Excerpt from Glimpses of New York: An Illustrated Handbook of the City, Together With Notes on the Electric Industry Therein and Thereabout To the members of the National Electric Light Association, in convention assembled, May 30, 191 1, this little Edison Baedeker of New York is respect fully dedicated. In it, we shall try to show you our city - to us the most fascinating in the world. We love its sky scrapers and its tenements, its high finance and its subways, its fitful strivings after the good and the beautiful. The Great White Way and the little side streets, the polyglot speech of new peoples that throng our streets; Splendor, squalor, commercial ism, humanity, these are all New York. And if in showing you our city, we can't help seeing electricity as the motive power of it all, you must pardon us; we are personally prejudiced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.