avenue, is 100-foot loft. while at 5 to, 7 East it W stov Thirty-first new Street and running another through enor- the to Thirty-second addition to the Street, commercial is develop- Sixth mous of this quarter. The demand for lv on trat practically all of the new buildings ment business homes here has been SO great in th The have been filled, as the saying goes, be- more fore they are.completed. Hence this loft mav section, as it has been termed, has been ing C unusually active in real estate changes, of th ness development have been snatched up and most of the desirable plots for busi- only comm by far-sighted speculators or investors. but "TI New Woolen Centre. of the at all To the east of this highly active sec- man tion there has been a development equally both as notable in the sudden transformation out-of cessib of Fourth Avenue into a high-class busi- ment ness district. Here, the woolen trade has exert established a new centre, a big uptown avail move from Leonard and zlin Stree S of-to time

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This file contains poems and letters dedicated to Robert Peary and the 1909 expedition to the North Pole. Also included are poems relating to Frederick Cook and his claim of reaching the North Pole first.

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