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New York City | ==Description== | ||
The New York City building in it's design is suggestive of the city hall in Greater New York. | |||
Among the exhibits in the New York City building is the topographical map of Greater New York which was shown at the Paris exposition. | |||
Two aluminum models of the Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridges, with two cross sections of the powerful cables that support those adorn each side of the big map. | |||
The department of street cleaning of New York is represented on a large and attractive scale. One of its great attractions is a working model of an incinerating plant in use at the foot of Forty-seventh street and the Hudson river. This model, with all its machinery in motion, show how all dry refuse is disposed of with profit to the metropolis of $130,000 a year, besides obtaining light and heat for the plant, and several of the department buildings in the immediate neighborhood. | |||
There is also a model of the new underground rapid transit railway. | |||
To the left of the building are models of some of New York's great public buildings. | |||
The aqueduct and the water supply departments give a very large exhibit as to how people of the great city obtain their water supply. | |||
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Latest revision as of 23:26, 25 November 2022
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| Location | Model City |
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| No. of Buildings | 1 |
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| Construction Cost | $86,500 ($2.61 million in 2021) |
Description[edit | edit source]
The New York City building in it's design is suggestive of the city hall in Greater New York. Among the exhibits in the New York City building is the topographical map of Greater New York which was shown at the Paris exposition.
Two aluminum models of the Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridges, with two cross sections of the powerful cables that support those adorn each side of the big map.
The department of street cleaning of New York is represented on a large and attractive scale. One of its great attractions is a working model of an incinerating plant in use at the foot of Forty-seventh street and the Hudson river. This model, with all its machinery in motion, show how all dry refuse is disposed of with profit to the metropolis of $130,000 a year, besides obtaining light and heat for the plant, and several of the department buildings in the immediate neighborhood.
There is also a model of the new underground rapid transit railway.
To the left of the building are models of some of New York's great public buildings.
The aqueduct and the water supply departments give a very large exhibit as to how people of the great city obtain their water supply.
