886            THE ICONOGRAPHY OF MANHATTAN ISLAND

took part.    The building was begun on November lo, 1902, and was completed and opened
to the public on May 23, 1911.

The Library occupies the site of the old Croton distributing reservoir, between 40th
and 42d Streets, Fifth Avenue and Bryant Park, Upon the completion of the new library,
the buildings of the Astor Library, in Lafayette Place, and the Lenox Library on Fifth
Avenue, between 70th and 71st Streets, were abandoned.
 

A. Plate 31

[View of New York from tbe East River, with the Battleship "New York"]
Photograph.                                                                                Date depicted: Copy-

Owner: N. Y. PubHc Library.                                                      right   1917   by   E,

Moller, Jr.

This spirited photograph shows New York at the time of the entry of the United States
into the great European war. The Woolworth and Municipal Buildings here appear for
the first time.