I Do Not In The Least Doubt That They Will Occupy It
All, And That 154th Street Will Find Itself Too Narrow A Boundary
For The Population.
I have said that there was some good architectural effect in New
York, and I alluded chiefly to that of the Fifth Avenue.
The Fifth
Avenue is the Belgrave Square, the Park Lane, and the Pall Mall of
New York. It is certainly a very fine street. The houses in it
are magnificent - not having that aristocratic look which some of
our detached London residences enjoy, or the palatial appearance of
an old-fashioned hotel in Paris, but an air of comfortable luxury
and commercial wealth which is not excelled by the best houses of
any other town that I know. They are houses, not hotels or
palaces; but they are very roomy houses, with every luxury that
complete finish can give them. Many of them cover large spaces of
the ground, and their rent will sometimes go up as high as 800
pounds and 1000 pounds a year. Generally the best of these houses
are owned by those who live in them, and rent is not, therefore,
paid. But this is not always the case, and the sums named above
may be taken as expressing their value. In England a man should
have a very large income indeed who could afford to pay 1000 pounds
a year for his house in London. Such a one would as a matter of
course have an establishment in the country, and be an earl, or a
duke, or a millionaire.
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