Word: 135th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...locked room at 455 East 135th Street, Manhattan, Uncle August Koehl, music teacher, composed a march for his nephew, entitled "Mitchel Field or Heaven...
...used to be? Sailors Snug Harbor, where a thousand old seamen find refuge and a little security after many storms; the Bowery Mission; the cheap, grudgingly-charitable men's hotel that Mr. Dreiser calls the "wayplace of the fallen;" old Samuel Clampitt's junkyard on 135th Street by the Harlem River, with its stuttering hunched proprietor who kept savage Great Danes in his yard-Mr. Dreiser can take you to them all and many other singular nooks beside. A guide who has had extraordinary opportunities for observing every changing aspect of a great and diverse city for more...
Street cars in New York make nine miles an hour; those of London, ten. Though the speed limit of New York is 15 miles to London's 12, New York motor buses run at five miles between 31st and 72nd Streets; between 57th and 135th Streets at 11 miles. In London buses do seven miles per hour in the Strand and ten miles on "the comparatively empty" Bayswater Road...