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In the Driftway
July 31, 1929 issue

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The Merchants' Association put its question, what are the ten most beautiful things in New York City. There was considerable repetition in answers by a number of New Yorkers of prominence. There is a common tendency to name the subway system, the railway terminals, the East River bridges, the Stock Exchange, the Holland Tunnel, and the Woolworth Building. A good many of those responding to the question cited various views, usually containing skyscrapers, and some named objects of beauty without reference to their size or uniqueness. But if one is to follow the analogy of the Seven Wonders of ancients in naming a similar list for New York City, beauty cannot be the only, or indeed the chief, criterion.

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CITIES & towns; STOCK exchanges; SKYSCRAPERS; SUBWAYS; NEW York (N.Y.); NEW York (State); UNITED States
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